I have been covering this story since the first Daily Mail article dropped about an odd pattern of missing or dead UFO researchers and scientists tied to sensitive American information that are dead or missing and every time I think the list is complete another name gets added. The count is now nine.
Michael David Hicks, a research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who worked there from 1998 to 2022, died on July 30th, 2023 at the age of 59. No public cause of death. No health issues mentioned in any of his obituaries. Just gone, roughly one year after leaving JPL. NASA has not commented. His former institution has not commented. Nobody has said anything publicly about what killed him.
A NINTH scientist tied to UFO research and US Secrets added to the list:
Hicks published over 80 scientific papers during his career and was directly involved with the DART Project, NASA’s test to determine whether humans could deflect a dangerous asteroid away from Earth. He also worked on the Deep Space 1 Mission. This is someone with deep ties to some of the most sensitive work NASA has done in the last two decades.
Three of the nine scientists on this list now have direct connections to JPL. Hicks worked there for 24 years. Frank Maiwald, who died on July 4th 2024 at 61 with no autopsy and no public cause of death, was a JPL Principal, a designation reserved for scientists making outstanding individual contributions to their fields.
Monica Reza, JPL’s new Director of the Materials Processing Group, vanished without a trace in June 2025 just months after starting her role. Three people from the same institution. NASA has not commented on any of them.
Here is the full list as it stands right now.
Michael David Hicks, NASA JPL research scientist, died July 30th 2023. Age 59. No cause of death disclosed.
Frank Maiwald, NASA JPL Principal researcher, died July 4th 2024 in Los Angeles. Age 61. No autopsy. No cause of death. No public statement from NASA.
Monica Reza, NASA JPL Director of Materials Processing, disappeared June 22nd 2025 while hiking in the Angeles National Forest. 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.
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Nine people. NASA JPL. Los Alamos. MIT. The Air Force. Pharmaceutical research. Dead or missing across a roughly 33-month window. Several with documented connections to missile technology, nuclear research, asteroid deflection, fusion energy, and UAP programs.
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.
Nine cases with this level of institutional overlap across 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 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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