UFOlogy is an extension of American Christianity and Doomsday Eschatology.
(Update 5.21.26) I was watching the full Jeffrey Epstein with Steve Bannon interview and to my surprise, Epstein talked about Los Alamos around 1 hours and 9 minutes. Jeffrey spoke about how he bought his property at Zorro Ranch to be near Los Alamos to take advantage of cuts at Los Alamos. He wanted to be closer to scientists, notably to support his work with the Santa Fe Institute, which is an institute was meant to study complex systems theory. Epstein in the interview even more to my surprise talked about Neoplatonism, alchemy, etc., which to me shows his interest in reconciling science with metaphysics or unexplained phenomena. He talked about souls a bit as well. Epstein to me, seems like a Jewish man interested in the essence of life notably because he believes in souls. I am not saying he is a Kabbalist, and I am also not trying to insinuate that Jewish people are the only ones interested in Esoteric endeavors – far from it, i.e., Masonry, Rosicrucianism, etc., are all anchored in Christianity and Islam even dabble in alchemy, etc., – but Epstein’s interests, seem partially influenced by Judaism such as “systems theory to figure out the name of God” or a Kabbala Tree of Life (a theme seen in the film Pi by Darren Aronofsky), etc.
Epstein was a man at the crossroads of espionage, high finance, scouting new technologies, courting the rich and being their fixer as far as finding women and children to meet the desires of the rich. Every aspect of his life seemed to feed the same goal of making himself seem indispensable either by having insider information, connections of vice, etc. Connections and information are king.
But this is interesting because I think the UFO and Missing Scientists situation is a distraction from the Epstein Files in part, in which he was likely scouting out new technology for Israel, no different than Robert Maxwell getting in trouble for taking intellectual property. But beyond pragmatic reasons, Epstein seems to have had metaphysical interests akin to something Kabbalistic. The Jews are still searching for their Messiah, and some sects seem to believe that science can be a way of convening with the divine (end addition 5.21.26)
First off the word “scientist” is being used loosely in this conspiracy. Allegedly about 11 to 13 scientists have died under mysterious circumstances, but…some aren’t mysterious at all.
The fact that someone is pushing this conspiracy and seems to be trying to make things seem more mysterious than they are is the mystery and conspiracy to me.
(Updated 5/11/26) However, as of 11 May 2026, I am seeing from outlets such as News Nation (a Nexstar station) that there are now “13” scientists who have disappeared or gone missing.
I repeat, the word scientist is being used too loosely here which to me is suspicious.
Not all of the 11 and now 13 people in the aerospace industry or who are “science enthusiasts” who have gone missing or died are scientists. Calling them scientists to me seems like a way of making more of a narrative than what is really there. The word is eye catching, but at least two were just administrative workers (the Los Alamos workers), another was a Venture Capitalist who did not have a Doctorate and not much public information such as academic citations regarding research (Amy Eskridge), and David Wilcock of Ancient Alien’s fame is not a scientists either, and frankly, could be considered a career conspiracy theorist. (End Update)
Other notable events going on now are the Iran War, the loss of public respect for the State of Israel over its handling of the Gaza Situation, the Epstein Scandal, general corruption and nepotism under Trump with his family, Palantir takeover of citizen data records, etc.
There are things this administration doesn’t want people to know or talk about and it seems UFOS are a convenient way to distract from what we as a society can control, which is making our politicians accountable, notably as the US hosts elections in May and November of 2026.
(Updated 5/11/26) The Los Alamos link to this “missing scientists narrative” to me sheds light possibly on the Epstein Case with Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. I am not saying these are connected but rather the missing scientists cases distracts from Zorro Ranch.
I am not hooked on my theory, but my theory here is that the media is wanting to distract from Zorro Ranch and the overall larger Epstein Case, by diverting attention away and towards this UFO/Missing Scientists story arc.
Epstein was known for his interests in zany science such as literally wanting breeding centers, obsessing over racial sciences (eugenics), etc. I don’t believe that Anthony Chavez or Melissa Casias had ties to Epstein, but it wouldn’t be a stretch to possibly look into it, such as possibility of Epstein trying to weasel his way into Los Alamos by corrupting lower level and financially desperate workers. Even if not a direct link between Chavez and Casias to Zorro Ranch, the truth is the media is not reporting as heavily as they could on a national level on Zorro Ranch in my opinion (End update).
Many of these scientists worked on project teams or programs. Killing one person on a project or program doesn’t seem to make sense if the goal is set back or damage the success of an effort. Some of the missing scientists were older, pushing or beyond their sixties, and they didn’t work in isolation. Their coworkers would have been aware of what they were doing, so why not take out an entire team?
The GEC Marconi Scientist deaths on the late 1980s seems more compelling because those scientists worked on a related singular program. This current Missing or Dead Scientists Case in the USA seems like a patch work of coincidence driven by America’s tendency to be mistrustful of government and our generalpropensity y for paranoia.
Some of these deaths are because of old age (Maiwald and Hicks), whereas others are potentially foul play (Reza), others are proven murder (Grillmair killed by a local druggie and Loureiro killed by a jealous fellow classmate), others were mental illness/suicide (Eskridge, Wilcock), and others seem totally unrelated to a plausible larger conspiracy but maybe a standalone conspiracy (Casias and Chavez).
However, there could be a link between Casias and Chavez within their own conspiracy at Los Alamos but unrelated to overarching “11 or 13” scientists’ case. For example, the Los Alamos workers could have fled for fear of being involved in theft of classified materials. Garcia at the Kanas City Nuclear Facility – New Mexico Office, and Casias and Chavez at Los Alamos, possibly could have been involved in theft, but I lean more to Garcias with this theory, whereas Chavez was old (already 78) and Casias was into outdoors sports such as hunting (so she could be hurt, missing, abducted, etc.).
