Fox & Friends Weekend<\/a>\u201d that when he first heard about the disappearances, they sounded like \u201csome kind of crazy conspiracy theory.\u201d But the details of the case changed his mind and prompted him to alert multiple government agencies.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve put a notice out to the Department of War,\u00a0to the FBI, to NASA, to the Department of Energy, that we want to know everything that they know about what happened with these scientists, because those four agencies were predominantly the agencies that those 11 individuals were affiliated with. And we want to try to piece this together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Comer plans to bring the leaders of these offices before\u00a0Congress, but said he sent the letters first to allow them time to ensure their testimony would not compromise any potentially classified investigations.<\/p>\n
He said he hoped anyone with information would bring it to the Oversight Committee, and that anyone affiliated with\u00a0America\u2019s nuclear program\u00a0should be on alert, given the possible security risks to the nation.<\/p>\n
James Comer warned Sunday that \u201csomething sinister could be happening\u201d after 11 scientists mainly tied to the U.S. nuclear and space research programs reportedly died or went missing under mysterious circumstances. Fox News<\/p>\n
A flowchart showing links between dead and missing officials in different organizations.<\/p>\n
NASA researcher Michael David Hicks, who worked on the DART Project and Deep Space 1 mission, died in July 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know there are many countries around the world that would love to have our knowledge and nuclear capabilities. And these are the people that were at the forefront of it, and they\u2019re either dead or missing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Missing or deceased figures include experimental propulsion researcher Amy Eskridge, 34; retired Air Force Maj. Gen.\u00a0William \u201cNeil\u201d McCasland, 68; NASA scientist Monica Jacinto Reza, 60; contractor Steven Garcia, 48; astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, 47; Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u00a0physicist Nuno Loureiro, 47; NASA engineer Frank Maiwald, 61; Los Alamos\u2013linked employees Melissa Casias, 53, and Anthony Chavez, 79; NASA researcher Michael David Hicks, 59; and pharmaceutical scientist Jason Thomas, 45.<\/p>\n
In response to the renewed public attention, President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0has vowed to investigate the mysterious disappearances and deaths of these scientists.<\/p>\n
Melissa Casias, a Los Alamos employee, was reported missing in June 2025. GoFundMe<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve put a notice out to the Department of War,\u00a0to the FBI, to NASA, to the Department of Energy, that we want to know everything that they know about what happened with these scientists, because those four agencies were predominantly the agencies that those 11 individuals were affiliated with. And we want to try to piece this together,\u201d Comer said. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope it\u2019s random, but we\u2019re going to know in the next week and a half,\u201d Trump told reporters Thursday. \u201cI just left a meeting on that subject.\u201d<\/p>\n
Additionally, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) previously told Fox News Digital it is looking into the cases.<\/p>\n
\u201cNNSA is aware of reports related to employees of our labs, plants, and sites and is looking into the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., warned Sunday that \u201csomething sinister could be happening\u201d after 11 scientists…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[23119,10815,44528,1577,79,15850,193,13059],"class_list":["post-595848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-james-comer","tag-media","tag-nuclear-power","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-science","tag-scientists","tag-space","tag-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}