The Number of Missing or Dead Scientists is Now Up to EIGHT as a Sitting US Congressman Makes Wild Claims About UFOs and Says 'People Just Do Not Disappear'
FOX. Getty Images.[Author's Note: As long as this story keeps developing along the lines it has, I'll keep using images from The X-Files. And if it gets any darker, I may have to switch to Men in Black.]
If you've been here any length of time, you know I like a good conspiracy theory. Emphasis on "good." As low as the bar for what I'm willing to accept as plausible got about six years ago, this very month when we were all flat out lied to about a virus, a lot of the ones out there are just too outlandish for my liking. Too dark. And all too often when you start to pull the thread, you don't have to get more than an inch or two before there's someone blaming the Jews for something or other. That's when I tap out.
But even some of the higher quality theories die hard in a world where it's increasingly hard to hide things. Most notably the one that said NASA astronauts saw towers built on the far side of the moon. Which was intriguing until roughly 24 hours ago when four new astronauts armed with modern hi def cameras and 5G internet got to see the entire surface of the far side. Parts of it never glimpsed by human eyes because they were viewing from a considerable distance:
Nope. No towers. Not a one to be seen. Not a control tower, a guard tower, an Eiffel, a Sears, a Bara-dur, a CN or even a Jenga. I trust these astronauts, and I'm convinced they would've mentioned one if they'd seen it.
But there's one conspiracy theory that didn't die 4,000 miles above the lunar surface yesterday. It just continues to expand. And might be better described as several conspiracies all being coming together, the way fiber strands are wound around each other to make a rope. And this one just keeps getting stronger.
It began with some scientists who went missing or were killed under, as they say, mysterious circumstances. The number of them got up to an even half dozen:
And now we've added two more:
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Source - The ominous web of US scientists and lab employees who have died or gone missing continues to grow as two more cases have been linked to the disturbing trend.
NASA scientist Frank Maiwald reportedly died on July 4, 2024 in Los Angeles at the age of 61, but the cause of death has never been made public and officials confirmed that an autopsy was never performed.
Maiwald had been a prominent researcher at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) since 1999 and worked on multiple projects tied to advanced satellite technology that could scan Earth and other planets.
In June 2023, just 13 months before his death, he was the lead researcher on a breakthrough that could help future space missions detect clear signs of life on other worlds. …
Despite Maiwald being a JPL Principal - an award given to scientists 'making outstanding individual contributions' in their fields - NASA has never commented publicly. …
Meanwhile, another mysterious disappearance has come to light at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), one of America's key nuclear research facilities, bringing the total number of unexplained incidents to eight since July 2024.
Anthony Chavez, a former employee at LANL until his retirement in 2017, vanished without a trace on May 4, 2025 - just seven weeks before a key assistant at the same lab disappeared.
That "key assistant" was Melissa Casias:
She drove her husband - who also worked at Los Alamos - to work one morning, declared she forgot her key card and was going home to get it. After stopping briefly to visit her daughter, she went home, left without her keys, wallet or phones. Which were found scrubbed clean to their factory settings. The only time she was ever seen again was that security camera shot of her walking, taken three miles from her house.
Add her name to:
--Retired US Air Force Major General Neil McCasland, who ran a $2.2 billion research project at Wright-Patterson. And who advised Tom Delonge of The To the Stars Academy about UFO research. He walked away from his home, also in New Mexico, also without any of his belongings, and hasn't been seen since.
--Monica Reza, who developed an alloy vital to the US rocket program with ties to Wright Patterson. She was on a hike with two friends who lost track of her. And no trace of her has been found.
And as I wrote recently:
Then there have two murders. Nuno Loureiro, the director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT, and astrophysicist Carl Grillmair. Both shot and killed in their own homes, with no apparent motive. Then biologist Jason Thomas was found dead by a lake near his home in Wakefield, MA. He had been working on cancer cures for a company with several Pentagon contracts.:
Now with Frank Maiwald and Anthony Chavez, that makes eight. Eight brilliant people with specialized knowledge about the US space program as it's in the early stages of a crucial step forward into a permanent human presence in the solar system beyond Earth orbit, or doing research into life beyond our own world.
All this with a backdrop of members of the US Congress making outrageous claims about humans and aliens. Congressmen past:
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… and present:
NY Post - Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), a member of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, said he’s long advocated for “full disclosure” despite the impact the truth could have on the public. …
“If they were to release the things that I’ve seen, you’d be up at night, worrying about, thinking about this stuff,” he ominously warned, adding he’s sat down with “just about every alphabet agency this is.”
Just two weeks ago, he recalled, he was briefed “on an issue” involving extraterrestrial life “that would have set the Earth on fire.”
“This country would have come unglued, I think, if they would have heard all that I heard. They would demand answers and they … need to. But, you know …unfortunately it just keeps getting covered up and covered up,” he said. …
Burchett also weighed in on the alarming string of disappearances and deaths among the country’s top researchers in the field — including the mysterious disappearance of retired Air Force Gen. William McCasland in February and his former colleague, rocket scientist Monica Reza, eight months earlier.
“There are no coincidences in this town. These folks have disappeared or died mysteriously,” he said. “I think overall, I think there is a connection there. People just do not disappear … not in this day and age.”
I don't say this often about a lot of elected officials, but Tim Burchett is right. "People just do not disappear. Not in this day and age." Until they do. Until eight of them them turn up missing or dead. And not only have the authorities gone radio silent on all of it, they seem to be willfully indifferent. Congress people are asking questions, but that's the extent of it.
And the public seems to be staying blissfully ignorant about this as well. We can all wish nothing but the best for Savannah Guthrie's family and pray for the safe return of their mother. But that woman wasn't walking around with formulas for zero-point energy, anti-gravity systems, limitless sources of energy, and recipes for rocket alloys in her head. These people, to varying degrees, were.
If you are too, or if you have any other knowledge about our most sensitive and important secrets, please keep your head on a swivel. And by all means, keep your phone on you wherever you go. Eight is too many to lose.
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