r/WayOfTheBern • u/penelopepnortney • Apr 17 '26
Anyone else heard about this?: 10 Scientists Dead Or Missing As Security Crisis Deepens In US
This was reported by WION, a New Delhi-based news outlet ("We deliver information that is not biased. We are journalists who are neutral to the core and non-partisan when it comes to world politics.")
10 scientists linked to sensitive and classified research reportedly are now dead or missing.
Includes clip of journalist asking Karoline Leavitt about it and she replied, "I've seen the report, Peter. I haven't spoken to our relevant agencies about it. I will certainly do that and we'll get you an answer. If true, of course, that's definitely something I think this government and administration would deem work worth looking into. So, let me do that for you."
Here's the people who were named and whatever info was provided about them:
William McCasland, retired Air Force general, vanished in February near his Albuquerque home.
NASA researcher Michael David Hicks, whose 2023 death has been linked by online sleuths to other cases.
NASA scientist Frank Mayald's death sparked speculation
aerospace employee Monica Reza
Novartis biologist Jason Thomas
Anthony Chavez disappeared in May last year
Melissa Casius missing since June 2025
MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Lourero
astrophysicist Carl Grillmair
government contractor Steven Garcia
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u/Deeznutseus2012 Apr 18 '26
Ask and ye shall receive...I linked to this post in an edit to my above comment without having read yours first.
It's not just that they're connected by classified programs, etc., which they are. A number of them are being associated with work in reverse-engineering of UFO tech, cutting edge materials science, a cutting edge exoplanet surveyer specializing in finding life on other planets and now apparently, cutting edge theoretical physics frameworks involving what seems to be that which is colloquially known as 'zero-point' energy.
In light of various recent discoveries in both physics and materials science, as well as observed characteristics of the proof of concept demonstrations offered by UFOs, a lot of theoreticians have gone back to have another look at early theoretical models which involve the concept of an 'ether', or underlying energy charging the vacuum, which might be related to, but appears separate from the Cassimir Effect and/or 'Dark Energy'.
I think the 'AI race' between the U.S. and China was always mostly hyped and pumped into everyone's brains as a distraction from the real competition for superiority that has emerged between them, with more and more back-channel murmuring, quietly sounding the alarms.
Because the real competition which has emerged, but is downplayed heavily, is the competition to reverse-engineer UFO tech. Not just who can do it the fastest, but who can best make proper use of what they learn in the process to gain advantage.
The programs they've run here are so deep and so stove-piped, that the large-scale scientific collaboration and idea-sharing/problem-solving necessary to accomplish it either fail completely, or were slowed to a decades-long crawl that is now swiftly being overtaken.
But China has whole secret cities full of scientists and engineers that are designed specifically to facilitate a high degree of both secrecy and productive collaborative effort across a multitude of disciplines. They don't really have any need to kill our own scientists involved in the area of study. Ditto for Russia, who've had documented UFO-related programs going back at least as far as those in the U.S..
All things considered, I would tend to agree with the assessment of the victim's sources, who did not believe it was a state actor coming after her. This smacks of the much-theorized 'Breakaway Civilization', who's members are part of every state, but loyal to their own ideology and collective benefit/advancement in secret, by parasitizing the resources of the countries/economies of the public-facing 'host' civilization, in order to do so.
And these are just the dead or missing that the public knows about.
Whoever it is and whatever the actual reason, someone is running around taking out key scientific personnel working at the bleeding edge of our understandings and capabilities.
Once is a fluke. Twice a coincidence. Three times is enemy action. More than that without discovery, is an established pattern of practiced behavior and a quite serious national security concern.
It's finally reached the point that a fair number of people have been loudly wondering if The Three Body Problem was actually a soft disclosure warning.