[@JesseMichels] This Top General Pushed UFO Disclosure. Now He’s Missing [Here’s Why…]

Link: https://youtu.be/wlsQIbpEKSM

Duration: 107 min

Short Summary

This episode traces a disturbing pattern of disappearances and violent deaths among scientists and military officials connected to classified aerospace, UAP programs, and advanced research—including retired Air Force General Neil McCasslin, NASA material scientist Monica Resza, astronomer Carl Gilmare, and plasma physicist Nuno Lurero—all under suspicious circumstances that hint at systematic targeting of individuals with knowledge of secret weapons and exotic technology. The evidence spans government-funded projects, black-budget research, and historical episodes like the 1982-1990 deaths of 25 British engineers on GEC Marconi defense contracts, raising questions about cover-ups and suppression of knowledge.

Key Quotes

1. "a man who knew more about America's most classified science programs than about 99.9999% of our population vanished from his house without tripping a single camera." (00:00:27)
2. "The people closest to the edges of what we know, the ones rewriting the rules of physics, scanning the sky for threats we can't see yet, and unlocking the science that shapes the next century. These are the ones we keep losing. Their minds were the prize. They were the ones taking us into the future, and they are now disappearing." (00:48:06)
3. "When Roswell crashed, they shipped it to the laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. General McCassland was in charge of that exact laboratory up to a couple years ago." (00:28:12)
4. "There has arisen uh an insurgency group that have uh occupied extremely high positions uh in the defense department uh inside the central intelligence agency uh inside some of the private aerospace corporations uh and uh inside the the military services. Okay. And I happen to know who they are. Okay. And what they've done is they've formed an association uh and that they're working to try to drag the program back into the government." (00:51:28)
5. "Neil does not have any special knowledge about the ET bodies and debris from the Roswell crash stored at Wright Pad." (00:28:25)

Detailed Summary

Pattern of Mysterious Disappearances and Violent Deaths Among Scientists and Military Officials

This episode examines a disturbing series of cases involving scientists, military officials, and researchers connected to classified aerospace, UAP programs, and advanced defense technology who have vanished or died under suspicious circumstances. The evidence spans government-funded projects, black-budget research, and historical episodes, raising questions about potential cover-ups and the systematic targeting of individuals with knowledge of secret weapons and exotic technology.

Retired Air Force General Neil McCasslin

Neil McCasslin, a 68-year-old retired Air Force general and former commander of the Philips Research Site at Kirtland AFB, disappeared from his Albuquerque home on February 27, 2026. His wife returned at 12:04 p.m. and reported him missing at 3:07 p.m., having last seen him at 10:00 a.m.

• He left behind glasses, a switched-off phone, and a smartwatch but was missing a red backpack, wallet, and a 38-caliber revolver.
• No footage of his departure exists despite extensive neighborhood surveillance and the presence of multiple cameras.
• His Pentagon career included serving as director of special programs from June 2009 to May 2011, overseeing approximately 75-80% of all special-access programs.
• He later commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson with a $2.2 billion science-and-technology portfolio.
• After Trump's February 19, 2026 Truth Social announcement directing the Pentagon to release UAP files, the search expanded to include the FBI, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and multiple rescue teams.
• The only physical clue recovered was a gray Air Force sweatshirt found approximately 1 mile east of his house, though this finding remains unconfirmed.
• He was a co-founder of DBE Consulting, tied to James Technelia (former DARPA/DTRA deputy), and sat on the board of Riverside Research, a nonprofit with hundreds of millions in defense contracts.

NASA Material Scientist Monica Resza

Monica Emilson Resza was a NASA material scientist who helped engineer the nickel-based super-alloy Mandalloy, which was used in RocketDyne's AR1 engine. She was reported missing on June 22, 2025, near Mount Waterman after disappearing 30 feet from a companion on a hiking trail.

• An 8-day land-and-air search involving LA County Sheriff's deputies and Monrovia Search & Rescue recovered only her beanie and visor, found 400 yards off-trail.
• The official SAR mission was closed and the case transferred to homicide investigators following the extended search with no sign of Resza.
• Her professional credentials included specialized materials science work for aerospace propulsion systems at a major government contractor.

Los Alamos Administrator Melissa Casillas

Melissa Casillas, a 53-year-old administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, vanished on June 26, 2025, after dropping her husband at the lab campus around 6:15 a.m. The circumstances of her disappearance remain unexplained.

• Doorbell cameras later captured her walking approximately 3 miles toward Carson National Forest, wearing a turquoise shirt and maroon sweatshirt.
• Her family discovered her phone had been factory-reset and a check remained uncashed.
• A blue Dodge truck was found near the highway, and her daughter noted she may have taken personal items, suggesting a possible voluntary departure.
• A $5,000 reward for information on her disappearance remains unclaimed.

Astronomer Carl Gilmare

Carl Gilmare was a 67-year-old Caltech/JPL astronomer born in Calgary in 1959 who specialized in mapping the Milky Way's stellar streams and co-discovered the GD-1 stream. His career included significant contributions to exoplanet research before his violent death.

• He was part of the 2007 team that detected the first water vapor in an exoplanet atmosphere using the Spitzer Space Telescope.
• Gilmare received NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 2011 for his astronomical research contributions.
• On December 20, 2025, he reported a trespasser to deputies, who found 29-year-old Freddy Snyder with an unregistered rifle, leading to a felony charge and release on recognizance.
• Gilmare was shot dead on his porch on February 16, 2026, at 6:10 a.m. by investigators later linked to Snyder.
• Snyder was connected to a carjacking and murder case with $3 million bail, and investigators noted no prior acquaintance between him and Gilmare.
• The Vera Rubin Observatory, a $5 million secure-network-equipped telescope, produces 1,000 images nightly, all screened by intelligence agencies before public release, prompting speculation that Gilmare may have accessed classified UFO data.

Plasma Physicist Nuno Lurero and Brown University Shooting

Dr. Nuno Lurero was a 47-year-old MIT plasma-science expert and director of the Plasma Science & Fusion Center who was shot at his Brookline home on December 15, 2025. The investigation revealed connections to a major incident at Brown University.

• Lurero sustained wounds to the upper left chest, abdomen, right thigh, and a graze on the left thigh in the attack.
• Portuguese national Claudio Emanuel Neves Valente, a former physics classmate of Lurero at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, opened fire at Brown University's Baris & Holly engineering building on December 13, 2025.
• The Brown shooting killed two students and injured nine, after which Valente filmed a confessional video claiming six semesters of planning.
• Valente used burner phones, swapped license plates, evaded law enforcement for two days, and was recorded leaving Boston at 8:35 p.m.
• Investigators found a 48-hour gap between the Brown attack and Lurero's murder with no clear link to a recent dispute between the two men.
• Two days after Lurero's death, TAE Technologies announced a merger with Trump Media & Technology Group, valued at approximately $6 billion, raising questions about timing given Lurero's role supporting Commonwealth Fusion Systems.

Historical Patterns: GEC Marconi Deaths

Between 1982 and 1990, a series of mysterious deaths occurred among engineers and computer scientists working on Britain's classified GEC Marconi defense projects. The pattern suggests a possible connection to national security secrets.

• Exactly 25 engineers and computer scientists died under mysterious circumstances during this eight-year period.
• No official inquiry was held into these deaths, and the related files remain classified to this day.
• The victims worked on highly classified defense contracts involving advanced military technology.
• The circumstances of their deaths mirrored patterns seen in other cases of scientists with knowledge of sensitive programs.

Mysterious Deaths of Key Scientists

Several scientists with connections to classified defense research and advanced technology programs died under circumstances that remain unexplained or controversial.

• Itto Bentov: Self-taught inventor who escaped Nazi Germany to Israel, helped develop Israel's first rocket, created consciousness theories about vibrating atoms, shaped the CIA's Gateway Process, consulted with Stanford Research Institute, and worked on the Stargate program. He died at age 55 on American Airlines Flight 191 after takeoff from Chicago O'Hare in 1979.

• Ning Lee: Chinese American physicist in Huntsville, Alabama known for radical work on superconductors and gravity control. After receiving Defense Department funding, she largely vanished from public view with rumors her work entered classified defense territory. In 2014, she was struck by a car on the University of Alabama campus, suffered permanent brain damage, developed Alzheimer's, and died July 27, 2021.

• John Norsine: Former Navy pilot, weapons designer, and neuroengineer at Lockheed Martin known for biofusion, biometrics, neuroweaponry, and brain print concepts. A close friend described his weapons work as pushing into "cognitive warfare territory." He died September 27, 2007, while on business for Concurrent Technologies.

• Amy Escridge: Alabama-based scientist openly studying anti-gravity technology who died in 2022 by self-inflicted gunshot wound, ruled a suicide. Friends reported she warned them her life could be in danger and told them four hours before her death that she would not commit suicide.

UFO Patterns at Scientific and Nuclear Facilities

Researchers and whistleblowers have documented consistent UFO activity near nuclear facilities and advanced scientific laboratories, suggesting a connection between unidentified aerial phenomena and sensitive research sites.

• Robert Hastings, author of UFOs and Nukes, has interviewed nearly 170 whistleblowers who worked at nuclear bases and claim UFOs consistently cluster around these facilities.
• A UFO crash reportedly occurred near Brookhaven National Laboratory, which houses the powerful Cosmotron particle accelerator, with witnesses claiming wreckage was cleaned up and taken to the lab.
• Russian General Vasilei Alexv stated that UFOs appeared when sensitive scientific technology was transported and that the Soviets have records of UFOs near their national labs and nuclear sites.

Government Officials and The Three-Body Problem

During the Bush administration, key federal government players were urged to read the Chinese science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, which depicts extraterrestrials systematically monitoring, manipulating, and killing human scientists at the frontier of advanced physics.

• The novel depicts Tricolarian aliens who track and eliminate scientists working on nuclear, plasma, and particle accelerator physics that could threaten their control.
• Harold Melngren, a presidential adviser who worked directly with JFK, LBJ, Nixon, and Ford and was briefed on UFOs, stated that non-human intelligences operate by tracking the frontier of human innovation and oppose anything threatening their control.
• Pippa Melngren, Harold's daughter who served on George W. Bush's National Economic Council, was tasked with reading the novel as part of her briefings.
• An apocryphal story claims Barack Obama told Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder to read The Three-Body Problem when asked about the true nature of reality.

Central Theory and Implications

The episode advances the theory that people working closest to powerful secret scientific knowledge repeatedly become the most vulnerable to mysterious disappearances or deaths.

• Scientists at the edges of knowledge—those rewriting physics rules, scanning for unseen threats, and unlocking future science—appear to be systematically targeted.
• The pattern connects disappearances of Mexican neurophysiologist Jacobo Grinberg (1994) and Israeli rocket scientist Israel Ben-Tor to broader themes of secrecy and silencing.
• Grinberg's chilling final reminder, that "if you understand the system, you disappear," encapsulates the recurring threat faced by those who uncover classified information.
• The cases span government-funded projects, black-budget research, and high-profile leaks involving individuals with knowledge of secret weapons, exotic technology, and UAP programs.

