We have been covering this story since the first Daily Mail report dropped and every time we think the list is complete another name gets added. The count is now ten.
10th person connected to top secret US nuclear research has reportedly vanished without a trace
JUST IN: Tenth person connected to top secret US nuclear research has reportedly vanished without a trace.
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The Count is Now 10: Another connection to top secret US nuclear secrets and UFO research has reportedly vanished without a trace
Steven Garcia, 48, was last seen on August 28th, 2025 walking out of his Albuquerque home on foot in a green camouflage shirt and shorts just after 9 AM. He was carrying a handgun. He has not been seen since.
An anonymous source told the Daily Mail that Garcia was a government contractor at the Kansas City National Security Campus facility in Albuquerque, a site that manufactures more than 80 percent of all non-nuclear components used in the military’s nuclear weapons.
Garcia reportedly served as a property custodian overseeing tens to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment and assets, some classified, with a top security clearance and broad access to the entire facility. The source described it as a very high-level oversight position for all the site’s assets.
Albuquerque police noted that Garcia may be a danger to himself. The anonymous source disputed that completely. They described Garcia as a very stable person and said the possibility of him being targeted by foreign intelligence services makes the most sense given who he was and what he knew.
KCNSC reportedly went through his work computers, emails, and files in the days after his disappearance looking for any clues. Nothing has been found.
This brings the total to ten people with documented ties to America’s nuclear or space programs who have died or disappeared under suspicious circumstances since mid-2023. Four of those ten vanished on foot from their homes in almost identical fashion. Here is every case.
Michael David Hicks, NASA JPL research scientist, died July 30th 2023. Age 59. No cause of death disclosed. No health issues mentioned in any obituaries. He published over 80 scientific papers and was directly involved with the DART Project and the Deep Space 1 Mission. NASA has never commented on his death.
Frank Maiwald, NASA JPL Principal researcher, a designation reserved for scientists making outstanding individual contributions to their fields, died July 4th 2024 in Los Angeles. Age 61. No autopsy. No cause of death. No public statement from NASA or JPL.
Monica Reza, NASA JPL Director of Materials Processing, disappeared June 22nd 2025 while hiking in the Angeles National Forest just months after starting her role. Two friends were thirty feet away. They looked back and she was gone.
Melissa Casias, administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory with top security clearance, vanished June 26th 2025. Both her work and personal phones were found at home wiped clean after a factory reset.
Anthony Chavez, former Los Alamos National Laboratory worker, disappeared May 4th 2025. No explanation. No resolution.
Major General Neil McCasland, who oversaw the Air Force’s $2.2 billion science and technology program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and appeared in 2016 Wikileaks emails as an advisor on UFO disclosure, walked out of his New Mexico home on February 27th 2026 without his phone, wearable devices, or prescription glasses. Has not been seen since.
Nuno Loureiro, director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT and reportedly on the verge of a breakthrough in plasma physics and fusion energy, was assassinated at his home in Brookline Massachusetts on December 15th 2025. The gunman was identified as a former classmate from Portugal.
Carl Grillmair, 67-year-old astrophysicist whose work was heavily supported by NASA JPL and who was connected to missile tracking technology used by the Air Force, was shot and killed on his front porch at 6 AM on February 16th 2026.
Jason Thomas, pharmaceutical researcher testing cancer treatments at Novartis, was found dead in a Massachusetts lake on March 17th 2026 after disappearing three months earlier. No foul play suspected. Cause of death still undetermined.
Steven Garcia, nuclear weapons facility contractor at KCNSC Albuquerque, vanished August 28th 2025. Has not been seen since.
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What This Means
It is worth noting that three of the first nine cases involve direct connections to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Hicks worked there for 24 years. Maiwald was a JPL Principal. Reza was the incoming Director of Materials Processing. Three people from the same institution. NASA has not commented on any of them.
Ten people. NASA JPL. Los Alamos. MIT. The Air Force. A nuclear weapons manufacturing facility. Pharmaceutical research with Pentagon connections. Dead or missing across a roughly 33-month window with the same institutional fingerprints running through all of it.
Former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker told the Daily Mail that multiple foreign intelligence services including China, Russia, Pakistan, India, Iran, and North Korea have been targeting Americans with sensitive technology knowledge for decades.
Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett said the numbers in these specific research areas are very high and that we should not trust our government to be transparent about what is happening.
This is a conspiracy. Ten cases with this level of institutional overlap in this compressed a timeframe does not happen randomly. Someone or something is systematically removing the people who know the most about America’s most sensitive UFO and nuclear programs and the agencies responsible for investigating it are either unable or unwilling to connect the dots publicly.
The number keeps going up. Pay attention.
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