At least ten American scientists- many of them working on UFOs, nuclear security or deep space research- have died or vanished without explanation since mid-2023 and the White House said that it is now
taking the troubling pattern seriously.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that he had not yet spoken to relevant agencies about the cases but pledged to find answers. She said, “If true, of course, that’s definitely something I think this government and its administration would deem worth looking into. So let me do that for you.”
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The Curious Case Of Missing US Scientists
The cluster of cases reads like something out of a Cold War thriller. Among those who have vanished is Steven Garcia, a government contractor who disappeared on August 28, 2025, after working at the Kansas City National Security Campus in Albuquerque. Monica Reza, who served as director of materials processing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, also vanished in June 2025. A colleague at the same facility, scientist Frank Maiwald, died without any public cause of death being disclosed.
Anthony Chavez, a staffer at the storied Los Alamos National Laboratory- the birthplace of the atomic bomb- has also mysteriously disappeared. One of the earlier and more striking cases is that of Michael David Hicks, a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory research scientist who died on July 30, 2023, at age 59, again with no public cause of death given. Hicks was a prolific figure in the scientific community, having authored more than 80 research papers and contributed to high-profile missions including the DART Project, which famously redirected an asteroid and the Deep Space 1 Mission.
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Eric Burlison, a Missouri Republican, has already called on the FBI to open investigations into the cases. He wrote on X (formerly Twitter) in March, “The disappearance of multiple scientists and military personnel with ties to advanced research is deeply concerning. I’ve already requested FBI involvement and we will keep pressing for answers.”
