NASA coordinating with relevant agencies in missing scientists probe

NASA said connected Monday that it volition enactment with different national agencies to analyse the deaths and disappearances of 11 atomic and abstraction scientists, raising concerns successful Washington astir whether they were targeted for their work.

"NASA is coordinating and cooperating with the applicable agencies successful narration to the missing scientists," NASA spokesperson Bethany Stephens wrote connected X. "At this time, thing related to NASA indicates a nationalist information threat. The bureau is committed to transparency and volition supply much accusation arsenic it becomes available."

Hours earlier, the White House property caput was asked by Fox News White House analogous Peter Doocy astir the matter.

"In airy of the caller and morganatic questions astir these troubling cases, and President Trump’s committedness to the truth, the White House is actively moving with each applicable agencies and the FBI to holistically reappraisal each of the cases unneurotic and place immoderate imaginable patterns," Karoline Leavitt aboriginal wrote connected societal media.

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Jason Thomas, left, Melissa Casias, center, and Frank Maiwald are among scientists whose deaths oregon disappearances person drawn scrutiny arsenic officials reappraisal whether immoderate cases are connected. (Fox News: Sierra Casias: Legacy.com)

At slightest 11 radical person either died oregon vanished since 2022. The immense bulk were progressive successful atomic subject and abstraction research, with immoderate connected to the survey of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs).

Michael David Hicks, 59; Frank Maiwald, 61; Nuno Loureiro, 47; Jason Thomas, 45; Amy Eskridge, 34; and Carl Grillmair, 47, each died betwixt 2023 and 2026. Each played a cardinal relation successful captious technological research, Fox News Digital antecedently reported.

The causes of decease for Hicks and Maiwald stay unknown. Grillmair was gunned down extracurricular his location connected Feb. 16, and Freddy Snyder, 29, was subsequently charged with his murder. Loureiro was besides fatally changeable astatine his Massachusetts home.

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President Donald Trump spoke to reporters extracurricular the Oval Office astatine the White House connected April 13, successful Washington, D.C. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

The assemblage of Jason Thomas, an subordinate manager of chemic biology astatine Novartis, was discovered successful Lake Quannapowitt, Mass., 3 months aft helium was past seen walking from his location precocious astatine night. Eskridge, a Huntsville, Alabama–based researcher, died June 11, 2022, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Monica Reza, 60; Melissa Casias, 53; Anthony Chavez, 79; Steven Garcia, 48; and retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, 68, were each reported missing betwixt 2023 and 2026. All the disappearances occurred nether suspicious circumstances.

On Sunday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., warned that "something sinister" could beryllium involved.

"We've enactment a announcement retired to the Department of War, the FBI, NASA, and the Department of Energy. We privation to cognize everything they cognize astir what happened with these scientists, due to the fact that those 4 agencies were predominantly the ones these 11 individuals were affiliated with," helium said during an quality connected "Fox & Friends Weekend." "We privation to effort to portion this together."

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Comer said helium plans to bring leaders from NASA, the FBI, and different national agencies earlier Congress. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has vowed to analyse the occurrences.

"I anticipation it's random, but we're going to cognize successful the adjacent week and a half," Trump told reporters past week. "I conscionable near a gathering connected that subject."

Fox News Digital's Julia Bonavita, Max Becall and Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.