We have covered this story twice now and each time we do the number goes up. When we first wrote about it there were five. Then six. The Daily Mail published a new report on March 31st and the count is now eight. Two new cases have been added to a pattern that is becoming impossible to dismiss as coincidence.
Two scientists connected to UFO research and sensitive information:
Frank Maiwald was a prominent researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who died in Los Angeles on July 4th, 2024 at the age of 61. Nobody has ever disclosed his cause of death. Authorities confirmed they never performed an autopsy. NASA has never publicly commented on his death. He has been dead for nearly two years and there is no public record of what killed him.
Anthony Chavez was a former worker at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nuclear research facility founded during the Manhattan Project, who disappeared without a trace on May 4th, 2025. No explanation. No resolution. Gone.
The Full Picture
That brings the complete list to eight people, all connected in varying degrees to nuclear research, advanced propulsion, satellite systems, NASA, or UFO and UAP programs, who have died or vanished under suspicious circumstances since mid-2024.
Monica Reza, a NASA scientist, disappeared while hiking in the Angeles National Forest on June 22nd, 2025. Two friends saw her thirty feet away. They looked back and she was gone. No trace.
Melissa Casias, an administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, vanished on June 26th, 2025. Both of her phones were found at home wiped clean after a factory reset.
Retired Major General Neil McCasland, who oversaw the Air Force’s $2.2 billion science and technology program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and was named in the 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 and 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. Authorities identified the gunman as a former classmate from Portugal.
Carl Grillmair, a 67-year-old astrophysicist, was shot and killed on his front porch at six in the morning on February 16th, 2026.
Jason Thomas, a pharmaceutical researcher testing cancer treatments at Novartis, was found dead in a lake in Wakefield, Massachusetts on March 17th, 2026 after disappearing three months earlier. Police said no foul play is suspected. His cause of death has still not been determined.
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What Congress Is Saying
Republican Congressman Tim Burchett told the Daily Mail that several of these people have disappeared under suspicious circumstances and that the public ought to be paying attention.
He called McCasland’s disappearance a major national security issue, noting the general was privy to America’s nuclear secrets and had worked with recovered UFO technology.
Eight people.
Nuclear labs. UFOs. NASA JPL. MIT. The Air Force. Pharmaceutical research with Pentagon contracts. Dead or missing across a roughly twenty-month window. Several with documented connections to each other and to programs that deal in classified knowledge about advanced propulsion, energy, and extraterrestrial phenomena.
The Daily Mail stops well short of claiming a conspiracy but I won’t.
This is a conspiracy.
Eight cases with this much institutional overlap in this compressed a timeframe does not happen randomly. Someone or something is systematically eliminating the people who know the most about America’s most sensitive scientific programs and nobody in a position of power is treating it with the urgency it deserves.
A congressman giving quotes to a tabloid is not an investigation. A few local news segments is not accountability. This pattern has been building for twenty months and the national media has largely ignored it.
The number keeps going up. At some point that stops being a coincidence and starts being a body count.
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