‘Something Sinister’: House Oversight to Investigate 11 Missing, Dead Scientists
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer confirmed the committee will investigate the 11 scientists who have either died or remain missing.
These scientists have ties to nuclear and space research, sparking national security concerns.
The committee will seek information from the Department of War, the FBI, the Department of Energy, and NASA since the missing people primarily had affiliations with those agencies.
Comer told Fox & Friends:
We’re very concerned about this. This is a national security concern. This would suggest that something sinister may be happening. So we want to see what we can do and hopefully with our bully pulpit, we can maybe bring attention to this, and have anyone that knows of any information out there, have them contact Congress so we can help determine what’s going on here, and prevent this from happening in the future.
“We know there are many countries around the world that would love to have our knowledge and nuclear capabilities,” Comer added. “And these are the people that were at the forefront of it, and they’re either dead or missing.”
Leslie wrote this weekend that Amy Eskridge, a researcher who died in 2022, has been added to the list.
The original list had only 10, which gained national attention when Fox News’s Pete Doocy asked Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about it last Wednesday.
Doocy followed up with President Donald Trump on Thursday, who confirmed the White House would investigate the cases.
Leslie provided details of the scientists. It wouldn’t hurt to repeat them because, to reiterate what Comer said, many enemy countries would love to have their knowledge and expertise:
- Frank Maiwald (NASA JPL): Senior researcher and “Principal” at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, was involved in high‑level mission design and systems engineering. He was reported dead on July 4, 2024, in Los Angeles; obituaries did not list a cause of death and there was reportedly no public autopsy result.
- Monica Jacinto Reza: NASA/JPL materials or engineering leader who vanished during a hike in Angeles National Forest on June 22, 2025; she was with friends when she reportedly disappeared only yards away, and search efforts have not found her.
- Anthony Chavez: Los Alamos National Laboratory employee reported missing in May 2025.
- Melissa Casias: Employee at Los Alamos National Laboratory reported missing in 2025; local coverage has described ongoing concern and a lack of breakthroughs.
- Michael David Hicks: NASA scientist (linked in coverage to asteroid‑deflection research) who died in 2023; his case has been retroactively added to some lists as attention grew, with no detailed public cause of death released.
- Nuno Loureiro: MIT fusion‑energy or plasma‑science researcher killed at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts in December 2025 in what is described as a homicide.
- Carl Grillmaier: Astrophysicist shot and killed on his porch in rural Llano County, with a suspect charged following an apparent carjacking or related incident.
- Jason Thomas: Novartis scientist/chemical biologist working on cancer research, reported missing in December 2025; his body was later found in a Massachusetts lake in March 2026, and authorities have said no foul play is suspected while cause of death remains pending or undisclosed.
- William Neil (Neil) McCasland: Retired U.S. Air Force major general who oversaw Air Force science and technology programs; he left his New Mexico home on February 27, 2026, without his phone or glasses and has not been seen since, drawing intense media attention because of his past work and tangential appearance in UFO‑related emails.
- Steven Garcia: Government contractor at the Kansas City National Security Campus in Albuquerque, a site that produces non‑nuclear components for U.S. nuclear weapons, who left his home on foot on August 28, 2025, and disappeared.
- Amy Eskridge: Researcher involved with anti-gravity technology, UFOs, and extraterrestrial life. Her death was ruled a suicide, but she said in 2020 that she had received threats.
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