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Missing Scientists

Missing Scientists

Written by: Monica Reza UFO disclosure and the FBI investigation Amy Eskridge Melissa Casias Neil McCasland
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 Where is Neil McCasland? Where is Monica Reza? What happened to Amy Eskridge? Eleven Americans, dead or missing since 2022. All with access to America's most sensitive research. On February 27, 2026, a retired Air Force major general walked out of his Albuquerque home and disappeared into open desert. He left his prescription glasses on the kitchen table. He took a wallet, a pair of hiking boots, and a .38 revolver. His name is William Neil McCasland. He was commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson. Before that, Director of Special Programs for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense. Before that, directed-energy work at Kirtland. He spent thirty-three years on the most secret line in the United States national security apparatus. On the morning he vanished, no one could tell you where he had gone. His name didn't stay alone for long. A materials scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory named Monica Reza, who walked up a hiking trail in the Angeles National Forest and didn't come back. A Los Alamos employee named Melissa Casias, last seen on the shoulder of a New Mexico highway. An MIT plasma physicist named Nuno Loureiro, shot at his door. A Caltech astronomer named Carl Grillmair, shot on his porch. An anti-gravity researcher in Huntsville named Amy Eskridge. A retired Los Alamos foreman named Anthony Chavez. A property custodian at a national-security campus named Steven Garcia. A Novartis scientist named Jason Thomas, found in a Massachusetts lake when the ice broke. An Air Force intelligence veteran named Matthew Sullivan, dead before his scheduled testimony to Congress. And two more — both at JPL, both deaths undisclosed. On April 16, President Trump said it was "pretty serious stuff." On April 20, House Oversight Chairman James Comer demanded a federal briefing. The FBI is now spearheading the investigation. So are we. Missing Scientists is a long-form investigation into the deaths and disappearances the FBI is now reviewing — and the theories that have attached themselves to all of them. Foreign intelligence. Suppressed propulsion research. UFOs and UAP — the legacy programs the public was never told about, the questions Tom DeLonge's To The Stars Academy was founded to ask. MKUltra-style domestic operations to silence somebody about to talk. The disclosure questions the United States government has spent eighty years not answering. We will take every theory seriously enough to look at it in daylight. Then we will test what is actually provable. We start with Neil McCasland. Then Monica Reza. Then the rest. Hosted by Mike Davis in Washington, with co-host Catherine Lee and field reporter Tom Devereux. New episodes weekly. If you have something we should know, the case file is at missingscientists.com. Tip line, sources, documents, and a running timeline. Follow the show wherever you listen. We'll be back here when we know more. A production of The Narrative. Produced by Hunter Powers and Deborah Cavenaugh.2026 Missing Scientists Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences True Crime
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  • Where is Neil McCasland?

    Where is Neil McCasland?
    May 1 2026

    On February 27, 2026, retired Air Force general Neil McCasland walked out his Albuquerque back door and disappeared. He left his prescription glasses on the kitchen table. He took a wallet, a pair of hiking boots, and a .38 revolver.

    His name is William Neil McCasland. He spent thirty-three years on the most secret line in the United States national security apparatus — directed-energy work at Kirtland, Director of Special Programs for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, and finally commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson, the Air Force base from which the United States ran Project Blue Book and its two predecessor inquiries into reports of unidentified flying objects.

    After he retired, he took a brief unpaid consulting role with To The Stars Academy, the organization founded by the rock musician Tom DeLonge to investigate what the United States government knows about UFOs.

    His wife came home at twelve-oh-four. She called 911 at three-oh-seven. On the call, she said: *I think he planned not to be found.*

    Eight weeks later, no one — not the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office, not the FBI, not the United States Air Force — can tell you where he is.

    McCasland is one of eleven Americans on a list now under federal investigation. President Trump called the disappearances "pretty serious stuff" on April 16. House Oversight Chairman James Comer demanded a federal briefing on April 20. The FBI is now spearheading the inquiry.

    In Episode One, we walk through McCasland's career, the morning he vanished, and the inventory of what he left and what he took. Field reporter Tom Devereux files from the cul-de-sac on Quail Run Court NE in Albuquerque. We hear from Susan McCasland Wilkerson, Neil's wife, who has not given a television interview but has been talking publicly on Facebook — and steering the story. And we lay out the four theories this show is going to follow over the season ahead: foreign intelligence; UFO disclosure and legacy programs; MKUltra-style domestic operations to silence somebody about to talk; and the boring possibility that what we are watching is a country teaching itself a new conspiracy theory in real time.

    Next week: Monica Reza.

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    Missing Scientists is a long-form investigation into the eleven deaths and disappearances the FBI is now reviewing — Neil McCasland, Monica Reza, Amy Eskridge, Melissa Casias, Matthew Sullivan, Nuno Loureiro, Carl Grillmair, and four more — and the theories that have attached themselves to all of them.

    Hosted by Mike Davis in Washington, with co-host Catherine Lee and field reporter Tom Devereux. New episodes weekly.

    If you have something we should know, the case file is at missingscientists.com.

    Until we know more.

    A production of The Narrative. Produced by Hunter Powers and Deborah Cavenaugh.
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