Republican Rep. Eric Burlison, who is on the House Oversight Committee, is demanding a full federal investigation into a disturbing wave of deaths and disappearances involving top U.S. scientists working on classified aerospace, defense, and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP/UFO) programs, calling the pattern “too coincidental” to ignore.
Burlison told Fox & Friends on Friday morning that his office had been tracking the cases for over a year.
The congressman stressed that the scientists had access to highly sensitive information and many reported feeling threatened before vanishing or turning up dead.
“This is too coincidental, and so we have to be investigating this,” Burlison said. “We need to have our nation’s top investigators, the FBI, and every agency looking into this matter.”
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“They just literally disappeared, left all of their devices at home. This is not normal.”
The White House is investigating the mysterious deaths and disappearances of 10 scientists connected to nuclear and space research.
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President Donald Trump announced Thursday that his administration is already reviewing the cases.
The list now stands at 11 high-level researchers. Many left behind phones, wallets, and other devices when they disappeared, a detail Burlison called highly unusual for individuals in national security roles.
The latest name drawing attention is Amy Eskridge, a 34-year-old aerospace researcher from Huntsville, Alabama, who died on June 11, 2022.
Authorities initially ruled her death a suicide by self-inflicted gunshot wound, but the case is now being re-examined due to the emerging pattern.
Eskridge was president of The Institute for Exotic Science, a company which she founded specifically to create a “public-facing persona” for disclosing anti-gravity technology and related breakthroughs.
She had been researching advanced propulsion systems, gravity modification, and topics involving UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
According to a report from the New York Post, in a 2020 interview, Eskridge explicitly warned that she felt escalating threats and said she needed to go public soon for her own safety.
“I need to disclose soon, man. I need to publish soon because it’s like escalating. It’s getting more and more aggressive,” Eskridge said.
“This has been going on for like four or five years, and over the past 12 months, it’s been escalating, like more aggressive, more invasive digging through my underwear drawer and sexual threats.”
She told associates that going public was safer than keeping the work private, stating, “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.”
Retired British intelligence officer Franc Milburn, who partnered with Eskridge to investigate the harassment, submitted findings to Congress in 2023.
Milburn concluded her death was not a suicide and alleged she had been subjected to multiple physical and psychological attacks, including a suspected “directed energy weapon” incident that caused microwave burns on her body, according to a report from the Daily Mail.
Eskridge’s father, Richard Eskridge, is a longtime NASA plasma physicist, adding another layer of high-level scientific connections to the case.
Other cases in the growing list include:
Air Force Maj. Gen. William “Neil” McCasland, who disappeared from his Albuquerque, New Mexico home on February 27, 2026, after leaving all devices behind. He had previously been contacted about UAP research and appeared in WikiLeaks Podesta emails tied to UFO discussions.
Melissa Casias and Anthony Chavez, both linked to Los Alamos National Laboratory (vanished in 2025).
Steven Garcia, who worked security for non-nuclear weapon components (missing August 2025).
Aerospace engineer Monica Jacinto Reza (missing June 2025).
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer Frank Maiwald (died 2024).
MIT physicist Nuno Loureiro (shot dead in December 2025).
Caltech exoplanet researcher Carl Grillmair (killed February 2026).
Novartis chemical biology team leader Jason Thomas (found dead in March 2026).
Burlison has not ruled out foreign adversaries such as China, Russia, or Iran as possible actors targeting America’s top scientific talent. He called for bipartisan support for a thorough probe to protect national security assets.
No official connections between the cases have been confirmed by authorities, but the timing, shared backgrounds in classified programs, and reports of prior threats have fueled widespread speculation, especially given the UFO and advanced propulsion angles.
Gateway Pundit will continue to follow this developing story as the Trump administration’s investigation unfolds.
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