I do think that investigators should look into the stolen property angle, however. It’s not uncommon. And, even possibly there could be Chinese or Mexican Cartel for the benefit of Chinese, Russia, or other foreign government targeting of federal employees to gain access to sensitive equipment. Garcia as you will see in his biography below would have been a highly prized target.
The only other conspiracy which seems plausible is the possible links between Air Force General William McCasland and Monica Reza, but sprinkling in these other cases seems to ironically muddle the revelation of a plausible conspiracy.
But this link between McCasland and Reza seems very weak because Reza was working with the Air Force Research Lab (ARFL) in 1999, but McCasland was working at Los Angeles AFB, spending three years as the Chief Engineer of the Navstar GPS Joint Program Office, the controlling authority for the Global Positioning System for government, commercial, and consumer applications. McCasland wasn’t posted to Wright Patterson AFB until 2011 and he retired in 2013. [Source: https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/104776/major-general-william-n-mccasland/].
A lot of people have no clue about government or the military.
To them all they know is Hollywood and TV depictions. The government is not as exciting as what people seem to believe and it is not as nefarious, despite the classified dealings of the CIA, FBI, DOJ, and State Department. All other agencies are pretty innocuous.
You literally have grumpy anti government Republicans working in government agencies and collecting checks. Simply because the ARFL sounds cool doesn’t mean every project or program there is Top Secret. Wright Patterson AFB is in important base as far as pushing USAF commercial efforts because it is home to the Air Force Institute of Technology where it trains USAF office Program and Project Managers, but also home of USAF Material Command which oversees essentially procurement, life cycle contract management, installation management, sustainment, research,etc.
According to McCasland’s wife, she stated her husband had been retired for so long after his disappearance that any information he did have may have been not very useful.
Here is another article on McCasland: https://www.newsweek.com/mccasland-update-ex-fbi-agent-theory-missing-expert-11812428 (added 5.12.26).
Further, Maria Reza who patented an alloy metal…that patent can be found in the public domain.
Making all these deaths into a coherent and linear conspiracy may actually rob victims of justice.
This to me seems like a psychological operations and disinformation campaign by the current government (i.e., Trump) to encourage hope in the UFO believer community and the separate general “conspiracy theory” community.
There seems to be a multifaceted intentional “shell game” going on, or even an accidental overlap of two different story arcs based on mostly random events (in my opinion), with one story arc being that of UFOs (which I think may deal with developmental aircraft, drones, and hypersonic missiles to fulfill program objectives on programs such as Golden Dome, Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) and Dark Eagle [i.e., Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW),], etc.) Programs, and the other story arc being the Missing Scientists Story Arc which deals with possible DARPA and NASA experimental engine work (e.g., DRACO) with fuel sources based on nuclear power, plasma, etc.
However, there are lots of overlap between NASA and the DOD for obvious reasons (e.g., monitoring airspace, sending satellites into orbit, etc. ), so if we entertain the idea that these “conspiracies” are either purposeful and orchestrated conspiracies (i.e., nefarious – which I believe is doubtful overall), or, coincidental conspiracies that simply unveils actual, pragmatic and tangible US government defense programs, a plausible truth is both do overlap, since for example one intent of Golden Dome is to have Space Based Interceptors, which is similar to Ronald Reagan’s Brilliant Peebles Program under the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) aka Star Wars Program.
The Star Wars Program is linked to a noted conspiracy called the GEC Marconi Scientists Deaths and this current series of conspiracies as of 2026 are similar, in that A) someone is lazily copying the story arc of the GEC Marconi Deaths to be pranksters (trolls) or to truly divert attention from real sensitive projects, or B) there is no copying going on and this simply is a series of random events occurring in a high stress industry (e.g., if you look at any major program you may find correlations but they don’t necessarily mean anything) .
To me, these current conspiracies on UFOs and Missing Scientists simply reveal actual US programs relating to the Golden Dome Program, which is the ideological successor of the Star Wars Program, but it doesn’t mean that all the people included in these Deaths and Conspiracies are involved directly.
The conspiracies shed light on actual programs, but most of the people alleged to be in the conspiracies aren’t actually involved in anything (besides just having the title of scientists) and ironically, if diversion is the intent with these conspiracies, the conspiracies sheds more light on the motives and agendas of the USG (i.e., hypersonic dominance, Golden Dome, etc.). Better put, if diversion was the intention, it backfired hilariously, and now more people are aware of actual government programs based in reality, which increases the risks of leaks, whistleblowers, hacks, etc.
The “Missing or Dead Scientist” story arc, which to me are unrelated cases and/or unrelated clusters of cases, is being shaped by Right Leaning (Pro-Trump) media, e.g., NewsNation, NY Post, Will Cain of Fox News, etc., in order to make unrelated events seem linear and connected, but also there is also the “UFO Disclosure or Cover-Up” story arc, which overlaps the Missing or Dead Scientists. So, because of this overlap in story arcs – only linked loosely by the disappearance of General McCasland – the public is already off kilter when processing information. What to focus on? The goal it seems is to be able to make people “unfocused while appearing to be focused”, which can strain the senses, confuse, and even discourage people (though initially the goal was to excite people) as they mentally process a “fog of disorienting information”.
This fog of information theory interstingly touches upon General McCasland who is noted as suffering from a mental fog. It could be possible, McCasland was just like us. He was searching for truth but was being used on a diversion campaign where someone higher up was appropriating his achievements and credibility to misguide others. The realization of this betrayal, on top of age, and possible mental exhaustion at digging into conspiracies himself, may have caused him to break.