Full Transcript

Show transcript

What do you call it when a retired Air
Force general, one who once ran the most
notorious lab in UFO history, vanishes
from his house in broad daylight?
>> The general was involved with the
Pentagon's most advanced aerospace
research when the NASA material
scientist behind a breakthrough rocket
engine alloy disappears 30 ft from her
friend on a hike. She was right behind
them, 30 ft behind them, and then she
disappeared.
>> When one of MIT's top plasma physicists
is gunned down outside his own front
door.
>> This many top scientists getting killed
or going missing in just under a year
looks like a major red flag.
>> Who are the first people the Israelis
killed in Iran when they went in?
>> The first thing you do is kill your
scientists.
It's the kind of thing that sounds like
the Chinese science fiction book, The
Threebody Problem. A world where
scientists don't just make discoveries,
but become the front line of a war they
don't even know they're in. A world
where the future rests on some of the
most important minds on Earth. And those
minds start disappearing.
Except here, the names and the people
behind them are real. Gasillas went
missing after taking lunch to her
teenage daughter at a cafe in Towels
Plaza.
>> Some of them were very important people
and we're going to look at it over the
next special.
>> What we're looking at might not just be
geopolitics in the dark or pressure
coming from nation states, but from an
unseen force shaping our timeline from
somewhere above it and a hidden struggle
over who gets to control humanity's next
leap.
Or maybe none of these cases are
connected.
>> It's really sensitive stuff and I'm not
a big believer in coincidences.
>> So tonight, we're following the trail
through missing scientists, murdered
physicists, defenseworld gatekeepers in
this strange shadowland that forms
wherever advanced knowledge becomes too
dangerous to leave walking around.
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The trail begins in Albuquerque, New
Mexico, in the shadow of Sandia
Mountains. It's February 27th, 2026, a
late Friday morning on Quail Run Court.
Neil McCassland, a 68-year-old retired
Air Force general, is at home in a quiet
neighborhood at the edge of the Sibola
National Forest. A repair man sees him
at the house around 10:00 a.m. Then
about an hour later, around 11:10 a.m.,
his wife leaves for a medical
appointment. At 12:04, barely an hour
after that, she's back home,
but her husband is gone. Left behind are
his prescription glasses, his phone,
which had been switched off, and his
smartwatch. All the things that would
make him trackable in the 21st century.
But what's missing is a red backpack,
his wallet, and a 38 caliber revolver
with its holster. Not the best
combination.
At 3:07, his wife Susan reports him
missing, and the official police
investigation begins. In a newly
released 911 call, she tells the
dispatcher he's been gone for about 3
hours.
>> I have some indication that he must have
planned not to be found. She said he
changed his clothes and appears to be on
foot since none of their cars or bikes
were missing. She also tells dispatch
that he's been dealing with some medical
issues and that both of them were seeing
a doctor for anxiety, lack of sleep, and
short-term memory problems. In fact, it
was the same doctor she had seen earlier
that day. But Susan chocked the health
issues up to garden variety things that
you face in old age. She never thought
that Neil would actually act in a way to
harm himself.
>> Saying if his brain and body keep
deteriorating, he didn't want to live
like that. But it seemed to me that was
just a man, I hate how this is going
kind of thing.
>> A comment like that would naturally
raise concerns about self harm. But
whether that was a real risk or just a
throwaway comment on an off day, we
don't actually know. When the police
asked about the weapons, she said that
her husband had a gun safe with multiple
pistols and rifles, but at that moment
couldn't tell whether anything was
actually missing. Although now we know
that one of his 38 calibers was in fact
gone. The next day, a silver alert goes
out. This is the kind of statewide alert
issued when authorities think a missing
person might be disoriented or
cognitively impaired. New Mexico state
statute doesn't require any kind of
formal diagnosis. Given what Susan had
already told the police, that was enough
to trigger it. But even with those
reported issues, McCasslin still doesn't
fit the profile of a man who just
wandered into a canyon.
>> Investigators say he's still highly
intelligent and capable.
>> Friends say that the week before he
disappeared, McCastlin cycled 60 m. He
hiked those very foothills. He biked
them. He knew every trail. This wasn't a
man losing his bearings, but the kind of
guy who could outsk most millennials.
This was also a town he knew by heart.
McCasten once commanded the Philips
Research Site at Kirtland, an Air Force
base notorious for hosting advanced
weapons research right nearby. He wasn't
a stranger to this place. It was
basically his backyard. His wife would
also issue another statement saying
McCasten had some risk, but not from
dementia. He was not confused and
disoriented, but a clear head didn't
make him any easier to find. The
Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office said
that they had surveillance footage from
both ends of his street and still
couldn't confirm his direction of
travel. They made public appeals for
doorbell cameras, dash cams, GoPros,
anything.
>> If you have any information where
McCasslin may be, contact BCSO's missing
person's unit. Within the span of a
week, the search expanded from the
sheriff's office to the FBI's
Albuquerque field office to the Air
Force Office of Special Investigations,
New Mexico State Search and Rescue,
Albuquerque Mountain Rescue, horseback
teams, three types of search dogs,
drones, helicopters, and neighborhood
canvasing. And despite living in an era
with enough cameras to catch almost
every delivery on the block in which he
lived, no footage of him ever surfaced.
Police accessed his electronic devices
and searched his usual hiking spots like
the Elena Gagos area into the Domingo
Baka Canyon, but there was still no
trace of him. After weeks, all they
could find was a gray Air Force
sweatshirt a mile east of his house. And
even after testing it, they couldn't
confirm it was Macassins. So, we're
talking about a regimented, physically
active military vet who vanished from
his house without leaving a single
digital or physical fingerprint behind.
That alone is strange, but it gets
stranger once you understand who
McCastand actually was and the world he
came out of.
>> General McCasslin, his disappearance was
discussed. UAPs were discussed. So, I
don't think this story is going away,
Jesse. This was a man who spent his
career deep in the black world of
American defense. When you read his
official Air Force biography, you
realize he had access to things that the
rest of us aren't even supposed to know
exist. The foundation for that kind of
clearance started when he graduated from
the Air Force Academy, earned a PhD in
astronomical engineering from MIT on a
Herz Foundation fellowship, and later
studied at Harvard's Kennedy School. He
went on to lead the space-based laser
project office, served as vice commander
of the space and missile systems center,
was the material wing director at the
Air Force Research Labs Space Vehicles
Directorate at Kirtland, and spent part
of his career in the National
Reconnaissance Office, the world of
black off thereord satellites.
His
career spanned everything from directed
energy to space weapons to nuclear
oversight.
You probably get the point. This was a
man who could outcred most presidents
and probably had more access than them,
too. And there are two jobs on his
resume that matter more than the rest.
From June 2009 to May 2011, McCasslin
served as director of special programs
at the Pentagon in the office of the
under secretary of defense for
acquisitions, technology, and logistics.
The title is a mouthful, but according
to the official Pentagon training
documentation, that office oversees
acquisition special access programs,
these programs are the ultimate category
of secret black projects. In fact, they
account for about 75 to 80% of all
special access programs in the
Department of War. These are the
programs built to protect the crown
jewels. Extremely sensitive research in
the process of building something like a
next generation weapons system or a
craft that doesn't officially exist.
This is where sensitive technology moves
from theory to prototype to something
that the military can actually fly. And
if you're wondering where UFO reverse
engineering programs would possibly
hide, this is the place. In the
classified world, McCastlin's office was
the motherloadde. His Wikipedia page
goes a step further, claiming that the
role made him executive secretary of the
special access program oversight
committee, the body that reviews and
approves every single special access
program in the Pentagon. But that's not
even the most interesting job on his
resume.
From 2011 to 2013, McCastlin commanded
the Air Force Research Lab, AFRL, at
Wright Patterson Air Force Base,
overseeing a $2.2 billion science and
technology portfolio. One of the largest
research operations in the entire
Pentagon, advanced material science,
future weapons, and of course, exotic
propulsion. And if you're familiar with
UFO lore, you also know that Wright
Patterson isn't just famous for Project
Blue Book. It's the alleged home of the
Roswell crash debris.
>> I called Curtis Lame and I said,
"General, uh, I know we have a room at
Wright Patterson
where you put all this secret stuff.
Can I go in there?"
I've never heard him get mad, but he got
mad in hell at me.
>> Depending on who you believe, this place
houses some of the most exotic materials
in the history of the US government.
It's the place where they get studied,
stored, reverse engineered, and
obsessively hidden from public view.
That's not even a conspiracy. This is
the place during World War II where the
US would reverse engineer advanced Nazi
tech and General Neil McCasslin ran the
entire thing.
But what really put him on the radar of
UFO World is that his name showed up
somewhere no one expected. In 2016,
Wikileaks published the hacked emails of
John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign
chairman and one of the most powerful
political operatives in Washington.
Buried in that email dump is an email
from Tom Dong to Podesta. The subject
line, General McCassland Dong writes, he
mentioned he's a skeptic. He's not. I've
been working with him for 4 months. I've
just got done giving him a 4-hour
presentation on the entire project a few
weeks ago. He tells Podesta that
McCassland just has to say that out loud
because he is very, very aware because
he was the man in charge of all of this
stuff. When Roswell crashed, they
shipped it to the laboratory at Wright
Patterson Air Force Base. General
McCassland was in charge of that exact
laboratory up to a couple years ago. He
not only knows what I'm trying to
achieve, he helped assemble my advisory
team. He's a very important man. Dong
was after UFO disclosure for the
American people. That's the whole point
of To the Stars Academy. General
McCasslin being involved in those early
efforts is a big deal. Some people try
to dismiss Tom Delong and say that he
was never in touch with Neil McCasslin.
After all, these leaked emails were
never publicly confirmed. But even his
wife Susan would come to acknowledge
that McCassland was caught up in the
Russian hack and had less contact with
Tom after the emails were released. Key
word here, less, not zero.
And she's implicitly admitting that they
were in close contact previously.
In fact, in that same email batch that
leaked, a calendar notification shows
that Susan herself accepted a Google
calendar invite for something called a
Dong Podesta meeting. So, at minimum,
Massland and his wife were in the room
for conversations about UFO disclosure.
We're not talking about a 4chan thread
here. We're talking about Podesta's
actual inbox. And as for Susan
McCasslin, she has a quite impressive
background herself. She's a PhD
astrophysicist, a colonel in the Air
Force Reserve. She was a NASA astronaut
semi- finalist, and had stints at both
Boeing and Rathon.
She might even have her own clearance
history.
After McCasslin disappeared, she told
the press that he only held commonly
held clearances since retirement. Maybe.
But a man who spent his career this deep
in the black world likely saw the full
portfolio. And you don't really unsee
that. Susan later made a statement on
Facebook. She wrote, "Neil does not have
any special knowledge about the ET
bodies and debris from the Roswell crash
stored at Wright Pad. Though at this
