At least 10 individuals who worked on rocket research for U.S. government agencies, including some whose work may have brought them into contact with UFO reports, have died or disappeared in recent years. A House Committee is beginning to investigate:
The House Oversight Committee launched a probe Monday into reports of the mysterious disappearances or deaths of at least 10 scientists and researchers working in US nuclear or rocket technology, according to letters obtained by The Post.
“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,” wrote Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) in each of the four letters.
The missives to the FBI, Department of Energy, NASA and Department of War are demanding information about the US personnel who have vanished — including Michael David Hicks, who was employed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1998 to 2022.
Hicks died in 2023, but no autopsy or cause of death has been made publicly available.
NASA Lab Materials Processing Group Director Monica Reza also went missing in June 2023 while hiking, and retired Air Force Gen. William Neil McCasland disappeared in February of this year from his Albuquerque, NM, home without his prescription glasses or phone — and a .38 caliber revolver.
President Trump is said to be concerned:
The White House has convened an interagency effort to investigate as well, and President Trump said the preliminary information was “pretty serious stuff” after being briefed.
Sounds sinister, doesn’t it? But if 10 people have come to strange ends, the first question is, 10 out of how many? I agree with this guy:
Frank Rose, the former no. 2 at NNSA, told The Post that it’s unlikely a “connection” will be uncovered, but plenty of “crazy stuff” has happened in the past to scientists and researchers at their facilities.
“It wouldn’t surprise me if you look into each of these individual cases, there’s probably something more once you dig into it,” Rose said. “This would go right to the administrator and the deputy administrator. They don’t sweep stuff like this under the rug.”
“NNSA and the National Security Laboratory complex is a huge foreign intelligence target, but again, I have not seen any evidence that, you know, the deaths, when I was there, were connected in any way with a foreign intelligence organization,” he added.
Tens of thousands of people work for the agencies in question. The fact that ten or eleven of them die, or commit suicide, or even disappear, may or may not be noteworthy. It certainly doesn’t warrant an assumption that the Russians, Chinese or Iranians (let alone aliens!) must be responsible.
Quite a few years ago, I watched a “documentary” on John Kennedy’s assassination that promoted conspiracy theories. It concluded with a long, scrolling list of names of people who had something to do with the assassination and had since died. The suggestion was that the deaths of so many people constituted a mystery that required solution. It was superficially impressive, until you realized that 1) a large majority of those people had nothing in particular to do with the assassination, but simply happened to be in Dallas that day, in the general vicinity of where Oswald shot Kennedy, and 2) the deaths, happening by then over a period of quite a few years, were generally not mysterious at all. They included, for instance, 75 or 80 year old men who died of cancer.
I suspect that the current interest in the deaths or disappearances of 10 or 11 people having something to do with rocket science will prove to be similar. Some of those deaths may indeed be tragic or mysterious stories, but there will be no common thread–the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, aliens–linking them. Strange things happen in this world, as someone once said.
UPDATE: More on the non-newsworthiness of these deaths here.