When analyzing all of this we have to understand that a lot of YouTube creators are incentivized to make videos that are eye-catching and on interesting subjects because they get paid, so as a result YouTube has been flooded with content relating to the Missing Scientists/UFO coverup story arcs.
This also includes the rise of “A.I. slop” videos where “entrepreneurial minds” farm content to hopefully make a quick buck. The monetization of information in this manner on mediums such as YouTube adds to the “postmodern condition” which is defined by informational overload, post-truth, subjectivity, irony, pastiche, etc.
Even if there is no truth to any of the UFO or Missing Scientists story arcs, the marketplace incentivizes the need for something to be true even if it is not, since the appetite of capitalist consumption, and the desperation of people to survive under capitalism, necessitates the needs for this contradiction.
As a result, the digital landscape creates a “solipsistic matrix” of chaos, tribalism, echo chambers, and intentional and coincidental diversion. Simply we put, making things up is just another way to make money or push the “market” along. For example, how many commercials are being shown during this “expose or deep dive” videos? Charmin Toilet Paper, Kia Motors, and Pepsi don’t care if we ingest A.I. slop, just as long as if we see their commercials and maybe, just maybe, buy their products with what little money we do have.
The ties between the certain departments of the Department of War & Defense (not to be confused with the everyday operational military or its contractors) have plausible links to the UFO disinformation strategy.
For example, History Channel’s Ancient Aliens has some small links that I am aware of to the Department of Defense. Michael Young, a contributor to the show, is an alumnus of the Defense Information School (DINFOS) at Fort George Meade in Maryland.
Separately, a man named David Grusch is a UFO promoter who appeared out of nowhere as far as the UFO community. He is formerly of the National Geospaitial Intelligence Agency and was a Major in the USAF, and he knew a man named Matthew Sullivan (USAF personnel).
Sullivan is listed as having committed suicide, so this event naturally cause people to call conspiracy, but if this is all a purposeful misdirection campaign, it is pretty sick to appropriate Sullivan’s death…but, I wouldn’t put it past greedy people (who wish to profit from fake UFO disclosure or a disinfo campaign).
Sullivan died before he was supposed to testify about what he knew about UFOs/UAVs/UAPs, etc. Allegedly.
According to Melore (2026) of the Daily Mail, “After serving as a ‘5th Generation aircraft intelligence chief,’ Sullivan worked for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center as a deputy director at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The Ohio complex has long been linked to the alleged retrieval of crashed alien spacecraft since the Roswell incident in 1947. Sullivan also worked for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)…” (end quote) [Source: https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15742843/death-air-force-whistleblower-ufo-virginia.html].
Sullivan had been contacted by UAP whistleblower and retired US Air Force Major David Grusch prior to the intelligence officer’s sudden death, which reportedly left Grusch ‘extremely distraught (Melore, 2026). [Source: https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15742843/death-air-force-whistleblower-ufo-virginia.html].
Grusch, who is now a senior advisor to (Eric) Burlison (a Congressman) spent 14 years in the Air Force before working as an intelligence officer for the National Reconnaissance Office, which builds and launches surveillance satellites for the Pentagon. (Melore, 2026). [Source: https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15742843/death-air-force-whistleblower-ufo-virginia.html].
Eric Burlison is a US Representative Representing Missouri’s 7th congressional district and is a Trump Supporter who has not committed to signing a discharge petition or congressional measure to release the files on Jeffrey Epstein. [Source: https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2025-09-30/missouri-republicans-jeffrey-epstein-files-discharge-petition].
So we have a Congressman entertaining…UFOs…but not the victims of Jeffrey Epstein…Ok…
Furthermore, Mr. Sullivan analyzed 5th Gen aerospace platforms which means Drones, Hypersonic, holographic projections, etc.
The House Oversight Committee on UAPs involves many Republicans such as Anna Paulina Luna of Florida who chairs the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets and James Comer from Kentucky. All are Trump supporters. I do believe this helps prove my case loosely that this is a diversion campaign.
Also, Anna Paulina Luna is a peculiar person. She, like many others seeking power, speaks about having Jewish ancestry. But, she was revealed to have had a Nazi grandfather. “Her grandfather, Heinrich Mayerhofer, moved to Canada from Germany in 1954 and his immigration record, seen by the Post, identified him as Roman Catholic.
In addition, several members of Luna’s extended family said that, as a teenager in the 1940s, Heinrich Mayerhofer fought in the army of Nazi Germany. One of his sons, Edward Mayerhofer, Luna’s uncle, gave the Washington Post a photo of Heinrich in a Wehrmacht uniform. Experts from the Simon Wiesenthal Center confirmed to the Post that the uniform appeared to be authentic. Edward’s wife Jolanta, and daughter, Nicole, both told the Post that Luna’s grandfather fought for Nazi Germany.”
Also, her dad, George Mayerhofer, allegedly a recovered drug addict, has ties to the Messianic Jewish community. “Messianic Judaism is a movement that combines Jewish tradition and practice with the belief that Jesus Christ is the coming messiah.” (Times of Israel Staff, 13 February 2023).
Luna is known for her interview on Joe Rogan where she did a bad job of covering for Trump on ICE raids by alleging the protests were orchestrated by the Chinese (which Joe pushed back on and of course Republicans are horny for war with China). But mainly the focus in the interview was on alien disclosure. She and disgraced Congressman Matt Gaetz investigated phenomena at Eglin AFB.
Luna pushed the story that she was being blocked from learning the truth and she believes there’s advanced physics products and/or that inter-dimensional beings are involved (which reeks of Alex Jones similar sayings on InfoWars). She also brings up the popular conspiracy cultural trope of the missing books of the Bible with the Apocrapha which was a notable trope on 1990s “History’s Mysteries” on 1990s History Channel.
