FBI investigating missing, dead scientists who had access to classified information: 'SOMETHING SINISTER'

· Toronto Sun

The FBI has launched an investigation into the possible connections of 11 missing or dead scientists amid growing national security concerns that they may have been targeted over what they knew.

The agency said in a statement on Tuesday it is “spearheading the effort to look for connections into the missing and deceased scientists. We are working with the Department of Energy, Department of War, and with our state and state and local law enforcement partners to find answers.”

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The FBI’s announcement comes after the House Oversight Committee said in letters on Monday it was demanding answers from four federal agencies on the deaths and disappearances of at least 11 American scientists and researchers with ties to the space program, nuclear research, and classified defence programs.

“If the reports are accurate, these deaths and disappearances may represent a grave threat to U.S. national security and to U.S. personnel with access to scientific secrets,” Reps. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the committee, and Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) wrote.

NASA wading into the probe

NASA said on Monday that it will work with the agencies in the investigation.

“NASA is coordinating and cooperating with the relevant agencies in relation to the missing scientists,” spokesperson Bethany Stephens wrote on X.

“At this time, nothing related to NASA indicates a national security threat,” she continued. “The agency is committed to transparency and will provide more information as it becomes available.”

President Donald Trump told reporters last week that he had been briefed on the missing and dead scientists, which he described as “pretty serious stuff,” and hoped the cases were simply “random.”

A ‘national security threat’?

However, Comer warned that there could be “something sinister” surrounding the cases, telling Fox & Friends Weekend on Sunday that the Oversight Committee has essentially put the Department of War, the FBI, NASA, and the Department of Energy on blast on what they are viewing as a “national security threat.”

“We want to know everything they know about what happened with these scientists, because those four agencies were predominantly the ones these 11 individuals were affiliated with,” he said. “We want to try to piece this together.”

In an appearance on Fox & Friends last Friday, Burlison said the the cases were “too coincidental” and “not normal” — and even suggested that bad actors from China, Russia or Iran could be involved.

“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,” Burlison said.

What did they know and did they know too much?

Most of the 11 missing or dead were involved in nuclear science and space research, with some connected to the study of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs).

Some had ties to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, and some were directly connected to the space defence technologies now being commercialized by SpaceX and Blue Origin.

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 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)
Amy Eskridge, researcher of anti-gravity technology, UFOs and extraterrestrial life (died on June 11, 2022)

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)
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)

Grillmair and Loureiro were fatally shot outside their homes, while Eskridge died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Thomas’ body was discovered in Lake Quannapowitt, Mass., three months after he was last seen walking from his home.

The causes of death for Hicks and Maiwald remain unknown.

Reza, Casias, Chavez, Garcia, and McCasland were all reported missing under suspicious circumstances.

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