point, with absolutely no sign of him,
maybe the best hypothesis is that aliens
beamed him up to the mother ship.
However, no sightings of a mother ship
hovering above the Sandia Mountains have
been reported. Maybe this is just a
woman holding it together with dark
humor while the internet tears her life
apart. But it's undeniable that the
phrasing is odd. She doesn't say Roswell
material doesn't exist at Wright
Patterson. She just says McCasslin
doesn't have any special knowledge about
it. An event that mind you has been
reported on adnauseium in the open-
source world. So, she might just be
saying there's nothing that Neil
McCasslin knows about Roswell that you,
the public, don't already know. Now,
look, any reasonable person should be
hesitant to parse or speculate on the
words of a grieving wife. And Susan and
Neil deserve all of our thoughts and
prayers. But also to any reasonable
person, these words almost feel like a
cipher to decode, an invitation to
speculate just a little bit. and the
statement ended up provoking just that.
They spurred a lot of public
speculation. If anything, the internet
theorizing went into overdrive. I do
think that there are secrets that
obviously uh will not be um released
because we have technologies that other
nations don't and just see the
superiority of our forces right now uh
with Iran. Had McCasslin been quietly
folded into some continuity of
government program or taken into
protective custody in preparation for
the war with Iran? Had he been taken by
a foreign adversary that understood
exactly how valuable he was? People in
UFO world associate McCassland with the
Majestic 12, an elite and top secret
presidential advisory panel dating back
to Truman and Eisenhower that deals with
the UFO topic. There are a lot of
reasonable questions as to whether this
Majestic 12 committee ever really
existed. But perhaps the person deepest
on the UFO truth, at least from the
government perspective that we know
about over the last 70 years, is a guy
named Colonel John Alexander. And at one
point, he admitted that the Majestic 12
was basically just a cover for
continuity of government programs.
people in the military-industrial
complex where if the president and his
direct cabinet were incapacitated, they
would take over. To be honest, McCastlin
sounds like he squarely fits that
profile. Theories around his
disappearance kept multiplying, and the
timing of all of this didn't help
either. Are aliens real?
>> Uh, they're real, but I haven't seen
them. In the summer of 2025, the
mainstream Italian magazine Let Espresso
published an article from a confidential
source.
It claimed that President Trump was
wrestling control of special access
programs away from the Pentagon and
under the command of the White House, a
move that supposedly sparked tensions
between military leaders and some of the
president's adviserss. The article goes
on to mention Project Preserve Destiny,
a program involving communications with
non-human intelligence housed under the
National Security Agency or NSA. The
program involves some of the most
bizarre protocols and has some of the
most profound implications of anything
we've ever covered on this show. Just
listen to the experience of Air Force
Sergeant Dan Sherman. This is what he
was told the program was about.
>> The genesis of it was in 1947. and we
came in contact with an alien species
and in 1960 they started a a project. It
was called project preserve destiny and
um it was designed to genetically manage
fetuses, human fetuses so that they
would have the heightened ability to do
this particular thing that I was going
to school for. My mother was one of the
the selected targets or whatever you
want to call it. And on the night of
February 19th, 2026,
Trump announced on Truth Social that he
was directing the Pentagon and other
agencies to begin identifying and
releasing government files related to
aliens and the UAP phenomena. Trump is
always shooting from the hip. You don't
really get the sense that that post was
planned. And you have to think if the
UFO legacy program does in fact exist,
they were thinking deeply about their
most important personnel. Eight days
after that announcement, McCastlin
vanished from his neighborhood.
I'm not going to pretend I know what
this means, and I'm not saying that
Trump's announcement is the reason he
disappeared, but the timing is a data
point. There could be a few reasons why
that timing is important. Neil
McCasslin. I mean, you have to wonder
the timing. President Trump saying, you
know, I'm going to release these files
and then 6 days later, Neil McCasslin
goes missing.
>> If McCassland was involved in these
programs and felt he could be implicated
in any way, the release of these UFO
files could have been a pressure point,
maybe enough to make him crack and
disappear into the wilderness.
This also could have explained the deep
anxiety leading up to that moment. Maybe
the intense hiking and biking was to
relieve stress. What many online are
saying is the most simple explanation
for McCasslin's disappearance is that he
walked into the Sandia foothills with
his gun and that whatever was in his
head after a lifetime near the most
secretive programs in the country simply
became too much to carry, a burden too
great to bear. The fact that he changed
his clothes before leaving, making it
harder to identify what he was wearing,
adds to that theory. But after weeks of
searching terrain that experienced teams
covered repeatedly, they haven't found a
body. So, the opposite could also be
true.
This was a man who was already involved
with early disclosure efforts.
McCassland wasn't hiding from
transparency. If anything, he was
working toward it. And that makes him
quite dangerous and a liability to the
people who don't want disclosure.
To them, this is the last person you'd
ever want to put on the witness stand.
He was a man who saw behind the curtain
and knew exactly what was hanging there.
Harvard lawyer and civil rights activist
Danny Shehan, the constitutional lawyer
behind the Pentagon Papers, recently
went on the Third Eye Drops podcast with
my buddy Michael Phillip and described
what he calls the association. There has
arisen uh an insurgency group that have
uh occupied extremely high positions uh
in the defense department uh inside the
central intelligence agency uh inside
some of the private aerospace
corporations uh and uh inside the the
military services. Okay. And I happen to
know who they are. Okay. And what
they've done is they've formed an
association
uh and that they're working to try to
drag the program back into the
government. This is a covert circle of
24 retired highranking officials from
the DoD, CIA, and private aerospace. A
secret brain trust quietly working to
drag classified UAP programs back into
the light of government oversight and
towards transparency. They're all
retired and they all took their
rolodexes and credibility with them. So,
did Mccassland have his own little black
book? Was he one of those 24? We don't
actually know, but he does fit the
profile. Retired, credentialed,
connected, and sympathetic to
disclosure. And I've got their names,
too, here.
>> Right here.
>> Are those names Are those names private
or can those names
>> They're not public at all. They're not
public at all, but there's 24 of them.
After McCasslin hung up his uniform in
2013, his wife described him as a man
winding down, hiking the foothills,
enjoying a quiet life in the desert.
Technically, that's all true.
>> Dalbot power for 24 hours, end of day
comes our shower.
>> But that's not the full story. In fact,
after leaving his post in government,
he's listed as a founder of DBE
Consulting,
a New Mexico national security
consulting firm tied to James Technelia,
the former deputy director of DARPA and
the director of the Defense Threat
Reduction Agency. This agency, also
known as DITRA for short, is the
Pentagon's agency for countering weapons
of mass destruction. But it also might
have a thing or two to do with UFOs. the
person in charge of collecting all of
the information from Ditra dealing with
extraterrestrials and as he put it quote
unquote little green men happened to sit
next to me at my computer terminal and
began pulling all the documents on my
system and the systems in our skiff.
>> This consulting firm wasn't just two old
colleagues starting a fishing club. It
represents two aerospace gray beards
with connections way too deep to ever
really walk away. advising clients
across the Pentagon and Department of
Energy. Make of that what you will. In
2019, he joined the board of trustees at
Riverside Research, a nonprofit with
hundreds of millions of dollars in
defense and intelligence work on the
books. He was also the director of
technology at ATA, Applied Technology
Associates, one of those aerospace firms
with a deliberately vague name working
in sensitive areas in space systems and
directed energy. That doesn't sound like
a quiet retirement to me, but that's
exactly the kind of person who makes a
very specific set of people very
nervous. a potential whistleblower
operating in the dangerous margin
between intelligence agencies and
private contractors. Two groups with
their own distinct methods of making
problems disappear. And if you're in the
business of making problems disappear,
you make sure you give the public a
story they can wrap their heads around.
This is the fixer handbook 101, which
brings us back to a detail that doesn't
get enough attention. Just because
McCastlin's gun is missing doesn't mean
he was the one who took it. Think about
it. If you wanted to stage someone's
disappearance to read like a probable
suicide, what would you take? You'd take
a gun.
Not their phone or smartwatch. You'd
leave everything trackable with a GPS
chip, but take the one item with an
obvious narrative attached to it.
Ultimately, who knows what happened to
McCastling? What we do know is that a
man who knew more about America's most
classified science programs than about
99.9999%
of our population vanished from his
house without tripping a single camera.
And as of today, despite 700 homeowners
canvased, search parties, drones,
helicopters, fleer sweeps, K-9 units,
and the FBI, we have next to nothing. No
confirmed sightings, no scent trail.
He's just gone like a ghost.
For one of the most intensive searches
in recent New Mexico history, the
absence of evidence is bizarre. But it
might be a data point unto itself that
points to someone who's sophisticated,
who knows how to work the blind spots.
And McCasten isn't the first to vanish.
Congressman from Tennessee, Tim Burett,
has been trying to get answers himself,
but claims that some of our intelligence
agencies are actively stonewalling his
attempts to investigate why our top
researchers are disappearing at such a
high rate. He told the Daily Mail that
the numbers seem very high in these
certain areas of research. I think we'd
better be paying attention and I don't
think we should trust our government. I
had a t-shirt on my merchantfor
congress.com website that said more
people believe in UFOs than believe in
Congress and it sold out. So, I mean,
there's something going on out there,
brother.
>> But while Bett was looking for answers
in Washington, the internet was doing
its own digging.
After his story broke, an online manhunt
zeroed in on a potential smoking gun, an
exac account called TMBB spaceships. The
account posts about plasma propulsion
and spacecraft systems, but hasn't
posted since February 27th, the day
Macccasslin disappeared. I looked into
it. Its account claims that in 1991, its
owner was attending the University of
Texas as a US Air Force butterb bar
electrical engineer, which is slaying
for a newly commissioned second
lieutenant. Except Macland reached
second lieutenant on May 30th, 1979. and
by April 1991, he had reached Lieutenant
Colonel. His official Air Force
biography also puts him in Los Angeles
from 1988 to 1992, not Texas. The
account also mentions a brother-in-law
who spent 40 years in navigation and
started working for Texas Instruments in
the 1950s, but the only Maclin
brother-in-law we could actually verify
doesn't fit that profile. Based on these
posts, the user behind the account
doesn't appear to be McCasten. While the
internet was busy trying to unmask this
ex account, the real story was hiding in
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When you dig into the $2.2 billion
science and technology portfolio
Mccassland oversaw at the Air Force
Research Lab, you'll find a thread that
leads somewhere specific. And that
thread is metal. A super alloy of metal
co-invented by another missing
scientist, Monica Jasinto Resza. Monica
worked in one of the most brutal corners
of propulsion science. An age-old
limitation had kept advanced rocket
propulsion pinned down by the same ugly
problem. If you want to get heavy
