Both Congress and the FBI are now investigating a string of deaths and disappearances among top scientists with links to U.S. nuclear or space research programs.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said it would conduct a probe into the killings or vanishings of around 10 researchers who worked on sensitive subjects from nuclear fusion to through advanced metallurgy to UFOs.
“We’re very concerned about this. This is a national security concern,” committee chair James Comer of Kentucky told Fox & Friends Sunday night.
“This would suggest that something sinister may be happening… hopefully, with our bully pulpit, we can maybe bring attention to this and have anyone that knows of any information out there contact Congress.”
The FBI told Newsweek Monday that the agency was “spearheading the effort to look for connections” among the incidents.
“We are working with the Department of Energy, Department of War, and with our state and state and local law enforcement partners to find answers,” the bureau said.
FBI Director Kash Patel said last week that the bureau would pull in evidence from all relevant organizations and then “look for connections” before sharing their findings with “the White House and the world.”
Among the incidents being investigated are the disappearance of retired Air Force general and sometime UFO consultant William Neil McCasland in New Mexico and the vanishing last year of former NASA scientist Monica Reza in the Angeles National Forest.
There is also Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a prominent MIT physics professor shot dead at his home near Boston in December, and Amy Catherine Eskridge, an anti-gravity researcher whose death at age 34 in 2022 was ruled a suicide.
Speculation by online influencers and commentators about a possible subterfuge campaign has been bubbling since McCasland was reported missing by his wife in early March.
But authorities have so far not confirmed any connection between the cases, and McCasland’s wife Susan McCasland Wilkerson pushed back on some of the “misinformation” being spread about him.
“It is true that when Neil was in the Air Force, he had access to some highly classified programs and information,” she said in a Facebook post. But that was 13 years ago, she said, and it “seems quite unlikely” that he would have been kidnapped to extract “very dated secrets.”
She added that he had no “special knowledge” of supposed alien bodies and wreckage from the 1947 Roswell crash, and that his “brief association” with UFO fans outside of government gave “no reason” for anyone to abduct him.
Asked about the cases by a reporter, President Donald Trump last week said it was “pretty serious stuff”, and that while he “hope[d] it is random”, his government would look into the matter.
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