Posted on 04/17/2026 11:40:53 AM PDT by BFW
President Donald Trump has announced that the White House is investigating the mysterious deaths and disappearances of eleven officials connected by their work on secret space and nuclear technology.
The disappearance of retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William “Neil” McCasland has intensified scrutiny over a growing number of cases involving scientists and officials tied to sensitive U.S. defense and research programs.
The total number is now at least 11 individuals after new links to the suspicious death of anti-gravity scientist Amy Eskridge emerged.
McCasland, 68, vanished from his Albuquerque, New Mexico home on Feb. 27 under unusual circumstances.
According to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office, he left behind his phone, prescription glasses, and wearable devices, but his wallet and a .38-caliber revolver were missing.
Authorities say there was no indication he was disoriented at the time.
“Arguably, he would still be the most intelligent person in the room,” Albuquerque Police Lt. Kyle Wood said.
President Trump acknowledged the situation publicly, telling reporters the matter had reached the White House and is being investigated.
“I hope it’s random, but we’re going to know in the next week and a half,” Trump said.
“I just left a meeting on that subject.”
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Doesn't this seem like the opening for standard Syfy movie or Bond film?
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It is the illegal aliens.... from somewhere.
We grab people all the time. The only reason we have a space program is because we grabbed a professor, Wernher Von Braun. The Israeli’s either grab people or bribe them or kill them every other day. Apparently someone’s just grabbing some of our guys.
Wouldn’t it be crazy if Elon, Trump, or someone was dropping cadavers in place of these people and whisking them off to some secret lab a la Andromeda Strain to secretly plot out interstellar travel?
I could see it happening.
It could be evidence of something intentional and sinister.
Or
The article suggests that these individuals were involved with diverse programs and agencies employing thousands of people. Could just be coincidence. Given a large group of people, some odd deaths and disappearances wouldn’t be unusual.
My guess, we will never know the truth.
Why bother? If anything points back to politically connected individuals, they will mask out the names.
The closest we will come to knowing what happened is right now. The more time passes, the less clues will be available.
You are correct. Likely, we will never know the truth.
Possibly.
Then there is the explanation of the National Enquirer wannabe:
lol
These people aren't just folks in a large group. Some are/were very high on the scientific food chain.
Missing scientists - Ping
We grab people all the time.
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Are all these people missing?
Or are were some of them found dead under mysterious conditions?
I mean, it’s bad enough if our scientists are being assassinated. So don’t get me wrong.
But it’s way worse if they are being “grabbed” as you put it.
Not to be naive, but when we grabbed germans for operation paperclip, that was war-time. A hot war.
‘grabbing’ civilians during peace time is a very creepy concept to consider.
Does Hillary have an alibi already prepared?
It was also to keep Russia from getting them first.
I’ve wondered if this was tit for tat with the Iranians in response to us killing their nuclear scientists.
Great point. Not to take the thread on too much of a tangent, but for people who don’t understand the contexts of the brewing cold war at the time between Russia and the West and ask why would actually take german scientists rather than treat them like war criminals, you have to understand that it was addition by subtraction, of a sort. Every scientist that we ‘grabbed’ was one less scientist that the Soviets could get.
Other than just summary executions to keep them away from the Russians, there was no other way.
Now, one could argue that we are in a brewing cold war with the Chinese communists, and also with the west-hating islamists, so again, perhaps I (we?) are being naive, but it still seems extreme that our scientists are befalling this fate.
Who benefits from such “addition by subtraction” of our scientists?
The Russians took out several US aerospace researchers in Europe in the 1980s.
That occurred after the war.
wow bud. Don’t be touchy. The Mossad are very good at gathering people and intelligence. Like the Cia and mi6. Those are the only good intelligence agencies on earth. They’re the only three choices on the planet.
“...he left behind his phone, prescription glasses, and wearable devices, but his wallet and a .38-caliber revolver were missing.”
Ditched his trackable gizmos but took his ID and gun. Sounds like they just haven’t found his body yet.
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