She subconsciously builds trust with the audience by appealing to a mutual outsider role.
Luna seems to be pushing the Ancient Aliens story arc with the idea of the Biblical Nephilim, i.e., Angels were allegedly Aliens who mated or experimented on humans and this idea touches upon the Pan Spermia idea (the humanity was seeded on Earth by extraterrestrials).
This uniquely American Alien theory provides a fantastical reconciliation between religion and science (thus perpetuating both fields through ideas such as Intelligent Design). The US is predominantly Christian of Protestant extraction and heavily Zionist. By pushing such a theory it helps justify the Judeao foundations of Christianity (thus being of use to the Zionists) by offering mystique while also promoting science which is exercised within a capitalist, militaristic imperialist and overly Europhilic framework.
This idea thus strategically placed the USA at the center of a divine destiny to expand further, even into the cosmos, because the USA for whatever reason is the Mecca of UFOs, meaning we are “Chosen”. The Ancient Alien story arc has Manifest Destiny and even “fascistic imperialist” implications. Underriding the American Alien community seems to be a subconscious reinforcement of “Western, Aryan, master race” chosen by destiny to unlock both ancient mysteries and extra terrestrial frontiers but through systems and theories like capitalism, accelerationism, Ceasarism, science, and Zionist Judeao Christian eschatology and Millennialism.
Simply put UFOlogy is just an upgrade to the original religious heavy Manifest Destiny but catered towards the scientific and post WW2 age.
The concept of Grey aliens has roots in the Occult (fake) writings of Alaistair Crowley but further I would argue as a moral reaction to the Holocaust and use of Atomics, but additionally a pragmatic diversion from Cold War military research.
Aliens are presented as “transhuman” thus morally superior to our warlike primate nature. Aliens thus serve as a moral compass in an era of harsh scientific Darwinism and the “Death of God” concept by Neitzche. Aliens are often believed to be Guardian Angels in a time were faith in Angels is ruined by scientific reality.
However, though it’s my belief that aliens are an evolution of Manifest Destiny and serves as bridge between religion and science, the fact remains there still two ardent and conflicting camps between theists and secular science. This can be witnessed in debates as to whether aliens are “demons” which as a debate was even touched upon by Trump Vice president JD Vance. [Source: https://cybernews.com/tech/alien-demon-ufo-religion-disclosure/].
(Added 5.23.26)
Conspiracies or theories relating to anti-graviity technology, currently and categorically relates to Amy Eskridge and others in Huntsville Cluster of the Missing Scientist storyline. Huntsville of course was home to many Nazi Paperclip Scientists after WW2, so even the location has subconscious implications in leading further into conspiracy rabbit holes.
Essentially Amy Eskridge opens the pandora’s box of Nazi anti-gravity capability conspiracy theories popular in conspiracy lore. One rabbit hole begets another.
Fox News host, Jesse Waters, literally pushed a Nazi UFO belief by claiming there are four alien races being Insectiods, Reptilian, Greys, and “Tall Whites”.
Jesse Waters on national TV talking about Tall Whites, relates to the Nazi idea of Aldebarans. One could even say that Reptilians categorically represents “The Left” or Democrats due to conspiracy culture being strongly a Right Wing endeavor in my opinion. But think about what Jesse is talking about.
Not talking about gas prices, Epstein or the War with Iran but…. pushing quasi Nazi alien theories. Waters is just another facilitator of this psy-op.
According to Google, “The “Aldebaran alien Nazi” myth is a popular pseudo-historical and esoteric conspiracy theory. It claims that the “Aryan” race originated from an alien civilization near the star Aldebaran, and that the Nazis used channeled extraterrestrial blueprints to build flying saucers.” Such saucers relates to “The Bell” which was allegedly a Nazi superweapon that used anti gravity.
This myth helps bolster a mystique around Nazi engineering while distracting from actual human atrocities.
So, the UFO meets Missing Scientists Theory is being pushed by an arguably fascist Regime, to distract the masses from Epstein, Israel, the Zionist Occupied Government, and Top Secret defense programs such as hypersonics, Golden Dome (the successor of the Strategic Defense Initiative and Brilliant Peebles), but also these consoles feeds back to a larger psychological campaign which subliminally promotes American Exceptionalism, white supremacy, the benefits of “Nietszchean” “Ubermench” libertarian capitalism, a Judeao Christian origin story, but through science snd extraterrestrials, yet, further by proxy, illuminates historical realities such as Operation Paperclip and the US Government complicity in Nazism.
Figures like Elon Musk who could be described white supremacist or sympathetic to it, is symbolic of this conspiratorial imperative. Elon symbolically is a successor to Werner Von Braun but also represents the “Incel nerd” who push such as “grandiose vision” of an Aryan Space Imperium.
Psychological Operations seem best when they achieve layered or tier effects, which gets exposed people to reinforce embedded belief structures without realizing it.
It sounds crazy but hate groups such as the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) is a literal manifestation of what I am saying.
According to Wikipedia, “The ONA promotes the idea that human history can be divided into a series of aeons, each of which contains a corresponding human civilization. Adherents believe that the current aeonic civilization is that of the Western world, but that the evolution of this society is threatened by the “Magian/Nazarene” influence of the Judeo-Christian religion, which the Order seeks to combat in order to establish a militaristic new social order, which it calls the “Imperium”. According to Order teachings, this is necessary in order for a galactic civilization to form, in which “Aryan” society will colonise the Milky Way.” (End Addition 5.22.2026)
According to Mark Welsh of Cyber News, As UFO disclosure debates intensify, whistleblower David Grusch has cautioned against “demonic” interpretations of unknown phenomena, even as some evangelical claims suggest pastors are being told to prepare for imminent alien revelations.
