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A hiker in New Mexico’s Carson National Forest has discovered the remains of Melissa Casias, a 54-year-old worker at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Casias was reported missing in June 2025 after failing to show up for work. Her purse, identification, and cellphones were left behind, sparking serious concern. A handgun was found alongside her body in the McGaffey Ridge area, but the cause and manner of death remain undetermined pending further examination.
29-Year-Old NASA Nuclear Propulsion Engineer Who Was Reported Missing Found Dead in Burned-Out Tesla Wreck:
Another death is resurfacing amid renewed attention in what is becoming an alarming and disturbing pattern of “accidental” deaths involving America’s top nuclear and aerospace scientists.
A 29-year-old NASA engineer specializing in nuclear propulsion technology was found burned beyond recognition inside his charred Tesla after a fiery single-vehicle crash in rural Alabama last July.
According to Fox News, Joshua LeBlanc was a rising star at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, the heart of America’s space and defense rocket programs.
He specialized in nuclear propulsion technology, serving as team lead for NASA’s Space Nuclear Propulsion (SNP) Instrumentation and Control maturation and later on the high-stakes Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) project, a nuclear thermal propulsion engine designed to revolutionize travel to Mars and beyond.
LeBlanc’s Tesla Model 3 was discovered burned beyond recognition around 2:45 p.m. on July 22, 2025, after veering off the road, slamming into a guardrail and several trees on Hill Road near Drummond Switch Cut Off Road in Walker County, about two hours from his Huntsville home.
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency confirmed the vehicle erupted in flames, leaving little for investigators to work with.
But here’s where the story gets even more troubling, and raises serious red flags about potential foul play or a major cover-up.
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.”
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.
This is not a coincidence.
All of these scientists and researchers from similar backgrounds and scientific work getting murdered and disappearing off the face of the earth.
Kash Patel needs to get to the bottom of this. Either someone is systematically murdering these people, or there’s an incredible string of bad luck. Either way, it needs to be solved.
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