11th dead scientist linked to UFOs emerges in recent string of disappearances, deaths: ‘NOT NORMAL’

President Donald Trump declared that his administration will have an answer in the coming days

Published Apr 17, 2026  •  Last updated 0 minutes ago  •  4 minute read

Amy Eskridge, whose death in 2022 has resurfaced in a possible connection to other missing or dead scientists privy to top-secret information. Photo by Jeremy Rhys /YouTube

The number of scientists with access to U.S. secrets who have been found dead or have gone missing is “too coincidental” to ignore, one congressman believes.

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President Donald Trump declared Thursday that his administration will have an answer within the next few days about a string of mysterious deaths and disappearances of the experts with ties to advanced research.

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“I hope it’s random, but we’re going to know in the next week-and-a-half,” Trump told reporters. “Pretty serious stuff, hopefully a coincidence, or whatever you want to call it.”

There appears to be no known evidence of a connection among the cases, but some lawmakers are calling for a closer examination of the disappearances and deaths.

‘Too coincidental’

Rep. Eric Burlison, of Missouri, said his office had already been eyeing some of the disappearances for about a year and he believes the mystery surrounding the scientists is “certainly” tied to the access some of them had to classified aerospace, defence and UFO information.

“This is a rallying call to pay attention to this issue and make sure that our nation’s top scientists are safe and secure,” Burlison said Friday on Fox & Friends.

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He also suggested the possibility that bad actors from China, Russia or Iran could be involved.

“This is too coincidental, and so we have to be investigating this,” he continued. “We need to have our nation’s top investigators, the FBI and every agency looking into this matter.”

Burlison said some of the scientists have “literally just disappeared” without a trace, noting how Air Force Maj. Gen. William “Neil” McCasland vanished from his Albuquerque, N.M., home in February — after Burlison said he tried to contact him twice about his research into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs).

Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William “Neil” McCasland, missing since Feb. 27, 2026. (Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office) Photo by Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office

The congressman also believes that “some form of threat” was delivered to the scientists before they vanished or died.

“They literally just disappeared. Left all of their devices at home. This is not normal,” Burlison said.

“These are some of the most advanced scientists, researchers in our nation, some of the most important people for national security efforts. And they all just mysteriously disappeared.”

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McCasland, who retired in 2013 and vanished on Feb. 27, had worked in top positions in space research and acquisition.

Burlison sounding the alarms on Fox comes hours after another scientist’s mysterious death emerged, the Daily Mail reported.

Is 2022 death related?

Amy Eskridge, 34, was involved in extensive research into anti-gravity technology, UFOs and extraterrestrial life, according to the outlet.

She died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at her Huntsville, Alabama, home in 2022.

Her death was ruled a suicide and no public information was released.

However, prior to her death, Eskridge had launched a research company, The Institute for Exotic Science, in order to create a “public-facing persona to disclose anti-gravity technology.”

Eskridge revealed in a 2020 interview that she had plans to disclose information about UFOs and extraterrestrials to the public — and was receiving threats.

“I need to disclose soon, man. I need to publish soon because it’s like escalating,” she said in a wide-ranging, revealing interview that would be one of her last.

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“This has been going on for like four or five years, and over the past 12 months, it’s been escalating, like more aggressive, more invasive digging through my underwear drawer and sexual threats.”

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She worked with retired British intelligence officer Franc Milburn to investigate the alleged harassment, according to the Mail.

Milburn discovered that Eskridge had endured multiple physical and psychological attacks.

He submitted his findings to Congress in 2023 and later concluded that Eskridge’s death was not a suicide.

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These are the officials who have disappeared or died since 2023:

DISAPPEARED

– William “Neil” McCasland, retired U.S. Air Force major general (missing since Feb. 27, 2026)

– Steven Garcia, government contractor at the Kansas City National Security Campus in Albuquerque, N.M. (missing since Aug. 28, 2025)

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– Anthony Chavez, former employee at Los Alamos National Laboratory (missing since May 8, 2025)

– Melissa Casias, administrative worker at Los Alamos National Laboratory (missing since June 26, 2025)

– Monica Reza, director of materials processing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (missing since June 22, 2025)

DEAD

– Jason Thomas, pharmaceutical researcher at Novartis working on cancer treatments (died on March 17, 2026)

– Carl Grillmair, Caltech astrophysicist who worked on NASA’s NEOWISE and NEO Surveyor missions (died on Feb. 16, 2026)

– Nuno Loureiro, director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (died from gunshot wound on Dec. 16, 2025)

– Frank Maiwald, principal researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (died on July 4, 2024)

– Michael David Hicks, research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; worked on the DART Project and Deep Space 1 mission (died on July 30, 2023)

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