Full Timeline

Amy Eskridge dies — antigravity researcher, co-founder of Institute for Exotic Science, Huntsville AL. Age 34. Said publicly she was “scared” and felt “escalating aggression.” No official police or ME report ever released.

Michael David Hicks dies — NASA JPL research scientist, 24 years. DART mission, Deep Space 1. Age 59. No cause of death disclosed, no autopsy, no NASA or JPL statement.

Dr. Philip Leonard killed — LANL high explosives synthesis chemist. Nuclear weapon trigger design. Three-vehicle crash on NM-501 outside Los Alamos. No crash cause determination ever publicly released. (Candidate — not in mainstream list)

Matthew Sullivan dies — USAF intelligence officer, NASIC Deputy Director at Wright-Patterson. Age 39. Bronze Star recipient. Reported suicide — 2 weeks before scheduled UAP whistleblower testimony before Congress. IC Inspector General had flagged “severe allegations of misconduct and potentially unlawful activities.”

Frank Maiwald dies — NASA JPL Principal Researcher (highest individual honor). Led 2023 biosignature detection breakthrough. Age 61. No cause of death disclosed, no autopsy performed, no NASA statement.

Charles McMillan killed — 10th Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Head-on collision at 5:16 AM on road leading to LANL. Other driver crossed center line with no explanation or memory. DA: insufficient evidence for felony — three petty misdemeanors only. (Candidate — not in mainstream list)

Anthony Chavez vanishes — former Los Alamos National Laboratory employee. Age 78. Left home on foot, car locked in driveway. Exhaustive search produced nothing. Never found.

Dr. William “Bill” Deininger dies — JPL alumni, plasma physicist, BAE Systems Technical Fellow. No cause of death disclosed. Died one day before Monica Reza vanished. (Candidate — not in mainstream list)

Monica Reza vanishes — JPL Director of Materials Processing, Mondaloy superalloy co-inventor. Funded by McCasland’s AFRL from 1999. Vanished 30 feet from hiking companion — smiling and waving — then gone. No body recovered.

Melissa Casias vanishes — LANL administrative assistant with top security clearance. Factory-reset both phones before walking out on foot. Left car, keys, wallet, all money. Surveillance camera: walking east on NM-518. Remains found May 30, 2026 in Carson National Forest with handgun. Cause of death pending.

Gary Wilson Phillips dies — Naval Research Laboratory physicist. No cause of death disclosed. Found only in a UMD department memorial alongside two other NRL-connected physicists who died the same summer. (Candidate — not in mainstream list)

Andrew C. Victor dies — rocket propulsion physicist. No cause of death or employer disclosed. Died between Reza vanishing (Jun 22) and Garcia vanishing (Aug 28). Specialty directly overlaps with Reza and Mondaloy. (Candidate — not in mainstream list)

Joshua LeBlanc dies — NASA nuclear propulsion engineer, DRACO mission team lead. Age 29. Reported missing at 4:32 AM. Tesla tracked to Huntsville airport (sat 4 hours), then crashed and burned on back roads at 2:45 PM. Body burned beyond recognition. Family says movements didn’t match his plans.

Frank C. Young dies — Naval Research Laboratory physicist, former UMD Cyclotron researcher (nuclear particle accelerator). No cause of death disclosed. Third NRL/defense physicist in same memorial, same summer. (Candidate — not in mainstream list)

Steven Garcia vanishes — property custodian, Kansas City National Security Campus (80%+ of US nuclear weapon non-nuclear components). Age 48. Left home in camouflage on foot with a handgun. No phone, no wallet. Never found.

3 Wright-Patterson AFRL personnel die — Jaime Gustitus (711th Human Performance Wing), Jacob Prichard (AFRL researcher), Jaymee Prichard (AFLCMC). Murder-suicide. No investigative findings ever publicly released.

Jason Thomas goes missing — Novartis cancer treatment researcher. Body found in Massachusetts lake March 2026. No foul play suspected by investigators.

Nuno Loureiro murdered — Director, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center. Reportedly near a fusion energy breakthrough. Shot by former Portuguese classmate who also carried out Brown University shooting 2 days earlier. “Case closed.”