satellites into orbit, you need a high
pressure oxygen-rich environment. The
metallic alloys strong enough to hold
the engine together in these situations
would go up in flames. And the alloys
that didn't catch on fire were too weak
to trust with the guts of an engine. So
the US military needed to find a sweet
spot, but nobody could find one. So we
were forced to rely on the Russian
RD-180 engine for sensitive national
security space launches. This meant that
during the Cold War, we were literally
stuck buying defense hardware for the
most sensitive missions from our biggest
geopolitical rival.
The stalemate finally shattered in the
1990s thanks to the hard work of Dallas
Hardwick and Monica Resza at the
Rockwell Science Center. They engineered
a nickel-based alloy tough enough to
survive the crushing pressure, but
stable enough to not go up in flames or
fracture in an oxygen-rich hellscape.
They named this super metal Mandeloy.
The first three letters of each of their
names fused into one. By 1999, the Air
Force Research Laboratory or AFRL began
co-unding their work. The same Air Force
Research Laboratory that was later
headed up by Neil McCasslin. Monica told
space news that over the next two
decades and after multiple Air Force and
NASA contracts, the metal she created
was eventually scaled into a family of
super alloys, Mandaloy 100 and 200, each
engineered for different temperature and
pressure conditions.
This was the vital national security
hardware that would allow us to stop
relying on Russia. Fast forward and
Mandeloy ends up in kerosenefueled AR1
engines, Rocket Dine's US-built
replacement for the Russian RD-180.
Then in May of 2011, none other than
Neil McCasslin came to write Patterson
as the new commander of the Air Force
Research Laboratory while the Mandeloy
program was still active. And Monica's
co-inventor, Dallas Hardwick, who had
been at Wright Patterson since the year
2000, was right there alongside him,
embedded in the lab's materials
directorate until her retirement in
2012. This was the exact place where
Mandeloy 200 was co-developed. In fact,
a national academyy's report shows the
Mandaloy partnership was shared between
the Air Force Research Laboratory and
Monica's team at Pratt and Whitney
Rocket Dine, which later became
Aererojet Rocket Dine. The Air Force
knew that mastering materials like
Mandeloy could shape the future. And at
Wright Patterson, cuttingedge science
has long been rumored to blur into the
unexplained. But there's a long and much
weirder history of exotic metallurgy
coming out of Wright Patterson. And this
is where the story goes somewhere
familiar. Some researchers connect
Mandeloy to a specific lineage of exotic
metal that goes all the way back to the
alleged Roswell crash of 1947. In an
interview with journalist Bob Pratt,
Jesse Marcel Jr., The Army Air Force
intelligence officer at the Roswell
crash site described some of the debris
as thin and foilike, and when he held a
lighter to it, it didn't burn. The
theory goes that whatever was recovered
at Roswell eventually became a
classified R&D seed program at Wright
Patterson's Air Force Research Lab. And
over decades, that seed inspired
families of advanced alloys designed to
mimic or exploit the same impossible
properties. shape recovery, extreme
strength to weight ratios, burn
resistance, not chemical clones of the
Roswell metal, but descendants of the
same research tree. You have to admit
it's a bit bizarre that Wright Patterson
had a contract with Battel Memorial
Institute in 1949
studying nickel titanium alloys long
before the material became associated
with memory metal.
memory metal extremely similar to what
Jesse Marcel described just 2 years
after he reportedly handled it. Then
fast forward to the 1960s at the Naval
Ordinance Laboratory and the world was
introduced to Nitanol, an alloy that
remembers its shape. It was seen as a
breakthrough in modern metallurgy. But
for anyone steeped in Roswell lore, it
looked eerily familiar. Now Mandalloy
lives in a very different metallurgical
neighborhood. Nitanol is about 45%
titanium. While Mandalloy has only small
amounts of titanium, about 1 to 4%. And
if you look at the actual science behind
Mandaloy, the exotic metal theory hits a
wall. Monica's patents for Mandalloy
mentions Hannes 214 and Monal alloy
K500. So is Monica's super alloy some
kind of Roswell starship derivative?
Maybe not. But who's to say these exotic
metal lineages didn't have a little
outside inspiration along the way.
You have to admit the optics are
bizarre. A scientist co-invents a super
alloy inside the same research portfolio
Macassland oversaw, and now they've both
vanished. If you look at the world they
came out of, intelligence agencies have
warned for decades that foreign agents
target America's space and defense
world. McCassland was practically a
walking hard drive, not for a single
piece of knowledge, but for the vault in
his head. The same way Monica's value
wasn't just Mandalloy. It was the person
behind it. A mind capable of solving one
of the toughest problems in American
rocketry is capable of solving the next
one, too. So, let's go back to June
22nd, 2025, when the woman who taught us
how to tame fire vanished.
The search is on for a 60-year-old woman
missing in the National Forest. Monica
Resza was last seen near Mount Waterman
yesterday at about 9:00 a.m.
>> The LA County Sheriff's Department's
Presenta Valley Station and Montro
search and rescue have been working
around the clock on this one. Search and
rescue scoured the area for 8 days by
land and by air, but found nothing other
than Monica's beanie, which photographs
from the day show was tucked into the
hip belt of her pack. The visor was
recovered about 400 yd off the trail the
day after her disappearance. When no
other evidence surfaced as is protocol,
the synthetic aperture radar mission was
concluded and the investigation was
handed off to the homicide bureau, the
missing person's unit. But Monica's
community had already mobilized,
organizing volunteer groups, including
expert mountain rescue teams who began
searching the areas outside the search
and rescue perimeter and would continue
to search by land and by drone when the
official search and rescue mission was
called off. Hikers have been known to
survive for two to three weeks in the
wilderness at times, but the weeks wore
on and the volunteer exhibitions kept
going out every few days. Hope of rescue
dimmed, but the goal was to at least
recover Monica's body. The organizers
begged for volunteers to keep deploying
until Monica's birthday in December, six
whole months after her disappearance.
The weeks turned into months, and still
no sign of Monica. She had vanished
without a trace. That fateful June
morning, Monica was well equipped with a
backpack, hiking boots, hiking pants,
and plenty of water. It's still unclear
if she had her cell phone on her. Some
theorized she could have been attacked
by a mountain lion or bear, but no dens
were found in the area. No remains. The
San Gabriels are mountain lion country.
The terrain is extremely rugged. There
are many giant boulders and cavelike
shelters that could obscure Monica from
the view of rescuers. Still, multiple
civilian searchers who descended the
ravine nearest to Monica's last reported
location described the terrain as steep,
but not steep enough to be fatal if
someone fell. Something about her
disappearance feels off. If someone had
wanted to kidnap Monica, it's
conceivable they could have intercepted
her on the trail and led her to a car
parked along a different section of the
highway. We may never know if her
disappearance was just a tragic twist of
fate, a crime of opportunity, or
something much more nefarious.
Beyond her invention of the Mandaloy,
the heatresistant coating for interiors
of rockets and satellites that allow for
entry and re-entry into our atmosphere.
Most importantly, we want to honor
Monica's life. The outpouring of prayer,
support, and resources from her family,
friends, and colleagues demonstrates how
deeply she is and will continue to be
missed. The last entry on the volunteer
Facebook group for Monica's search and
rescue efforts was on November 18th,
2025.
150 days after her disappearance, the
group was still planning a recovery
expedition that week. As disturbing as
Monica's disappearance is, 4 days later,
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It's been nearly a month since anyone
has seen Melissa Casillas. Her
stepdaughter says a doorbell camera
showed Casillas walking a couple miles
away with a backpack and she was last
seen walking on a highway in Tal County
about a month ago. It was June 26th. A
family friend even saw her walking along
the highway. He turned around to see if
she needed help, but then all he saw was
a blue truck driving by. No Casillas.
Her family thinks she got into that
truck. Her family says her personal
belongings are all still at home,
including her phone, which had been
factory reset.
>> This time, an hour from Los Alamos
National Laboratory in Ranchos Deeos.
Melissa Casillas is a 53-year-old
administrative assistant at Los Alamos
National Laboratory, one of the most
secretive research sites on Earth and of
course the original home to the
Manhattan Project where the first atomic
bomb was developed under Oppenheimer. On
the morning of June 26th, 2025, around
6:15 a.m., Melissa dropped her husband
Markoff at the campus. He worked at the
lab as a superintendent and said he
watched Melissa swipe her badge at the
gate. But instead of heading to work,
Melissa drove an hour back home, telling
her daughter Sierra she'd forgotten her
badge and was going to work from home
instead. Sierra didn't think anything of
it and left for her own job. Around
12:30, Melissa dropped off lunch for her
daughter at her work. Everything seemed
normal, but around 1:30, Mark got a call
from Melissa's boss. She never showed up
at work. He texted Sierra, who sent a
text to her mom, and it was quickly
marked as red. But by 2:30, her second
text wouldn't deliver at all. Around
2:15, doorbell cameras caught Melissa
walking along State Road 518 in a
turquoise shirt, blue jeans, and a
maroon sweatshirt around her waist.
Heading in the direction of Carson
National Forest about three miles from
her house. Back at the house, her
daughter came home to a locked door and
Melissa's car in the driveway. Inside,
she found her mom's purse, wallet, keys,
and both her work and personal phones.
When she picked one of the phones up,
she realized it had been factory reset.
A check she was supposed to cash was
sitting there, too, next to a few dollar
bills. Her daughter searched through her
things and realized she might have taken
a toothbrush, a hair iron, and other
personal items. A witness later reported
that around the same time Melissa was
seen on surveillance footage, they saw a
blue Dodge truck following her. They
also said she was walking like she was
hurt or intoxicated. The family later
disputed it, saying that the witness
described a woman in a white shirt, not
turquoise, which was what Melissa was
wearing. Either way, Melissa was gone.
When her family, Sierra and Mark,
compared notes, the stories didn't match
up. Melissa told her daughter she came
home because she forgot her badge, but
Mark said he watched her swipe in with
it. Either one of them was wrong or
Melissa wasn't telling the truth. After
going through her things, Sierra
realized that her mother was under
enormous pressure. On an interview with
Deline, she said that there was a lot
crumbling down on her that we didn't
know about. Melissa was also feeling
financial stress. Her husband said that
after their daughter Sierra was in a bad
car accident, there was supposed to be a
settlement, but it fell through. Her
2022 GoFundMe mentions that the accident
left her family with medical costs most
could never fathom. As Sierra and her
father started piecing things together,
they began suspecting Melissa might have
left on her own. And when you look at
the items she took, like a toothbrush
and hair straightener, it tells us a few
things. Abductees don't usually take
their hair straighteners, and a suicidal
person doesn't care about frizzy hair.
This behavior describes someone who
might be expecting to go somewhere with
running electricity, a mirror, and maybe
even someone to see. The factory reset
phones left at home are another clue. If
she had left voluntarily, she might have
wanted to wipe her message history and
make herself harder to track down. The
Los Alamos connection, of course, put
Melissa on everyone's radar. And even
though administrative roles can overlap
with classified material, we don't know
what her position entailed. And when you
add in the confusion about the badge,
the factory reset phones, the personal
items she took, and the financial
stress, this starts to look like someone
who made a decision to disappear on her
