Renowned physicist alarmed by 'unheard of' number of scientists dying or vanishing now on White House's radar

A famed theoretical physicist, bestselling writer and physics prof is alarmed by the documented inclination of high-level scientists, immoderate related to UFO research, who person oddly disappeared oregon died implicit the past respective years

"If a idiosyncratic disappears, it's a substance of immoderate concern. But if 10 scientists abruptly dice oregon vanish who each person precocious information clearance with entree to delicate research, this is origin for nationalist concern," Dr. Michio Kaku told Fox News Digital.

"This is unheard of," helium said. "This has ne'er happened before. The adjacent measurement is to find if determination is simply a single, communal thread to their probe that ties them to a circumstantial facet of nationalist security."

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Dr Michio Kaku is interviewed connected signifier connected the LiveWire! Radio Show astatine the Aladdin Theater connected April 11, 2009 successful Portland, Oregon. (Anthony Pidgeon/Redferns via Getty Images)

Kaku is besides a good known tv personality. He has appeared connected cablegram news, precocious nighttime and speech shows, on with respective episodes of the History Channel's "Universe" and "Ancient Aliens" series. In 2009, helium began hosting a play tv bid for the Science Channel "Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible."

The astir caller and salient illustration of this inclination is the mysterious disappearance of Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland (Ret.). He went missing from his New Mexico location connected Feb. 27, bringing lone a handgun and a brace of boots with him. He near his phone, keys and glasses behind,

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McCasland, 68, was the erstwhile commandant of the Air Force Research Laboratory, and reportedly possessed apical concealed accusation connected UFOs.

Ret. Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, 68, was reported missing successful New Mexico. (Kirtland Air Force Base; Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office)

He had ties to the Los Alamos National Laboratory successful the state. The laboratory famously developed atomic weapons during the WWII-era Manhattan Project. It is simply a Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) installation and prides itself connected breakthroughs successful the atomic exertion space.

Two different erstwhile employees of the laboratory person besides gone missing.

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Anthony Chavez, 79, worked determination until helium retired successful 2017, according to the Daily Mail. He was past seen leaving his location successful Los Alamos connected ft connected May 8, 2025, with his car locked successful his driveway. He did not bring his phone, wallet oregon keys connected his walk.

Anthony Chavez, 79, was reported missing May 8, 2025, aft helium was past seen leaving his location connected ft successful Los Alamos, New Mexico. Chavez, a retired worker of Los Alamos National Laboratory, near down his car, phone, wallet and keys, and his whereabouts stay unknown.  (New Mexico Department of Public Safety)

So, too, did missing pistillate Melissa Casias, who disappeared little than a period aft Chavez.

On the time she disappeared, she dropped disconnected luncheon for her girl and was ne'er seen again.

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The NNSA told Fox News Digital it is investigating the deaths and disappearances. 

"NNSA is alert of reports related to employees of our labs, plants and sites and is looking into the matter," a connection from the section said. 

Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory person besides conspicuously vanished oregon died.

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Monica Reza, an aerospace engineer, reportedly overseeing the lab's Materials Processing Group, which "focuses connected processing caller materials and precocious manufacturing technologies for spacecraft, specializing successful bulk metallic solid alloys and metallic additive manufacturing," disappeared past twelvemonth portion connected a hike successful the Angeles National Forest successful California.

Monica Reza, 60, an aerospace technologist astatine NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was reported missing June 22, 2025, aft disappearing portion hiking successful the Mount Waterman country of the Angeles National Forest successful California.  (Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department)

Michael David Hicks died connected July 30, 2023 astatine the property of 59.

He worked astatine the laboratory from 1998 to 2022, connected the abstraction program's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) project, which focused connected knowing the carnal properties of asteroids and comets, and whether they could beryllium re-directed successful outer space.

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His origin of decease has not been released.

The adjacent year, Frank Maiwald of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory besides died. He was lone 61, and his origin of decease is unknown.

He designed a captious instrumentality for a task called Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) – Visible to Shortwave Infrared (VSWIR), a aboriginal NASA ngo to motorboat a outer into abstraction and representation the "living color" of the Earth successful acold greater item than tin beryllium observed by the quality eye, according to his obituary.

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Just implicit a twelvemonth earlier helium died, helium was moving connected a programme to assistance astronauts connected abstraction missions place signs of beingness connected different planets, including Jupiter's moon, Europa, Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, oregon the dwarf satellite Ceres.

Frank Maiwald, 61, a idiosyncratic astatine NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, died July 4, 2024, authorities said. The origin of decease has not been released. (Obituary)

Carl Grillmair, besides linked to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was changeable and killed extracurricular of his location successful February. He was 47. A antheral named Freddy Snyder, 29, has been charged with his murder.

Grillmair was an astrophysicist and renowned probe idiosyncratic astatine Caltech’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, which partners with NASA's laboratory to supply "science operations, idiosyncratic support, archives and information services, and technological imaginativeness to maximize find with observatories some successful abstraction and connected the ground."

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Steven Garcia was a contractor astatine the Kansas City National Security Campus, which develops astir of the nonnuclear components that spell into gathering atomic weapons. He had a apical concealed information clearance. He went missing past August.

He was lone 48.

Steven Abel Garcia disappeared past August. (New Mexico Department of Public Safety)

Amy Eskridge, a Huntsville, Alabama–based researcher, co-founded the Institute for Exotic Science. She said her enactment focused connected experimental propulsion concepts, including what she referred to arsenic "antigravity" research.

She died connected June 11, 2022 of a self-inflicted gunshot coiled astatine property 34. Further details are scant.

She was seemingly spooked earlier her death.

"We discovered antigravity, and our lives went to (expletive) and radical started sabotaging us," she said successful a 2020 interrogation with YouTuber Jeremy Rys. "It’s harassment, threats. It’s awful.

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"If you instrumentality your cervix retired successful public, astatine slightest idiosyncratic notices if your caput gets chopped off," she continued. "If you instrumentality your cervix retired successful private, they volition hide you. They volition pain down your location portion you’re sleeping successful your bed, and it won’t adjacent marque the news."

The National UFO Reporting Center was founded successful 1974 by noted UFO researcher Robert J. Gribble. The Center’s superior relation implicit the past 5 decades has been to receive, record, and to the top grade possible, corroborate and papers reports from individuals who person been witnesser to unusual, perchance UFO-related events.  (Department of Defense)

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News of the signifier of disappearances has made its mode to the White House, which addressed it connected Friday.

"In airy of the caller and morganatic questions astir these troubling cases and President Trump’s committedness to the truth, the White House is actively moving with each applicable agencies and the FBI to holistically reappraisal each of the cases unneurotic and place immoderate imaginable commonalities that whitethorn exist," Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said successful a Friday X post.

"No chromatic volition beryllium unturned successful this effort, and the White House volition supply updates erstwhile we person them."

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On Thursday, President Donald Trump said helium had a gathering regarding the unusual occurrences, and described the concern arsenic "pretty serious."

So far, determination is nary authoritative nexus betwixt immoderate of the deaths oregon disappearances.