Missing Scientists

Missing Scientists podcast cover art: embroidered magnifying glass with a watching eye on pine green cloth

Eleven names.
Eleven scientists.
Vanished or dead.

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Episode 02 Monica Reza Jacinto

Where is Monica Reza?

On a marked trail in the Angeles National Forest, NASA scientist Monica Reza waved to her friends, smiled, and was gone.

NASA materials scientist Monica Reza vanished from the Mount Waterman trail in the Angeles National Forest. The only trace ever recovered was a single red beanie, found 360 feet down a slope. She was an inventor of record on Mondaloy 200, the alloy that let an American rocket engine survive hot oxygen. Her boss was Neil McCasland, the retired Air Force general whose disappearance opened this series.

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Episode 01 William Neil McCasland

Where is Neil McCasland?

Eight weeks ago, retired Air Force general Neil McCasland walked out of his Albuquerque home and vanished.

President Trump called the disappearances “pretty serious stuff.” House Oversight Chairman James Comer demanded a federal briefing. The FBI is now spearheading the inquiry. Neil McCasland is the first name on a list that has since grown to eleven.

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Was it a planned vanishing?
Planned by whom?

Across the United States, in the last three and a half years, at least eleven scientists, engineers, and contractors connected to classified research are unalived or vanished. Neil McCasland, the retired Air Force general who walked into the desert outside Albuquerque. Amy Eskridge, the anti-gravity researcher in Huntsville. Nuno Loureiro, the MIT plasma physicist shot at his door. Carl Grillmair, the Caltech astronomer shot on his porch. Melissa Casias of Los Alamos. Monica Reza of JPL. The list is incomplete. The pattern, if it is a pattern, has not been confirmed.

President Trump has been briefed. House Oversight Chairman James Comer has begun an investigation. The FBI is now spearheading the inquiry. Theories run from foreign intelligence to domestic operations to legacy classified programs the public has never heard of: UFO disclosure, MKUltra, the questions Tom DeLonge’s To The Stars Academy was founded to ask. Missing Scientists is the show following all of them in daylight, testing what’s actually provable.

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