own terms. Maybe she saw something she
wasn't supposed to at the lab. And her
phone and hair appliance were a neat
cover story for somebody who didn't want
her to speak out. Whatever happened,
Melissa's still missing and her family
is still looking. Her parents have set
up a GoFundMe offering a $5,000 reward
for any information that brings her
home. But not every disappearance near a
sensitive facility is foul play. The
evidence looks like it points somewhere
more tragic and personal than a sinister
conspiracy. We're including her because
she deserves to be found, but we're not
including her as evidence of something
darker.
For that, we have to look 700 miles west
at what was happening under the stars
just outside Los Angeles. A man shot and
killed 3 days ago at his home in the
Analopee Valley community of Lano has
been identified as Carl Grill Mayor. He
was a Caltech scientist. Colleagues say
the 67-year-old made groundbreaking
discoveries in astronomy and will be
greatly missed.
>> On February 16th, 2026, about 30 mi
northeast of Waterman Mountain, where
Monica Resza disappeared, another
colleague from Caltech and JPL would
meet an equally tragic and suspicious
end. the great astronomer Carl Gilmare.
In the small unincorporated community of
Lano, tucked away near the Los Angeles
and San Bernardino County line, a
worldclass astronomer had built his own
observatory on a remote stretch of land.
He chose to set up shop in the secluded
Analopee Valley, 20 m east of Palmdale,
precisely because of how thinly
populated it was. Carl Gilmare wanted
the darkest night skies possible with
the least amount of light pollution.
Carl Johan Gilmare, born in Calgary,
Alberta in 1959, dedicated his life to
studying galactic astronomy in distant
planets. His work focused on mapping the
structure of the Milky Way, identifying
stellar streams, remnants of smaller
galaxies or clusters torn apart by
gravitational forces. These incredibly
faint, stretched out ribbons of stars
drift through our Milky Way and tell the
story of what was left behind. Modern
science sometimes suffers from hypers
specialization. But Carl Gilmare did
not. Within astrophysics, he was a
renaissance man, a polymath with
research interests at every scale. From
the research of our own solar system to
giant galaxy clusters to the search for
extraterrestrial life. Grilmare
discovered the leafy stream, a vast
river of stars yanked into the Milky Way
from nearby globular clusters. Using the
Sloan Digital Survey or SDSS, Grilmare
tracked subtle disturbances in the paths
of these stellar streams, leading to key
insights into dark matter, a mysterious
missing mass which forms a cosmic glue
that holds galaxies in their clusters
together. Stars, galaxies, planets, and
matter as we know it are only 5% of the
observable universe. Think of them as
the foam on an incoming wave crashing on
the beach. Dark matter forms much of the
rest of the ocean. A vast halo of dark
matter envelops the Milky Way. Its
immense gravity would disturb the path
of incoming stellar streams by tugging
on them and changing their paths. And by
tracking these changes, Gilmare was able
to make profound insights into one of
the universe's biggest mysteries. What
is most of it made out of? Through his
comprehensive study of stellar streams,
Gilmare helped reshape our understanding
of how galaxies evolve. And his work
with exoplanets was arguably even more
profound. Using the Spitzer Space
Telescope, Gilmare did pioneering work
studying the atmospheres of exoplanets,
breaking down light passing through
distant worlds to search for molecular
fingerprints that tell us what they're
made of. In 2007, Gilmare was part of
the team that discovered the first ever
instance of water vapor in an
exoplanet's atmosphere. Today, the
techniques he pioneered are proving
pivotal in the scientific search for
alien life. As the same capabilities can
now probe the atmospheres of habitable
planets for bio signatures, footprints
of living ecology altering the planet's
chemical balance. His colleague at
Caltech, Sergio Fiardo Aosta, described
his approach to exoplanets and galactic
structures as truly detective work. Carl
Greamer is an extremely uh was an
extremely uh renowned scientist and I
would say he still is because his legacy
will keep on
>> and it becomes the consensus reality in
conventional astronomy that we're not
alone. We'll owe a lot of that paradigm
shattering insight to Dr. Gilmir's
groundwork. But Gilmare also studied
celestial bodies much closer to home. He
worked closely with Neoise, an
instrument which serves as planetary
defense. You heard me right. Neoise
could be the first line of defense
against humans going the way of the
dinosaurs. So, Gilmir had as front line
of view as you can get when it came to
the potential for Earth's extinction.
He's published extensively and his
research has earned him a number of
accolades, including NASA's exceptional
scientific achievement medal in 2011.
Recently, Gilmare had begun work on a
new project, testing new instrumentation
at Caltech's Palomar Observatory to
monitor for meteor impacts on the moon's
surface during an upcoming lunar
eclipse. Another colleague,
collaborator, and lead scientist, Joe
Masiierro, said, "It is a really
exciting project, and I know Carl was
looking forward to seeing what we could
learn about the near space environment
from that. It made perfect sense that
someone so passionate about the night
skies would build a home outfitted with
his own observatory. And what makes no
sense is why a neighbor would seemingly
stalk him on his property in December
and returned to kill him in February. On
December 20th, 2025, according to
sheriff officials in court records, Carl
Gilmer called the police to report
someone trespassing on his sprawling lot
in Lo. Deputies were dispatched and when
they arrived, they found 29-year-old
Lano resident Freddy Snyder wandering
the rugged landscape nearby carrying a
loaded unregistered rifle. Snyder
claimed he was just headed to the post
office and carried the weapon for
self-defense against wild animals. But
the LA Times uncovered Snyder's property
records, indicating the post office was
in the opposite direction of his and
Gilmare's home. The sheriff's arrested
Snyder on a felony weapons charge and
booked him at the Palmdale Station Jail,
where he was accused of attempting to
escape before his court appearance. When
Snyder showed up at court, the judge
told him to complete a gun safety
course, citing his lack of past criminal
record and an unnecessary prosecutions
law as the reason for his leniency.
Snyder was released from jail on his own
recgnissance. Things calmed in the new
year, at least temporarily, until
another 911 call came in on February
16th. At 6:10 a.m., deputies responded
to a 911 call for assault with a deadly
weapon. Carl Grilmare had been shot on
his porch. Paramedics pronounced him
dead at the scene. While the deputies
responded to the 911 call at the
Grillare residence, another call came
in. A carjacking had occurred just down
the road. Freddy Snyder was arrested for
the carjacking and was subsequently
linked to Gilmare's shooting. Snyder,
the man who was released from custody
for lacking a criminal record, was now
charged with several felonies, including
burglary, carjacking, and murder. This
time, his bail was set at just above $3
million. Investigators have yet to
uncover a motive, and they've found no
evidence that Snider and Grillare were
acquainted. No one has an explanation
for why this man suddenly went on a
crime spree that began and ended with
Carl Gilmare. And Freddy Snider's
arraignment was postponed from March
26th to April 29th. So, it may take many
months to uncover just what happened
here. Could Grill have stumbled upon
something he wasn't supposed to? Was
Snider being controlled by darker
forces? Was he just a pathy or an
extension of something deeper? Recently,
Dr. Grilmare had been working on the
revolutionary Vera Rubin Observatory, an
observatory which saw its first light
mere months before his untimely death.
The Vera Rubin Observatory is one of the
largest scale surveys of the sky ever
undertaken. It produces over a thousand
images every night covering the entire
southern hemisphere from horizon to
horizon. And it promises to
revolutionize the search for
interstellar objects. Currently, we've
only ever detected three objects
confirmed to be entering the solar
system from beyond, but astronomers
estimate Vera Rubin will discover 50 by
the time its run is over. It will show
us our own solar system in unprecedented
detail. On its first act of night, it
revealed over 2,000 previously
undiscovered asteroids. Here's where
things take an interesting, albeit very
speculative, turn. In 2017, we
discovered Amua Mua, the first ever
interstellar object to visit our solar
system. It had some very strange
properties, especially the way it
accelerated without any visible
commentary tail, leading past American
alchemy guest and Harvard astrophysicist
Avi Lobe to speculate that it may be a
spacecraft or alien artifact. It was
given the name of Mua Mua because it
means in the Hawaiian language a scout
>> uh a messenger from far away.
>> All the proposals that were put on the
table to explain the anomalies of Amua
Mua invoked a rock of a type that we've
never seen before. With Reuben now
online, we're poised to discover many
more Umua Muas. Which is why Vera Rubin
is now motivating mainstream SETI
researchers to start scanning our solar
system for more anomalies which could be
alien spacecraft or probes. If our solar
system is in fact filled in
extraterrestrial spacecrafts and
artifacts from visiting civilizations,
Reuben is perfectly poised to pick them
up. But there's also a big limitation.
All of Reubin's imagery has to be
approved by the Pentagon. This is not a
conspiracy theory. It's a publicly known
fact as reported in this article from
The Atlantic. Every image gets reviewed
by the intelligence agencies before the
scientific community is allowed to see
it. As The Atlantic article reports, a
government agency would chip in $5
million for the construction of a
dedicated network for moving sensitive
data. Each time the telescope were to
take one of its 30-second tile images of
the sky, the file would be immediately
encrypted without anyone looking at it
first and then sent to a secure facility
in California. Next, an automated system
would compare the image with previous
images of the same tile. It would cut
out small postage stamp pictures of any
new object it finds, be they asteroids,
exploding stars, or spy satellite. It
would filter out the postage stamps that
might depict secret US assets and one
minute later send all the rest together
with their coordinates to an alert
service available to astronomers
worldwide. This level of intense
intelligence community oversight over
what you might expect to be a
conventional astronomical tool is not
unprecedented. A much smaller all sky
survey called Pan Stars, the same one
which discovered AmuA Mua, underwent
massive censorship from the Air Force
with swaths of imagery redacted or
blacked out. Astronomers complained that
these redactions often got in the way of
their work. Now, what if you were to
spot a UFO on one of these things? Of
course, the publicly stated reason for
this has nothing to do with UFOs and
everything to do with classified spy
satellites and military space assets.
Most of the time this is probably true,
but it does have other implications.
Past American alchemist Dr. Beatatrice
V. Riel discovered a possibly vast
population of unknown objects orbiting
the Earth. She found tens of thousands
of transients, light reflecting
mirrorlike objects orbiting the Earth.
and she found them on astronomical
plates from 1949 to 1957
before Sputnik or any American
satellites were up in space. She also
found them on astronomical plates from
the Palomar Observatory, the same place
associated with Carl Grilmare. Voral is
currently working on replicating her
results. And if I had to guess, I think
we're going to find some interesting
corroboration for them.
>> I've been working with transients for a
while. I think a lot of people know
about this transient work where where we
have been looking for like multiple
transients in images. Sometimes you can
see multiple of them appearing and
vanishing within half an hour.
>> So if there truly is a population of
UFOs surrounding the Earth, the Reuben
telescope, Grillare's pet project at the
end of his life would certainly catch
them. But again, anything it sees would
have to get a Pentagon stamp of approval
before ever reaching the general public
and scientific community. Now, this is
definite speculation, and I want to make
the disclaimer that there's no direct
evidence suggesting this, but the
question has to be asked. Did Grillare
potentially see something in the Reuben
