Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, is raising concerns about nearly a dozen scientists associated with top-secret space research who have recently died or gone missing.
At least eleven U.S. scientists have gone missing or died over the
“It’s very unlikely that this is a coincidence,” he told Fox News on Monday. “So, Congress is very concerned about this. Our committee is making this one of our priorities now because we view this as a national security threat.”
At least eleven U.S. scientists have gone missing or died over the past several years, each involved in highly secretive space research. Comer stated that “there’s a high possibility that something sinister is taking place here.”
Americans and U.S. lawmakers have raised concerns about recent disappearances, bringing the issue to public attention. President Donald Trump addressed these concerns on Thursday, stating he attended a meeting regarding the disappearances and promised to investigate the matter.
This is Amy Eskridge.
She is one of the 11 scientists who has died/disappeared recently that’s linked to high government research and secrets.
Amy researched anti-gravity and in this clip reveals anti-gravity was already discovered 4 times, but each time the government… pic.twitter.com/ZxXopvxGO9
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“Some of them were very important people, and we are going to look at it over the next short period,” Trump said. “I hope it’s random, but we’re going to know in the next week and a half.”
The most recent of the 11 known scientists to go missing is retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, who vanished on February 27. McCasland was reportedly linked to top-secret government programs that involved information regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena.
“The White House is actively working with all relevant agencies and the FBI to holistically review all of the cases together and identify any potential commonalities that may exist. No stone will be unturned in this effort, and the White House will provide updates when we have them,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said last week.
🚨 James Comer Says the 11 Dead or Missing Scientist Mystery is Now Being Viewed as a ‘National Security Threat’
“It does appear that there’s a high possibility that something sinister is taking place here … We view this as a national security threat.” pic.twitter.com/qbXbxucM6z
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The 2022 death of Amy Eskridge, a Huntsville, Alabama–based researcher, resurfaced online last week as part of a series of cases involving American scientists connected to U.S. military, nuclear, and aerospace research, prompting questions in some quarters about whether a broader pattern may exist.
While officials have not confirmed any connection between the cases, the timing and the individuals’ links to advanced research fields have drawn increased public attention and speculation.
Eskridge died on June 11, 2022, in Huntsville, Alabama, at the age of 34, according to obituary records. Her death has been reported as a self-inflicted gunshot wound, though few additional official details have been publicly released, Fox noted further.
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Eskridge co-founded the Institute for Exotic Science and described her work as focusing on experimental propulsion concepts, including what she called “antigravity” research.
“We discovered antigravity, and our lives went to (expletive), and people started sabotaging us,” she said in a 2020 interview with YouTuber and paranormal researcher Jeremy Rys. “It’s harassment, threats. It’s awful.
“If you stick your neck out in public, at least someone notices if your head gets chopped off,” Eskridge added. “If you stick your neck out in private, they will bury you. They will burn down your house while you’re sleeping in your bed, and it won’t even make the news.”
In the same interview, she discussed the increasing pressure surrounding her work. “I have to publish because it’s only going to get worse until I publish,” she said, adding that the situation was “getting more and more aggressive.”
In her presentations and interviews, Eskridge noted that researchers working on unconventional technologies might experience pressure to remove their work from the public domain. She described a pattern where scientists who reported breakthroughs would “disappear” from public projects or cease publishing their findings.
Fox noted that Eskridge’s death is being cited alongside cases involving McCasland, NASA scientist Monica Jacinto Reza, contractor Steven Garcia, astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Nuno Loureiro, NASA engineer Frank Maiwald, Los Alamos–linked employees Melissa Casias and Anthony Chavez, NASA researcher Michael David Hicks and pharmaceutical scientist Jason Thomas.
