Around a Dozen Scientists Have Died or Disappeared. What's Going On?

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(Rolling Stone) At least 11 U.S. scientists linked to U.S. nuclear and space research programs have died or vanished in recent years, prompting a federal investigation into a situation President Donald Trump called “pretty serious stuff.”

On April 20, the House Oversight Committee announced that it would look into the deaths and disappearances after committee chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) warned on Fox & Friends that “something sinister could be happening”. Comer said that at first he thought it was “some kind of crazy conspiracy theory,” but now he believes it could be a national security concern.

CNN reported that the FBI is leading efforts to find connections between the missing and deceased scientists and is working with the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and state and local law enforcement. NASA posted on X that the agency is “coordinating and cooperating with the relevant agencies in relation to the missing scientists,” but currently sees no national security threat.

Trump has slashed funding for science research in his second term, providing an opening for other countries to poach leading scientists. Could the missing researchers be part of a brain drain? Some GOP lawmakers seem to think so. Congressman Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) posted on X, “We are in competition with China, Russia, and Iran on nuclear technology, advanced weapons, and space. Meanwhile, our top scientists keep vanishing.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/around-dozen-scientists-died-disappeared-151546377.html

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1. Maybe it doesn't have to do with space or aliens

Maybe it has to do with a secret, deadly weapon that the US has developed. Just like the laser gun that Captain Kirk used only on a much larger scale. maybe these scientists were going to blow the lid off this project?

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2. Scary.

[FakeNoose]

3. More ...from the OP link

Questions about a possible sinister connection between the 11 deaths and disappearances began to emerge after William Neil McCasland, a 68-year-old former U.S. Air Force major general, was reported missing from his Albuquerque home by his wife on Feb. 27, 2026. McCasland left his prescription glasses, phone, and electronics behind; he is thought to have taken his .38 caliber revolver with him. Two months later, officials still can’t say where he went.

McCasland was the onetime commander of the Wright-Patterson base, central to the Roswell incident; his connection to UFO lore and classified space weapons programs fanned the flames of speculation sparked by a YouTuber named Daniel Liszt when he posted a video theorizing that a Portuguese physicist was assassinated because of his work in advanced fusion research. Nuno Gomes Loureiro, a renowned nuclear science professor, was shot and killed at his Massachusetts home in December 2025. He had recently been named director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

Liszt, who goes by the handle Dark Journalist, theorized that Loureiro’s work was “potentially so transformative, that if you get a real leg up in the research … then you become a sort of database that needs to be erased potentially.” He tied Loureiro’s murder to the deaths of other scientists who had worked in the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative program.

Right-wing influencer Jessica Reed Kraus wrote a Substack article in February that drew parallels between Loureiro’s death and that of astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, who was shot and killed outside his rural California home. In another post, she deemed McCasland’s disappearance a “Conspiracy Alert!” The Daily Mail kicked the story into high gear in March, reporting that the “mystery of five missing scientists sends [a] chill across America.”

We don't know that William Neil McCasland is dead ... only missing at this point.