data that wasn't meant for public
release? He might have seen something
classified, but why would he want to
report on that? If he saw something more
anomalous, it would be hard to tell him
in good faith as a scientist to not tell
the public. We may never know, but Dr.
Gilmare's targeted killing leaves many
questions unanswered. Snider's bizarre
lenient treatment. The disappearances of
General McCass, Monica Resza, and
Melissa are all notable because of the
access they had to top secret
intelligence and technology produced at
our nation's premier space, science, and
defense facilities. The murder of Carl
Gilmare, if premeditated and
intentional, would represent a
terrifying escalation in this attack on
science. A mind like Gilmar's doesn't
come along very often. A senseless act
of violence is always a tragedy. But
when the expertise of an astronomer like
Carl is wiped off the planet, we can
leave no stone left unturned. Which
brings us to another shocking and
senseless act of violence that took out
another of the world's preeminent
scientific minds. This time, an expert
on nuclear fusion.
Nuno Felipe Gomez Lurero was born in
1977 in Visu, a city in central
Portugal. Even as a little boy, he
always knew he wanted to be a scientist.
In a 2018 MIT profile, Nuno recalled how
everyone else wanted to be a policeman
or a fireman. He couldn't quite place
the origin of his scientific interest.
He followed that passion to Lisbon where
he received his undergraduate and
master's degree at the Instituto
Superior Technico in Lisbon. Nuno then
went on to attend Imperial College in
London, earning a doctorate in physics
in 2005 with a dissertation on tearing
modes in plasma. After graduating, Nuno
arrived in the United States to join
Princeton University as a postdoctoral
researcher at the plasma physics lab in
2005.
From 2007 to 2016, Nuno worked in a
laboratory for the UK Atomic Energy
Authority and as a researcher at the
Plasma and Nuclear Fusion Institute in
Portugal. In 2016, Lura returned to the
United States, joining the faculty at
MIT as a professor in fusion scientist.
>> I'm Nuno Lorero. I'm a professor at MIT.
Uh I'm an appointment in nuclear science
and engineering. He flourished at MIT
and by 2022 became deputy director of
MIT's largest lab, the plasma science
infusion center,
>> which is an umbrella research center at
MIT
for all the plasma and fusion related
activities that we do on campus.
And in January 2025, President Joe Biden
presented him with the Presidential
Early Career Award, the highest US
government honor for young scientists.
To say Nuno was a renowned physicist
would be a massive understatement. He
was a leading expert in plasma physics.
The work Nuno was conducting at MIT was
attempting to solve the hardest problems
in nuclear fusion.
problems that would unlock our
capabilities in clean fusion power,
potentially solving the world's energy
crisis forever. For those unaware,
nuclear fusion would be the ultimate
clean energy dream, bringing the sun to
the earth and powering our whole
society. No fossil fuel pollution or
Chernobyl style meltdown necessary.
Wielding fusion power would dramatically
reduce the human need for fossil fuels.
And with that, we might be able to avoid
a lot of the geopolitical escapades
we're seeing happening today.
But there's one great challenge. Plasma
is a chaotic soup of charged ionized gas
which behaves in wildly unpredictable
ways. To contain it and to force the
atoms to fuse demands a special magnetic
field, one which binds the plasma up
into just the right geometry and under
just enough pressure to force the atoms
to merge despite the immense repulsive
force between them. There are many
challenges to nuclear fusion, but
perhaps the greatest is the problem of
the containment field. It is no simple
task, but it's where Nuno Lero excelled.
His research was especially focused on
one of the greatest challenges in plasma
containment fields, magnetic
reconnection.
Consider the loops of plasma we see on
the sun. Plasma gets trapped in arcs of
opposite magnetic force. It usually gets
trapped in tubes of electromagnetic
energy. Hot particles rising out of the
sun's surface and falling back in.
Sometimes, like a rubber band that's
been stretched too much, it snaps. The
field lines break. All the energy stored
in the field bursts out as the particles
heat up and accelerate out. Then the
field reconnects. This process causes
solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
The kind of events that could one day
fry our entire grid with an
electromagnetic pulse or EMP. Nuno was a
real blue sky researcher studying the
phenomenon of magnetic reconnection
itself.
But his work had extremely practical
applications. Because just as
reconnection causes flares from the sun,
it's also a major factor in our attempts
to bring the sun's power down to Earth
and do so in the form of real nuclear
fusion. Giant donut-shaped tokamac
reactors use powerful magnets to contain
superheated plasma. And magnetic
reconnection is one of the greatest
obstacles to sustained nuclear fusion.
Just like plasma ejections from the sun,
often with fusion, a leak gets created
leading to rapid cooling and pressure
loss. This effectively stops the fusion
process dead in its tracks. Nuno Lurero
was one of the world's experts in
understanding the intricacies of exactly
how and why these magnetic reconnection
leaks happen. We don't know if Nuno came
close to solving the problem of magnetic
field line breaks, but we do know he was
probably as close as anybody. And at 47
years old, it's safe to say he had many
impressive decades of discovery and
invention ahead of him. Except on
December 15th, Dr. Nuno Lorero was
gunned down inside his Brookline,
Massachusetts home.
Nuno Lorero was a husband, a father, an
award-winning scientist, an expert in
his field. He was shot in the foyer of
his apartment while his wife, mother,
and daughters played a card game inside.
The only other person who saw his killer
was his 12-year-old daughter, who first
answered the door for what she thought
was a delivery man. Later, authorities
would report that Clauddio Emanuel Neves
Valente, the Portuguese national and top
suspect in the shooting at Brown
University that had occurred just 2 days
prior, was likely also Nuno's killer. In
some ways, this seemed very plausible.
Nuno and Cladio had both studied physics
together 20 years ago at Portugal's
Instituto Superior Technico. Physics
programs are tight-knit. They're also
highly competitive. The men certainly
knew each other and were part of the
same graduating class, but Nuno was
actually an average student in
undergrad, whereas Clauddio was tied
with another student for top of his
class. Claudio had his heart set on MIT
for graduate school, but as a surprise
to everyone, he didn't score very well
on his graduate school admissions test,
making MIT a reach. He ultimately didn't
get in. Clauddio Valente was accepted to
Brown University instead, but felt let
down by a lack of academic rigor in
their physics program, insisting his
classes were too easy, covering material
he'd already learned in undergrad.
Claudio is described as egotistical and
combative by his classmates at Brown. He
only made it a year into the program
before taking a leave of absence.
Eventually, he dropped out of the
program entirely and returned to
Portugal. That year, he posted a
disgruntled note online. Happy now? And
some now believe Valente harbored deep
resentment for his former classmate Nuno
Lorero, whose massive success would have
been assault in the wound.
Back in Portugal, tail between his legs,
Valente worked at an internet company
called Sappo or SAP OO. His colleagues
described him as highly competent and
rigorous, polite, but aloof. His closest
friend at work, Sergio Bastos, who
worked with him for 7 years, insisted
Valente was an extraordinary
professional. He did things that few
people were capable of doing, but
admitted that he was very lonely. I
think one of the great regrets he had
was that he couldn't create his own
family. Mr. Basau said he had few social
skills, and I don't think he had any
girlfriends in the years we worked
together.
One day in 2013, Valente reported to
work. He declared it would be his last
day. He turned in his laptop and he was
never seen again.
Basos tried in vain to reach out, but at
this point, no one from Valente's former
life could make contact, including his
own family. In 2017, Valente applied for
and was awarded a visa to the United
States. He settled in Miami, Florida,
where authorities are still trying to
piece together how exactly he spent his
time. What we do know is that for the
past 3 years, Valente rented a storage
unit in Salem, New Hampshire, and
returned to Providence numerous times to
conduct surveillance on the Brown
campus.
Investigators eventually traced Valente
to Boston as early as November 17th,
2025.
By late November, he had checked into a
Boston hotel and began making repeated
trips to Providence.
A janitor at Brown saw a masked man
matching Valent's description inside the
Baris and Holly engineering building on
November 28th and again on December 1st.
On December 1st, Valente rented a blueg
gray Nissan Sentra with Florida plates.
That car was seen repeatedly around
Brown between December 1st and December
12th. The picture was clear. This was
pre-operational reconnaissance.
Valente executed his plan on Saturday,
December 13th, 2025. He barged into an
open lecture hall in the Bareris and
Holly building, the home of the physics
department where students were taking
final exams before their winter holiday.
Around 400 p.m., Valente opened fire
with a 9mm pistol, killing two students
and injuring nine others.
Valente would leave a confessional video
behind. It was filmed in his storage
unit as a massive federal and state
manhunt was still underway. He confessed
that he had spent six semesters planning
his attack at Brown. After the shooting
on December 13th, Valente successfully
evaded law enforcement for two full days
using a burner phone with a European SIM
card, as well as swapping out credit
cards and the license plate on his
rental car. His identity remained a
mystery. Valente might have gotten away
with his crimes, except for the fact
that he had one more act of violence
planned. At some point between Saturday
and Sunday, Valente drove back to
Boston. And on Monday, December 15th,
Valente spent the day pacing around
Commonwealth Avenue. Maybe Valente saw
Lorero as a representation of everything
he couldn't amount to. a successful
academic, a family man, a leader in his
field of physics, a successful immigrant
to America. This may have just been a
modern physics-based rendition of an
age-old Shakespearean play, but still,
there's something both strangely
calculated and apprehensive about
Claudia Valente's actions leading up to
his confrontation with Lurero.
Authorities have much more information
about Valente's whereabouts in
Providence prior to his Brown shooting.
After that, he kind of goes dark and for
the rest of Saturday and all of Sunday,
Valente seems to drop off the map. On
Monday, December 15th, Providence police
were still circulating surveillance
clips from Brown. They were also still
interviewing survivors. The shooter had
not been identified. That same evening,
at about 8:30 p.m., Lora was shot at his
home on Gibb Street in Brooklyn,
Massachusetts. Earlier that day, the
familiar Nissan made its first
appearance parked on Babcock Street
around 8:00 a.m., five or six blocks
from Lurero's home. Then, starting
around 1:20 p.m., police say security
cameras recorded a masked person at
different points along Commonwealth
Avenue. Nuno reportedly got home from
overseeing PhD qualifying exams at MIT
that day around 6:00 p.m. At 8:23 p.m.,
a camera records the suspect, now masked
and wearing a vest over his darker
clothing. At 8:30 p.m., the doorbell to
Lero's apartment rings repeatedly. His
youngest daughter opens the front door
and peaks into the foyer.
She sees through the glass a man
standing inside of the building, but on
the other side of the foyer door. Her
description of the man's clothing is
mostly in line with the footage
revealed, but she adds that the yellow
vest he wore had some gray stripes.
There are a few discrepancies in her
observations compared to the footage
seen of the suspect that day. She even
describes the shooter as having short
facial hair, which suggests that he's
not wearing a mask. And according to
her, he's also wearing a winter hat and
carrying a cardboard package about the
size of a dictionary. She thinks he's a
delivery man because the package has a
barcode on it. Lorero's daughter returns
to the living room as Nuno replaces her
at the front door to deal with the
visitor.
The whole family hears gunshots and
rushes to Lorero, who is wounded in the
upper left chest, upper abdomen, right
thigh, and has a graze wound through his
