House Oversight to investigate missing, dead US nuclear scientists
House Oversight Chairman James Comer said the committee will launch an investigation into the cases of more than
10 U.S. nuclear scientists who are reported missing or dead.
Comer said the panel plans to seek information and briefings from the Pentagon, FBI, Department of Energy and NASA, noting that several of the scientists held
high‑level security clearances.
Nearly a dozen researchers or people with links to aerospace or defense programs have disappeared or died in circumstances that some observers have deemed suspicious.
The highest-profile person on the list arguably is retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William McCasland, who is said to have overseen classified government programs that intersected with “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAPs.
A recent addition to the list, 34-year-old scientist Amy Eskridge, is reported to have died by suicide in 2022 in Alabama. Her father
told NewsNation he accepts that, saying, “Scientists die also, just like other people.”