Luna seems to be a part of the distraction campaign by giving it the veneer of Congressional validity.
Separately, Grusch in an interview with NewsNation stated, he has knowledge of “non-human”, “exotic origin”, “vehicles that either landed or crashed”. Sure, that could be “aliens”, or… it’s a clever way of “word dodging” without lying.
By this I mean, non-human could be “robotic, automation, A.I.”.
We must ask ourselves, what are the big things going on in the Defense industry as far as technology”?
Golden Dome (an infrastcture network of various weapon and warning systems intended to model “Iron Dome” in Israel), hypersonic missiles, drones, automation, and Artificial intelligence are the big things in the Defense now.
There is also a buzz term called “Launched Effects”, which simply means things launched from vehicles or aircraft that have secondary purposes, such as a silo being released from an aircraft that carries swarms of drones.
What if the UAP phenomena is a DARPA experimental program or programs dealing with the autonomous creation of drones or swarm bots?
Remember when “swarm bots” were the rave online? But, also experiments into hypersonic missiles to fulfil the current Golden Dome project?
See article about Lockheed and anti swarm drone technology with A.I. (https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/lockheed-martin-ceo-unveils-ai-powered-warfare-tech-built-stop-drone-swarms).
A possible issue with Mr. Grusch is that he can’t disclose an actual classified program if it is a true classified program. That is the point of a classified program. The Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review would have to approve Mr. Grusch.
So, if we entertain that UFOS are a cover for this type of research, then this theory matches previously theories of government cover-ups to hide experimental programs, with programs of the past dealing with “air dominance” which included stealth technology (B-2 Spirit), lower earth orbit flight (e.g., the U-2 Dragon-lady spy plane), etc.
I remember in the media that people were saying they were witnessing drone activity, but those stories have faltered and taken a back seat to the UFO disclosure story arc.
News Nation is often pushing this Missing Scientists meets UFO Cover Up narrative. So, we have to understand the business of News Nation. News Nation is owned by Nexstar and hired many Fox News contributors; despite its marketing as a centrist outlet. Also, News Nation has some ex-CNN personality such as Andrew Cuomo. Centrist media in the United States simply means establishment media which will always go Right Wing especially when confronted with the real possibility of Leftist gains in the political realm. Centrism is essentially how far to the political Left that the status quo is often willing to go, so centrist media to me personally can’t be trusted despite the seeming allure of being moderate. News Nation is likely just another Zionist apologist News Outlet who supports capitalism, corporations, the military complex, etc., but gives viewers a sense of being in an impartial and unbased space which could be further from the truth.
However, NewsNation in their YouTube video, titled: David Grusch: Missing scientist case ‘concerning’ , producer says | Elizabeth Vargas Reports, posted on 6 May 2026, features Miguel Sancho (a TV producer) and Matthew Szydagis (a University of Albany physicist). This segment offers somewhat of a grounded and some cautious approach to the UFO angle since they entertain that this overarching “Missing Scientists” case could be a string of isolated events.
You can see Nexstar’s political contributions at Open Secrets: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/nexstar-media-group/summary?id=D000068622
Possibilities
Multiple things can be true at the same time.
These multiple things can be totally unrelated, somewhat related, or totally related.
A possibility is there is no connection, and these are all random events, but because humans want to see patterns, it is easy to point to the scientist’s deaths as being a conspiracy.
Or, someone is taking these random events and trying to create a larger conspiracy, plausibly as a mass prank/trolling event, a distraction campaign, etc. For example, an idea can spring from 4Chan and then become viral, notably with social media financially rewarding engagement, i.e., the more sensational views get, the more financial rewards for people.
According to Radio Canada International (RCI) (2026), Mick West, author of 2018’s Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect, is also unimpressed by the supposed connections. According to West, the deaths are real. The families’ grief is real. The pattern is not,
he wrote on his Substack page (new window). Further, RCI (2026), stated that West characterizes what is occurring as a death list fallacy.
The most famous occurrence in modern times arguably stems from when a few authors in the 1960s compiled lists and cast a suspicious eye toward the deaths of many people closely or even tangentially connected to President John F. Kennedy, his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, and Oswald’s killer, nightclub owner Jack Ruby. West, using a sample size of what he estimated to be about 700,000 individuals with top secret clearance in the aerospace and nuclear agency work population, argues that ordinary mortality averages for such a population over a 22-month period would result in about 4,000 deaths, 70 homicides and 180 suicides (RCI, 2026). [Source: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2248519/killing-of-calgary-born-scientist-tied-to-mysterious-u-s-deaths-disappearances-despite-quick-arrest]. [Source: https://mickwest.substack.com/p/the-uap-body-count-doesnt-add-up].
Also, within the conspiracy, some of the deaths are random events, but some of them are part of a larger narrative, such as stated above, i.e., an outside party could be trying to steer a conspiracy narrative for distraction purposes.
For example, according to Joey Esposito of Snopes.com (2026), The “dead or missing scientists” conspiracy theory first gained mainstream traction when it was covered on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show” in an episode that aired April 2, 2026. CNN, The New York Post, The Daily Mail and Men’s Journal followed suit, and Fox News published a follow-up story. [Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/did-11-us-scientists-connected-to-sensitive-research-die-or-go-missing-what-we-know/ar-AA21UwlJ?ocid=BingNewsSerp]
Or maybe there is something such as UFO Cult like Heaven’s Gate going on. For example, some scientists involved in UFO-ology believe in some sort of upcoming event and ran away, did self-harm such in the case of Heaven’s Gate, etc.
There is also the possibility of paranoid anti-government types hurting scientists because of their believed ties to “Deep State” technology, though these scientists are just regular people. This reminds me of the plot of the movie, Bugonia.
