A space scientist in the US has been found dead after warning “my life is in danger” in the latest mysterious case.<\/p>\n
Eleven people who worked close to US space programs are now dead or have recently gone missing and Donald Trump has now vowed to uncover the truth.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsign up for Sun<\/span> Newsletter\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThank you!\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n US President says his goal will be to provide answers “in” next<\/span> One and a half weeks\u201d after leaving a top secret meeting on the subject.<\/p>\n The 11 people range from retired Air Force major generals to powerful space researchers who helped prevent asteroids from hitting Earth.<\/p>\n Employees at NASA, Los Alamos, MIT, and Caltech have all been involved in mysterious cases.<\/p>\n The latest person to be identified is Amy Eskridge, 34, who reportedly died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head in Huntsville, Alabama, on June 11, 2022.<\/p>\n out of this world<\/p>\n Vladimir Putin is ‘planning to send nuclear weapons into space’ as he plots global devastation<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n star wars<\/p>\n Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ready for explosive space race to land on the moon<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Before her death Amy was investigating and helping to develop anti-gravity technology.<\/p>\n public statement of an official Investigation<\/span> The details of his suicide were never disclosed \u2013 questions remain as to why he took his life.<\/p>\n Speculation of foul play surrounding his death has intensified in recent days, after he expressed serious concern over the consequences of his job in an interview.<\/p>\n Amy’s father, Richard, was a retired NASA engineer and the pair founded The Institute for Exotic Science.<\/p>\n The company was “the public-facing personality disclosing the anti-gravity technology” \u2013 unaffiliated with NASA.<\/p>\n She says in a 2020 interview: \u201cIf you stick your neck out in public, at least someone knows you’re decapitated.<\/p>\n “If you stick your neck out in private they will bury you, they will burn your house while you are sleeping in your bed and there will be nothing left.” news<\/span>. That is why this institute exists.\u201d<\/p>\n Before his death, Eskridge had also contacted retired British intelligence officer Frank Milburn for help investigating the harassment claims. <\/p>\n She claimed she was the victim of bullying tactics, including physical attacks.energy<\/span> Weapons\u201d, according to Milburn.<\/p>\n Journalist Michael Shellenberger also testified at a public hearing in the months following his death that Eskridge was “murdered by a private aerospace company”.<\/p>\n Eskridge was the first of five prominent researchers to die in the past four years.<\/p>\n The most talked about death was that of MIT’s physics professor. Nuno Loureiro, 47, was shot dead in his home in Brookline, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n He was murdered on December 15, 2025 as authorities accused gunman Claudio Neves Valente, a former classmate of Portugal.<\/p>\n Valente was also accused of carrying out the shooting at Brown University two days earlier.<\/p>\n Caltech astronomer Carl Grillmeyer, 67, was also shot in an unprovoked attack at his home in California on February 16, 2026.<\/p>\n Jason Thomas, a pharmaceutical researcher testing cancer treatments at Novartis, died after being found face down in a lake in March.<\/p>\n He was missing from the local for three months Police<\/span> in Massachusetts stating that his death was not the result of foul play.<\/p>\n Details regarding two other scientist deaths remain unclear.<\/p>\n NASA scientists Michael David Hicks and Frank Maiwald both died under unknown circumstances.<\/p>\n The pair worked at the US space agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab in California with Maiwald, 61, as the lead researcher on a vital project to detect clear signs of life on other worlds.<\/p>\n A few months before his passing, Hicks, aged 59, also died shortly after leaving NASA’s DART project, which tested whether humans could deflect dangerous asteroids away from Earth’s path.<\/p>\n Several other space scientists across the United States are missing and feared dead.<\/p>\n The most high profile is retired Air Force General William Neil McCasland, 68.<\/p>\n\n
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