left thigh. The daughter sees the
shooter run to a blue or gray car parked
across the street. At 8:35 p.m., the
cameras outside a Boston University
Police Department record a Nissan
operated by someone wearing a high-rise
vest. Minutes later, another camera
records the vehicle heading out of the
city. If we're to believe that the
shooter was Valente, it seems clear that
once Lorero was shot, he immediately
went into hiden. He switched the rental
car's plates to an unregistered plate
from Maine, then drove to his storage
facility in New Hampshire. Investigators
said Valente entered that facility about
an hour after the Brooklyn shooting. The
Department of Justice transcript of the
videos that Valente later recorded in
that storage unit adds a very grim layer
to the story. In these recordings,
Valente said he had planned the Brown
attack for a long time. The language
Valente uses implies that both of the
attacks were intentional, but it still
leaves the reason for targeting Lorero
maddeningly vague. Yes, the two men had
studied in the same university in the
1990s, but there's no evidence of a
recent dispute, direct contact, or a
concrete grievance tied to the Brooklyn
attack. A second anomaly is the mismatch
between planning and execution. Valente
seems to have surveiled Brown
repeatedly. He would return constantly
to the same building. He rented both a
car and storage unit in advance. Yet his
own post crime confession depicts the
actual Brown shooting as totally
botched. He said he never wanted to do
it in an auditorium. He even suggested
that people could have escaped via an
emergency exit. He also complained about
his eye injury and described the whole
thing as quote a little incompetent. A
third anomaly is the timeline gap
between the two attacks. Where exactly
was Valente in the roughly 48 hours
before Lero was shot? Where was he
staying? How did he locate Lorero? How
could he even be sure Lurero was home?
Nuno had only just returned from a trip
to DC. Was he being tracked somehow?
Valente's videos hint that the second
slang was also intentional, but not how
far back the planning went. Detectives
arrived on the scene to find Lorero
distressed, but consciously alert. As
he's transported to the hospital, one
paramedic says he doesn't say anything.
She believes he was in shock. He answers
questions by shaking his head, but at
the hospital, he was able to provide his
name and information. If Lorero had
recognized his possibly unmasked killer
as his former classmate, would he have
said anything? Tragically, Nuno Lurero
went into surgery that evening, but did
not survive. He was pronounced dead the
following morning.
In the days that followed, they spoke to
the MIT professor's family and
colleagues, and they said that there was
no threat present, and they still have
no motive. Everything about this case is
shocking, but particularly Valent's
combination of caution and sloppiness.
He went to great efforts and lengths in
Providence to wipe any trace of his
movements, keep his identity hidden, but
then he arrives in Boston and paces back
and forth in public locations that would
obviously have security cameras. It
almost seems as if he was having cold
feet. Or maybe he was awaiting
instruction, subliminal or conscious
instruction.
As we've covered on this show, the
horrifying ability to program assassins
is remarkably easy, and it's been
demonstrated by governments globally and
employed to take out targets at the
highest level. What remains unresolved
is why Lurero was chosen. what exactly
happened in the two days between the
Brown massacre and the Brooklyn attack
and whether Lorero had been a
long-standing target or simply became
one after the Brown shooting was already
underway. What we do know is that Nuno
Lorero's loss is devastating. He wasn't
just the head of MIT's plasma science
infusion center. Nuno was still an
active professor, training the next
generation of top scientific minds to
push us farther in harnessing the power
of our sun and creating clean energy on
Earth. He was twice awarded the MIT
Department of Nuclear Science and
Engineering Outstanding Professor Award.
He was given this for the beloved
courses that he taught both intro to
plasma physics and MHD theory of fusion
systems. MHD or magneto hydrodronamics
also could have just as sensitive
implications as nuclear fusion. It's the
less focused on aspect of Lurero's work.
>> And these are called the magneto
hydrodnamic equations. They're
hydrodnamics, but now there's magnetic
field. So you refer to this as magneto
hydrodnamics.
>> Some believe that it could lead to a
whole new paradigm in flight and
propulsion. The point is an attack on
Nuno was an attack on the future of
science. There's no other way to say it.
To put it simply, Nuno was the tip of
the spear on sustained, clean,
widespread nuclear fusion energy. Could
that be why someone wanted him dead?
This brings us to a strange coincidence
we have to bring up when discussing Nuno
Lorero's murder.
>> Breaking news out of Brooklyn. An MIT
professor shot and killed. He was shot
several times in the foyer of his
Brooklyn home. Just 2 days after Nuno's
death, one of the top privately funded
fusion companies, TAE Technologies,
announced a massive merger with a
surprising publicly traded company. T AE
would merge with none other than Trump
Media and Technology Group. The company
behind Trump's social media platform,
Truth Social. The deal was announced on
December 18th, 2025. Lorero died on
December 16th. The announcement didn't
coincide with any decisive technical
breakthroughs. Nonetheless, this
combined entity was suddenly valued at
around $6 billion. TAE is a private
long-running experimental company. Their
mission is to build a neutronic fusion
reactors using hydrogen boron fuel to
make commercial nuclear energy. But just
like all fusion enterprises so far, they
have yet to produce net energy or
commercial power. TAE is still
pre-revenue and pre-product in its core
mission. So why is any of this relevant?
Well, there are a few key competitors in
the race with TAE to produce commercial
nuclear power. One of their biggest
competitors is a company called
Commonwealth Fusion Systems.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is a company
that emerged directly from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Its founders built their work on decades
of MIT's institutional research. The MIT
plasma science infusion center
collaborates closely with the company
and contributes fundamental plasma
physics essential to its reactor design
and Nuno Lorero was the director of the
plasma science and fusion center at the
time of his death. So the head of
research that directly supports
Commonwealth's aim of stable nuclear
energy was assassinated on his doorstep.
>> We want to give you some context on
exactly where this happened. The
shooting was on street in Brooklyn. Shot
and killed at his home.
>> I'm walking around. I got children in
the playground right around the corner.
>> Authorities say the Portuguese professor
died at a hospital this morning.
>> And 2 days later, one of Commonwealth's
biggest competitors announces a merger
with a sitting president's publicly
traded company.
Does that mean anything? I'm not
entirely sure, and I genuinely don't
want to insinuate anything. But I also
think it's dogmatic and unreasonable to
say that the timing isn't odd. Again,
there are reasonable explanations for
this merger. Most analysts say that any
fusion company will need the support of
the federal government to bring this
nent, unproven, and extremely costly
technology out of the laboratories and
onto the power grid. It's simply too
cost and infrastructure intensive and
would involve a complete overhaul of our
current grid system. There are other
power players in oil and gas who have an
interest in TAE. A great example is
Chevron. Ultimately, the question
remains, what lengths would the power
players in energy go to shore up their
survival and dominance? There's clearly
a race to control the technology that
could determine the future of energy,
aerospace, and intelligence in our
modern world. And Nuno Lurero's research
was at the heart of it.
>> I think on any given day, it's tempting
to go for the lowhanging fruit. be a
little more ambitious and tackle the
really hard problems.
>> It would hardly be the first time
scientific talent tied to strategic
technology seemed to attract a shadow of
danger. In the heart of the Cold War, as
America raced to build Reagan's Star
Wars missile shield, something deeply
sinister began happening to the
scientists building it. It's a story so
rich in intrigue that if it were
fiction, it would likely be a bestseller
because All of the Dead, almost two
dozen to date, worked in Western
Europe's defense industry.
You might not know that Star Wars, also
known as the Strategic Defense
Initiative, was actually a joint effort
between the United States and some of
its key allies like Great Britain.
Between 1982 and 1990, 25 engineers and
computer scientists, all working for GEC
Maronei on some of Britain's most
classified defense projects, all died
one after another.
>> I call upon the scientific community in
our country, those who gave us nuclear
weapons to turn their great talents now
to the cause of mankind and world peace.
And each case was so bizarre, they
consistently defied rational
explanation. A 24year-old jumped from a
suspension bridge. His body was then
found with mysterious needle puncture
wounds in it. A 26-year-old allegedly
drove his car away from a tree with a
rope tied between his neck and its
trunk, decapitating himself. And the
coroner called it suicide. A Ministry of
Defense consultant was found in his flat
with his feet bound, a plastic bag over
his head, and a rope coiled four times
around his body. This was ruled an
accident due to quote unquote sexual
misadventure. A senior radar scientist
loaded his car with extra petrol cans
and drove it at full speed into an
abandoned cafe.
Another was found electrocuted in his
his garden shed, wires attached to his
garden shed, wires attached to his body,
body, a handkerchief stuffed in his
a handkerchief stuffed in his mouth.
mouth. Open verdict. One man simply
Open verdict. One man simply disappeared
disappeared during a research experiment
during a research experiment at a
at a reservoir and turned up months
reservoir and turned up months later in
later in Paris with no memory of how he
Paris with no memory of how he got
got there.
there. Another was found electrocuted in
The British government investigated
nothing, held no inquiry, classified the
files, and to this day, not a single
person has ever been charged.
Was it the KGB, MI5, or something else
entirely? Nobody knows. The case is
officially closed yet also unsolved.
This is just one anomalously condensed
example. Time and again, when scientific
minds get closer to unlocking new facets
of our reality or get too close to the
crown jewels of defense, they seem to be
removed from the conversation. Take the
disappearance of Mexican
neurohysiologist and psychologist Jacobo
Grinberg, who vanished in 1994, just
after his biggest discovery. That space
wasn't empty, but rather filled with a
massive energy matrix he dubbed the
lattice. How we see the world was based
on our tether to this matrix. And those
with the honed ability to synchronize
their cognition with the lattice would
be able to bend the hologram to their
own designs. Just like Neo in the
Matrix, Grinberg had seemingly stumbled
upon something foundational. And then he
was never seen again.
After convening with some top scientific
minds in the year prior, his lab was
cleared out and his records were erased.
The only thing left behind was a single
chilling note. If you understand the
system, you disappear.
Speaking of disappearances, we'd be
remiss if we didn't mention one of the
most famous disappearances in modern
aviation tied to the scientific realm.
On March 8th, 2014, Malaysia Airlines
flight MH370 took off from Koala Lumpur
with 239 people aboard.
Somewhere over the South China Sea, its
transponder stopped transmitting.
Malaysian military radar later showed
that after going dark, the plane made an
unexplained U-turn, flew for another
several hours in the wrong direction,
then vanished from the Earth so
completely that despite the most
expensive search in aviation history,
only a small number of debris fragments
believed to be from the MH370 crash have
turned up alongside the coasts of Africa
and a handful of Indian Ocean Islands.
And around that disappearance, a wild
theory took shape. It centered on
alleged drone footage and a companion
infrared video. Researcher Ashton Forbes
claims that these videos show MH370 over
the Nicabar Islands being encircled by
three fusionpowered plasma orbs that
generate a spinning wormhole teleporting
the plane westward likely toward the