Lastly, there could be a larger conspiracy involving all the scientists. This is the most extreme case and the most doubtful.
There was the GEC Marconi Case of the 1980s, but that appears more plausible with foul play, but still the overall conclusion was inconclusive about their being concerted conspiracy.
If this is all a distraction campaign, someone could be copying and pasting the narrative of the GEC Marconi Murders to mass troll the public into going on a wild goose chase.
Foreword and Insights
First, there could be economic uncertainty due to grant and funding cancellation which can increase depression and mental health issues (e.g., higher self-deletion rates amongst older white men and the onset of schizophrenia amongst younger scientists in their late twenties to early thirties).
Secondly, higher crime rates in areas focused on intensive scientific research such as in Energy Research in New Mexico, Aerospace in Southern California, urban areas of large public institutions, etc. [See; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_Mexico].
Thirdly, the possibility of riskier lifestyles due to the stress of work, maintaining security clearances, etc.
For example, I would argue that the Security Clearance (Standard Form 80) process with the federal government can be a stressful process, especially if obtaining a Top Secret with Secured Compartmentalized Information (SCI) and Polygraph (i.e. Poly). Omissions or lies can be charged as federal crimes.
Due the stress of having one’s life under the radar (for example, disclosing that time you tried LSD in college or how you get turned on by Eastern European accents), plus periodic mandatory reporting to the government, can cause people to be scared or “feel like they are being watched”, considering mandatory reporting involves disclosures around romantic relationships, foreign contacts, financial inheritance, alcohol consumption, drug use, etc.
Due to the stress of having clearances, some people may do riskier behaviors that are legal to “blow off stream”, which means drinking alcohol, engaging in casual sexual activity with multiple partners or subordinates, gambling, etc. Essentially doing things that are addictive or risky but not technically illegal and involving disclosures. This is something common in Law Enforcement, the military, etc. Risker lifestyles can lead to romantic fallouts (crimes of passion), indebtedness, etc.
Also, dangerous hobbies such hiking, flying, etc.
For example, some people involved in the Aerospace industry are former pilots, so there is the chance of accidents with aircraft, etc.
Amy Eskridge
Amy Eskridge seems like a sad, isolated case of self-harm due to her having chronic pain issues which her family spoke about. Based on other videos of Amy, it seems she was also suffering from mental health issues. Blaming her death on a government conspiracy seems to undermine who Amy was and appropriates her pain for a larger conspiracy which some in the public want.
She died by suicide on 11 June 2022, aged 34 according to International Business Times. [Source: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/grieving-father-dismisses-conspiracy-theories-1792374”
Amy Eskridge’s father worked at NASA working on experimental propulsion systems based on plasma. She did no have a Doctorate despite being considered a genius by some comments (not saying you need a Ph.D., to be a genius).
According to News Nation correspondent Nancy Loo, her father denies any ties to other scientists deaths. Amy founded the Institute of Exotic Science, which she stated is a for-profit institution, which to me appears strange since an organization of this nature seems as if it should be a non-profit institution tied to grants and universities, but seems to be backed by private donors. The Institute seems to help scientists who had their government grants cancelled or ended up gaining private equity to accelerate their prior projects for commercialization.
I looked up Amy’s institute, called the Institute of Exotic Science (
HTTP://INSTITUTEHSV.COM) , to obtain her DUNS and CAGE Code. I found that the legal name of the I.E.S., is INSTITUTE P.B.C., under CAGE Code (Commercial & Government Entity) Code 87RE0 (which can be found on the Defense Logistics Agency’s website). [Source: https://cage.dla.mil/Search/Details?id=11896397]. The DUNS number is 116910125. The address is 5536 APPLE GROVE RD, JOPPA, AL 35087 6161, and Amy is listed as the main POC. Her father’s work can be found at (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard-Eskridge).
According to Factualy.com (accessed on 27 April 2026 at 7:30 pm EST), Amy Eskridge’s family has consistently described her in public statements and obituaries as a brilliant scientist who suffered from chronic pain and to them there is nothing mysterious about her death, which officials ruled a suicide; her father has publicly pushed back against conspiracy theories, saying “scientists die also, just like other people” [1] [2] [3]. The family has urged reliance on official findings and dismissed online speculation linking her death to directed-energy attacks or other foul play [1] [3]. [Source: https://factually.co/fact-checks/society/eskridge-family-statements-health-circumstances-of-death-obituaries-a8917a].
Carl Grillmair
According to Alexa Mae Asperin (2026) of Fox New 11, who used official statements from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and jail records documenting the suspect’s arrest history, is that Carl Grllmair, the victim, who is a scientist from Cal Tech was killed at his Llano home by Freddy Snyder, aged 29.
According to Thea Felicity of the International Business Times (2026), Grillmair worked at Caltech’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center. Further, pne of his most celebrated achievements was detecting signs of water on a planet orbiting a distant star. It was a major step in the search for life beyond Earth. He also discovered and mapped galactic streams, remnants of ancient cosmic collisions (Felicity, 2026). [Source: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/caltech-scientist-carl-grillmair-shot-dead-1780659].
According to Radio Canada International (RCI) (2026), Grillmair won NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal and attended the University of Calgary before earning a master’s degree from the University of Victoria, eventually earning his PhD outside of Canada. In the 1990s, he joined the California Institute of Technology’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (RCI, 2026). [Source: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2248519/killing-of-calgary-born-scientist-tied-to-mysterious-u-s-deaths-disappearances-despite-quick-arrest]. Grillmair was known for his work on NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and his groundbreaking discovery of water on a distant exoplanet (Asperin, 2026). Grillmair lived in the desert and even built his own telescope to take advantage of the darkness outside of the city lights (Asperin, 2026). [Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/carl-grillmair-man-to-be-arraigned-in-death-of-renowned-caltech-scientist/ar-AA221gXj?ocid=BingNewsSerp].