Carl Grillmair murdered — Caltech astrophysicist, NEOWISE and NEO Surveyor. Connected to Air Force missile tracking technology. Shot on porch of rural Llano, CA home at 6 AM. Suspect charged in carjacking/burglary spree. “Case closed.”

Trump signs UAP disclosure directive — orders all agencies to identify and release UAP files. Four days later, the man with legal visibility over every classified DoD program walks out of his home and is never seen again.

Gen. Neil McCasland vanishes — Ret. USAF Major General, former AFRL Commander, SAP Oversight Committee executive secretary. 8 days after Trump UAP disclosure order. Left without phone, glasses, or wearables. Carried revolver. Wife told 911 he “planned not to be found.” Still missing.

Classified congressional SCIF briefing — held regarding McCasland disappearance and UAP programs. Rep. Burlison: “one of the most bipartisan topics in Washington.” Content not made public.

Story breaks nationally — White House acknowledges the cluster. Trump: “pretty serious stuff … I hope it’s random.” Press Secretary: “no stone will be unturned.” Physicist Michio Kaku calls pattern “unheard of.” NNSA confirms investigating.

Moffatt family killed in plane crash — James “Tony” Moffatt (60), aerospace defense engineer, NASA JSC veteran of 14 Shuttle missions, Army test pilot, UAH researcher. Killed with son Andrew (30, UAH research engineer), wife Leasa (61), and son William (28). Mooney M20 crashed near Union County Airport, SC during refueling stop. NTSB/FAA investigating.

David Wilcock dies — UAP disclosure researcher, author, Ancient Aliens. Age 53. Apparent self-inflicted gunshot at Colorado home. Two days prior posted video warning missing scientists were “scary.” Had publicly stated he was not suicidal. Biographer Wynn Free died two days before him.

House Oversight formally demands answers — Comer and Burlison issue formal letters to FBI, DOE, DOD, and NASA demanding staff-level briefings by April 27. “If the reports are accurate, these deaths may represent a grave threat to U.S. national security.”

FBI confirms investigation — FBI spokesperson to Fox News Digital: “The FBI is spearheading the effort to look for connections into the missing and deceased scientists.” First formal confirmation FBI is treating cases as potentially linked.

Coverage explodes — CBS News, Scientific American, Fortune, Newsweek, Axios all publish. FBI told Fortune it is working with DOE, DOD, and state/local law enforcement. Comer: “Once you see the facts, it would suggest that something sinister could be happening.”

LeBlanc story breaks — Fox News reveals Joshua LeBlanc, 29-year-old NASA nuclear propulsion engineer, found dead in burned Tesla in July 2025. Case count rises. Families of Casias, Grillmair, Hicks, and Thomas push back on conspiracy framing. NASA rejects “national security threat” label.

Boulder County Coroner confirms Wilcock suicide — self-inflicted gunshot wound at 11:02 AM on April 20. Deputies had arrived after 911 call describing a mental health crisis and found him outside holding a weapon.

DOE selects 5 companies for surplus plutonium — Oklo, Standard Nuclear, SHINE, Flibe Energy, and Exodys Energy selected to receive 20 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium under the Surplus Plutonium Utilization Program. Los Alamos — where Casias, Chavez, and former director McMillan (killed 2024) worked — is a primary source. Oklo CEO sits on PCAST. First private transfer of weapons-grade material in U.S. history.

McCasland bodycam: dinner with Space Force, new medication — bodycam footage reveals McCasland dined with U.S. Space Force personnel the night before vanishing. Witness said he “wasn’t his usual self — spacey and quiet.” Wife revealed new medication prescribed for sleep, weight loss, and anxiety. He described feeling like “the after-effects of a bad hangover” the morning he disappeared.

Melissa Casias remains found — hiker discovered human remains May 28 in Carson National Forest (McGaffey Ridge). NM State Police confirmed ID May 30. Handgun recovered alongside body. Cause of death not yet determined. First body recovery in the NM missing cluster.