Maldes or Diego Garcia as part of a
covert military black program operation
targeting high value engineers.
Now, I want to be super clear. I don't
know what to make of these videos.
Impressive people from the intelligence
and military world have told me they are
very fake and that for example they've
never seen thermal infrared imaging on
these sorts of systems in full color.
But there's another narrative that gets
slept on and doesn't require any belief
in UFOs zapping an airplane out of the
sky. Among the documented passengers on
the MH370 flight were 20 engineers from
Freescale Semiconductor,
an American semiconductor company that
had just announced new products,
including devices relevant to radar and
electronic warfare for defense market
applications. The employees included
mostly Chinese and Malaysian specialists
whose work involved the kind of
microchip technology that sits at the
intersection of civilian computing and
military applications. Some researchers
believe that this is what made the group
valuable not just as passengers on a
missing plane but as carriers of highly
specialized scientific expertise. If
those engineers were in fact tied to the
future of military micro electronics,
then they represented a gold mine of
technical knowledge for the next
generation of defense technology. In any
case, it's not the first instance of a
mysterious aircraft malfunction claiming
the life of a top scientist.
Bentov was a self-taught inventor and
scientist. Born in Czecha Slovakia
during World War II, he escaped Nazi
Germany to Israel. Once there, he helped
invent the country's first rocket
despite lacking formal science training.
But his true passion lay in unpacking
the mysteries of consciousness, which he
believed was made up of vibrating
harmonious atoms. His theories helped
shape the foundation of the CIA's
gateway process, a protocol developed by
consciousness researcher Robert Monroe
in Virginia to achieve ascended states
in consciousness and possibly even
astrally project. Bentoff also consulted
with the Stanford Research Institute and
worked closely with many of the people
in the US forming the CIA's psychic spy
program, Stargate.
Bentoff's life was tragically cut short
at 55 years old
when American Airlines Flight 191
crashed shortly after taking off from
Chicago O'Hare airport, claiming the
lives of all crew and passengers on
board.
Many researchers in parasychology and
consciousness say that Bento was as
close to the truth or a theory of
everything in consciousness that you
could get. He also had deep ties with
American and Israeli intelligence. He
was even a close associate of Andre
Puharic, who was one of the earliest
architects of MK Ultra, the CIA's mind
control program. Bento's extremely dense
and almost indecipherable book about
consciousness, stalking the wild
pendulum, has become a cult classic, and
many people who research him say the
same things about him that they do
Grinberg. If there is a matrix, this guy
might have found out how to control it
and how to get out. But not every
scientist on this list was lost in a
single catastrophic moment. Some seemed
to fade from view and get marginalized
as their work moved deeper into the
classified world.
Take Ning Lee, a Chinese American
physicist in Huntsville, Alabama, known
for her radical work on superconductors
and gravity control. Working with her
colleague Douglas Tor, she proposed that
cooled type 2 YBCO superconductors might
produce tiny gravidomic effects, a
theory that pointed towards a possible
path to gravity control technology.
After leaving the University of Alabama
and receiving Defense Department
funding, she largely vanished from
public view with rumors that her work
had disappeared into the classified
defense world. Her story took an even
darker turn in 2014 when she was struck
by a car on the University of Alabama
campus and suffered permanent brain
damage. She later developed Alzheimer's
disease and died on July 27th, 2021,
leaving behind one of the more haunting
stories in gravity research, a physicist
who chased gravity, vanished into
secrecy, and never really came back.
And then there's the story of John
Norsine, a former Navy pilot, weapons
designer, and neuroengineer at Loheed
Martin, who is known for his work in
biofusion, biometrics, neuroweaponry,
and information security concepts tied
to neural pattern recognition and human
machine integration. He talks about
brain prints, the idea that we have
fingerprints, but you might also have a
unique kind of uh, you know,
signature
>> just like Iris or whatever.
>> One close friend described his work in
even darker terms, saying the weapons he
designed involved manipulation of the
mind, ideas that pushed into territory
we'd never now categorize as cognitive
warfare. You said that John Norine, you
spoke to John Norine and he was
>> at Alagash in the 19 in 1976 in August
when you guys were there and experienced
your abduction. Is that right?
>> He read our report to the ranger that
same day.
>> And what what did he say he was doing
there? He said he was doing a TTR, tag,
trace, retrieve exercise with a
subcutaneous
device that they were testing that they
could
>> monitor GPS field agents. You know, it
would tell them like blood pressure,
heart rate, that sort of stuff.
>> Norine died while on business for
Concurrent Technologies on September
27th, 2007. Exactly what happened
remains unclear.
Norine's story brings us back to the
larger pattern because this is bigger
than just one man or one strange death.
Again and again, the people working
closest to powerful secret scientific
knowledge are the ones who seem to
become the most vulnerable.
So where does this leave us? With the
realization that even our own
government, the most powerful entity on
Earth, seems unable or unwilling to
fully protect the very people building
its future. Or because every case points
to the same explanation. For example,
General Neil McCasslin's case seems
eerily possibly connected to Monica
Resza's. The killing of Carl Gilmare
seems possibly of the same variety as
what happened to Nuno Lorero.
But ultimately, all of these cases could
be isolated.
Sometimes the explanations for these
things involve extreme human irrational
emotion,
but sometimes they involve foul play.
Whether it's homegrown blackbudget
cleanup crews willing to kill anyone who
gets too close to their proprietary
technology or foreign adversaries taking
out experts to hollow out American brain
power before the next big war. The real
crown jewels aren't the weapons or the
hard drives, but the minds, the
judgment, the intuition, and the years
of trial and error that most people
never see. You can steal documents or
hack a server, but if you really want to
shortcut the future, you steal the
person who already solved the problem.
We like to imagine the black world as
restricted hangers and test sites, but
the most valuable assets in the world
still get up in the morning and drive to
work.
Maybe there's an even stranger
possibility hovering over all of this.
One that moves beyond terrestrial
politics and into the highly speculative
realm of exopolitics.
relations between Earth and other
intelligences that average citizens
might not even know exists. During the
Bush administration, key players in the
federal government were urged to read
the Chinese science fiction novel, The
Threebody Problem, written by a power
plant engineer, Xihinlu. It's about
Tricolarian extraterrestrials forced out
of their own unstable solar system and
headed for Earth. The Tricolarians
systematically monitor, mess with, and
sometimes even kill human scientists at
the frontier of human ingenuity. These
are usually people working on nuclear,
plasma, and particle accelerator
physics. Sounds kind of familiar.
Basically, the scientists that control
the rules of reality itself.
So, why was the upper echelon of the
American government reading this book?
Why did a presidential adviser named
Harold Melmgrren who worked directly
with JFK, LBJ, Nixon, and Ford and who
was briefed on UFOs, why did he tell me
that this is how the nonhuman
intelligences operate by tracking the
frontier of human innovation?
>> They were opposed to anything which
threatened their control.
>> So, it's almost like the UFOs are more,
it's not just the atomic connection. and
they're generically attracted to the tip
of the spear as far as tech development.
>> That's at the heart of it.
>> Yeah. Why was Harold's daughter Pippa,
who was on George W. Bush's National
Economic Council, tasked with reading
the threebody problem? And if connecting
missing and dead scientists with aliens,
sounds super far-fetched. I get it. But
it's worthy asking yourself why UFOs so
very often seem to cluster around the
very technologies that define strategic
power.
They show up at nuclear sites across the
United States and the world. I've
personally interviewed many
whistleblowers who've worked at these
bases who claim this. Robert Hastings,
the author of the great book UFOs and
Nukes, has talked to almost 170 of these
people.
There was even a UFO crash right next to
Brook Haven National Labs. In case
you're not aware, Brook Haven houses a
very powerful particle accelerator
called Cosmotron. Witnesses of the UFO
crash claimed that the wreckage was
cleaned up and taken to the lab. This
isn't just an American phenomena.
Russian General Vasilei Alexv said that
UFOs would show up when they transported
sensitive scientific technology. The
Soviets have records around UFOs showing
up around their national labs and
nuclear sites. Which brings us back to
the strange question of why so many
government officials were framing all of
this problem. Maybe the threebody
problem was hiding truth in fiction.
There's an apocryphal story and
truthfully I don't know how much weight
to put in it, but it's absolutely wild.
It involves former President Barack
Obama and Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie
Veter drunk around a campfire.
Eddie presses Obama on the true nature
of reality. He wants to know how the
world really works at the highest level.
He senses that there are things going on
above his head. Obama's answer, read the
threebody problem.
I've had a lot of conversations where
people have asked me to do a video essay
commenting on these missing scientists.
I went into this investigation unsure of
whether any of these cases were linked
at all. And honestly, I came out feeling
like on a human level, they're mostly
not. Perhaps with the exception of
Monica Resza in Macassland, maybe it
represents forces operating on levels
higher than human clearance systems.
Many people forget that science itself
is weird. There's a long history of
quote unquote demons in science written
about extensively and eloquently by
former Harvard professor Jimea Canales.
Whether it's Heisenberg downloading
matrix multiplication at Elgoland, Dac
staring at the fire at Cambridge and
downloading the Dac equation, Pi
dreaming up the architecture of the
hydrogen atom, or Decart having a series
of his own prophetic dreams. If we were
to apply scientific scrutiny to the
process of scientific discovery itself,
it might begin to look less like
conventional science and inductive logic
and more like revelation or something
received.
Maybe entities higher than humans on the
food chain are both inspiring and at
times stagnating science. What we do
know for sure is that where there is
truth, there's violence. This goes back
to Socrates and it's historically been
the case with religious mystics. And if
you think religious truths are worth
dying for and that science and religion
meet at some omega point, then maybe
this is all true for science, too.
Because if science really is brushing up
against something deeper, the questions
underneath this pattern start to get
very dark.
But whether the forces at work deleting
these scientists are human or something
stranger, the cost is the same. The
people closest to the edges of what we
know, the ones rewriting the rules of
physics, scanning the sky for threats we
can't see yet, and unlocking the science
that shapes the next century. These are
the ones we keep losing. Their minds
were the prize. They were the ones
taking us into the future, and they are
now disappearing. The search continues
and the list is growing.
>> One of them is Alabama based scientist
Amy Escridge. She was openly studying
anti-gravity technology when she died in
2022. Her death was deemed a suicide by
a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but she
warned friends ahead of time that her
life could be in danger.
>> I don't believe that she killed herself.
I I just can't because I spoke to her
four hours before and she told me time
and time again, I'm not going to commit
suicide. I am not gonna uh have an
accident. If if there's something
suspicious about my death, it's because
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