Synder is scheduled for arraignment Wednesday for the murder. Snyder faces additional charges for a carjacking involving his mother and a residential burglary, following his release from custody in December (Asperin, 2026). Synder, a 29-year-old who lived two miles away in Llano, Calif., was charged with his murder (RCI, 2026). Investigators have not yet disclosed a motive for the attack or confirmed any link to a series of recent deaths and disappearances among local scientists (Asperin, 2026).
Yet, per RCI (2026), while all defendants deserve the presumption of innocence, and a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s spokesperson admitted it doesn’t appear the victim and alleged killer knew each other personally, police appear satisfied they have their man (end quote).
Timeline according to Asperin (2026)
- December 20, 2024: Snyder is arrested in Palmdale on suspicion of carrying a loaded firearm in a vehicle.
- December 23, 2024: Snyder is released from custody.
- December 28, 2024: Snyder allegedly commits a first-degree residential burglary.
- February 16, 2025: Carl Johann Grillmair is shot and killed; Snyder is arrested following a related carjacking report.
- February 18, 2025: Snyder is officially charged with murder and carjacking.
- Wednesday (Current): Snyder is scheduled to be arraigned.
Nuno Loureiro
The Death of Nuno Loureiro to me is proof that this “large scientists conspiracy” is part of a Right Wing agenda and diversion campaign. I say this because Nuno was killed in connection with the 2025 Brown University Mass Shooting Event, and the Right Wing lied and tried to blame it on a Palestinian. They did this of course as part of an Anti-Left Wing and Anti-Pro Palestinian campaign during the worst parts of the Gaza Genocide. So, the Right Wing already knows they lied about this incident which involves a scientists they are alleging is now part of a larger conspiracy. That does not make sense. This may be smoking gun in that they are appropriating a tragedy they already tried to misdirect and appropriate elsewhere.
According to his Wikipedia page, Nuno Filipe Gomes Loureiro, a MIT researcher, was from Portugal. He was the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center from 2024 until his murder in 2025 (end quote).
The assailant was a fellow Portuguese national who studied at the same school as Louriero in Portgual. This case seems like a case of mental illness, dreams of grandeur, and jealously directed at Engineering students. A revenge shooting.
Frank Maiwald
According to his obituary, Frank Werner Maiwald, aged 61, passed away on July 4, 2024, in Los Angeles, CA (Legacy.com, 2026). 61 is it not uncommon for someone at his age to pass away. He was associated with the JPL and NASA.
According to Legacy.com (2026), Frank managed the development of the SBG-VSWIR instrument and had previously overseen the successful delivery of two instruments for the AMR-C program. His roles included serving as a technical group supervisor and contributing to various significant projects such as AMR/SWOT, COWVR, AMR/Jason 3, and HIFI.
According to the Earth-data subsite of the NASA.gov (n.d.) website, AMR-C stands for the Advanced Microwave Radiometer-C (AMR-C) is a multi-spectral passive microwave radiometer used to correct the radar altimeter instrument measurement aboard the Sentinel-6/Michael Freilich platform. The radiometer accounts for the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, which affects the speed of the altimeter’s radar pulses. The Sentinel-6/Michael Freilich platform will continue sea surface height measurements which have been acquired by the Topex-Poseidon and Jason missions since the 1990s (NASA.gov, n.d.). [Source: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/instruments/amr-c].
According to the NASA Technical Report Server found at NASA.gov (2026), SBG-VSWIR stands for Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) Visible to Short Wavelength Infrared (VSWIR) Wide Swath Instrument Concept [Source: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20230005693]
According to the Center on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS), the purpose of the SBG-VSWIR Program is Imaging spectrometer to provide information on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, hydrology, weather, climate, and solid Earth. [Source: https://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionsummary.aspx?missionID=974.]. The launch date per this site is 2031 and end-of-life date is in
Further, about the SBG, NASA (n.d.), stated that NASA has initiated a new study for the Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) Designated Observable, identified in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) 2017 Decadal Survey, “Thriving on Our Changing Planet: A Decadal Strategy for Earth Observations from Space.” The Decadal Survey document presented a clear vision for the combined roles of visible to shortwave infrared imaging spectroscopy and multispectral or hyperspectral thermal infrared imagery in addressing terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and other elements of biodiversity, geology, volcanoes, the water cycle and applied sciences topics relevant to many societal benefit areas (NASA, n.d.). [Source: https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/decadal-surveys/decadal-sbg/].
According to the JPL (est. 2023), stated on their website that the SBG mission(s) will use hyperspectral visible to shortwave infrared (VSWIR) and thermal infrared (TIR) imagery to investigate ground/water temperature, snow reflectivity, active geologic processes, vegetation traits, and algal biomass. Two spacecraft (satellites) that make up SBG: SBG-TIR and SBG-VSWIR. SBG VSWIR will collect only during the day over both ocean and land. SBG-TIR will collect during the day and at night over both ocean and land; it is comprised of two different instruments (OTTER and VNIR). This program will utilized Artificial Intelligence tool created by the AIG, i.e., Artificial Intelligence Group of the JP/NASA called CLASP (Compressed Large-scale Activity Scheduling and Planning ) which serves as the core tool for mission analysis. Developed by the AIG and used in several flight missions, it ingests spacecraft trajectories, science campaigns with their observational constraints, and spacecraft models (including instrument modes, power model, and memory constraints), and outputs observation schedules for a given planning horizon.[https://ai.jpl.nasa.gov/public/projects/sbg/] [https://ai.jpl.nasa.gov/public/projects/clasp/].
Michael Hicks
According to Forest Lawn.com, the obituary for Hicks, reads as follows [Source: https://obituaries.forestlawn.com/obituaries/michael-hicks]:
Michael David Hicks of Sunland, California, astronomer, artist and father, passed away Sunday July 30, 2023, at 59 years of age. Born in Dayton, Ohio, Michael earned degrees from Boston University and a PhD in Lunar and Planetary Science at the University of Arizona followed by long career at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. His research did much to advance the scientific knowledge of comets and asteroids. Michael authored and co-authored numerous articles for The Planetary Science Journal, The Nature Journal, The Astronomer’s Telegraph, and for the Lunar and Planetary Institute. He received many awards for his work over his career, as a team member on the NASA Redirect Mission Concept Development Project, the Near Earth NASA Tracking (NEAT) Team, the NASA Dawn Science Team and the NASA Deep Space 1 Comet Team.
Michael’s passion for science was coupled with a deep appreciation of art. He pursued projects in visual media, from woodblock prints to oil painting to metalwork, he played the ukulele, and loved the writings of Hunter S. Thompson.
As a father, Michael stressed the importance of developing both intellect and compassion, passing on to his daughter the motto “head and heart.”
A lover of the Muppets and Wallace and Gromit, Michael’s whimsy and sweetness will be missed. He is preceded in death by his mother Joan and his infant brother Brian, and survived by his father Richard, daughter Julia, ex-wife Brunella, and siblings Richard, Stephen, Suzette, Jeanette, Paul, and Barbara.
Monica Reza
Per the reporting of Lauren Conlin of Los Angeles Magazine (2026). According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Reza was last seen around 9 a.m. near the Mount Waterman area in California’s Angeles National Forest after going missing on June 22, 2025. Reza appeared to vanish without a trace, with her scent reportedly stopping at a hat believed to have belonged to her. She has also been linked to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where she was reportedly stationed at the same time as retired Air Force General Neil McCasland; a facility long associated with advanced aerospace programs and reportedly sensitive material connected to the Roswell Crash of 1947. Los Angeles spoke with a source who participated in a yoga group with Reza and knew nothing about her work in aerospace research (Conlin, 2026). The source confirmed that Reza was hiking with a male and female companion from her yoga group, where she was reportedly training to be an instructor (Conlin, 2026). The yoga studio, however, was not a typical one (Conlin, 2026). According to the source, it incorporates not only yoga, but also astrology and Vedic sciences (the studio blends physical yoga practice with spiritual and philosophical elements, including astrology and traditional Vedic teachings from ancient India) (Conlin, 2026). The source revealed that Reza and her male companion oddly began running on the terrain, which is uncommon given how steep and uneven it is, particularly on the downhill sections (Conlin, 2026). The source described this as unusual- this would not be a place to go running, even as a skilled hiker (Conlin, 2026). The male companion confirmed Reza was behind him, reportedly running, when he eventually called out to her and received no response (Conlin, 2026). He later showed others the location where he last saw her. The source noted that from that spot, the road was both visible and audible, suggesting Reza was relatively close to a more accessible area when she disappeared (Conlin, 2026). [Source: https://lamag.com/crimeinla/new-clues-in-monica-reza-case-surface-as-trump-launches-probe-into-missing-scientists/]
Reza seems to be her married name because in articles pointing back to her alloy discovery she was going by Monica Jacinto. [Source: https://spacenews.com/what-is-mondaloy-and-why-should-you-care/]
Melissa Casias
A Los Alamos National Laboratory administrative employee who was reported missing in New Mexico in 2025. Her disappearance was bizarre as she was last seen walking along a highway. Los Angeles does not believe her disappearance is connected to the others as Casias held an administrative position with Los Alamos, and was said to be having private financial issues. [https://lamag.com/crimeinla/new-clues-in-monica-reza-case-surface-as-trump-launches-probe-into-missing-scientists/}
Anthony Chavez
A reported employee or affiliate of Los Alamos National Laboratory who allegedly disappeared in 2025. [https://lamag.com/crimeinla/new-clues-in-monica-reza-case-surface-as-trump-launches-probe-into-missing-scientists/]
Anthony Chavez according to New Mexico Law Enforcement: New Mexico Missing Persons
Casias worked as an administrative assistant, and Chavez as a construction foreman, USA Today reported. [Source: PolitiFact | Fact-checking claims about missing, dead scientists: Were they researching UFOs, nuclear weapons?].
Joshua LeBlanc
Stephen Garcia
According to Chris Melore (2026) of the Daily Mail, “Steven Garcia, 48, vanished without a trace on August 28, 2025. He was last seen leaving his Albuquerque, New Mexico home on foot, carrying only a handgun.” Further, “Garcia was a government contractor working for the Kansas City National Security Campus” (Melore, 2026). Specifically, KCNSC manufactures more than 80 percent of all the non-nuclear components that go into building the military’s nuclear weapons (Melore, 2026). Garcia allegedly served as a property custodian at KCNSC’s New Mexico facility, giving him a top security clearance and broad access to the entire site’s nuclear secrets (Melore, 2026). The source described Garcia’s work as ‘a very high-level, overseeing position for all the assets. Tens, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars in equipment and assets, some of which are not classified, others would be classified.‘ (Melore, 2026).
https://kcnsc.doe.gov/about-us/new-mexico-operations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_National_Security_Campus
David Wilcock
According to his Wikipedia page, “Wilcock believed himself to be in telepathic contact with extraterrestrial beings and indirectly proffered this belief as a basis for his teachings. Some of his followers believe he was the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce. According to his website, Divine Cosmos, he offered teachings in “soul growth, ascension, and the evolution of consciousness.”
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