WASHINGTON — President Trump declared Thursday that his administration will have an answer within the next few days to questions about 10 scientists who have mysteriously died or disappeared over the past three years.
Theories about the scientists have spread online, but there is no known evidence of a connection between those deaths and disappearances.
“I hope it’s random, but we’re going to know in the next week and a half,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn before jetting off to Las Vegas, noting he had just left a meeting on that subject. “Pretty serious stuff … hopefully a coincidence, or whatever you want to call it.”
“Some of them were very important people, and we’re going to look at it over the next short period,” he went on.
When asked by a reporter whether a foreign adversary could be behind the disappearances, Trump dinged his predecessor, chiding that “Well, Biden had open borders; it wasn’t very hard to get here.”
Among the missing scientists is retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William “Neil” McCasland, who went missing from his home in Albuquerque, NM, according to local officials. Investigators claimed he said he experienced “mental fog” before vanishing.
McCasland, who retired in 2013 and vanished Feb. 27, had worked in top positions pertaining to space research and acquisition. His name appeared in the WikiLeaks dump of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails, with a UFO enthusiast, Tom DeLonge, claiming to have conversed with him on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs).
The retired general left his phone, glasses, and personal devices at his home. Authorities noted that his wallet, hiking boots, and 38‑caliber revolver were missing.
His wife has publicly denied conspiracy theories that he had “any special knowledge about [alien] bodies and debris” from the notorious and mysterious 1947 Roswell incident.
Other missing scientists include: Melissa Casias, who had a security clearance at Los Alamos National Laboratory and vanished last June; Anthony Chavez, a retired Los Alamos National Laboratory worker who went missing last May; Jason Thomas, who led Novartis’ chemical biology team and was found dead this past March; NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer Frank Maiwald who died in 2024; famous MIT physicist Nuno Loureiro who was shot dead last December; exoplanet research Carl Grillmair, who was killed in February; Steven Garcia, who worked on security for a producer of non-nuclear components in American-made nukes and went missing in August of last year; and aerospace engineer Monica Jacinto Reza, who went missing last June.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked during a Wednesday briefing about the missing scientists, and reports that they “had access to classified nuclear or aerospace material.”
“I haven’t spoken to our relevant agencies about it,” she replied. “I will certainly do that, and we’ll get you an answer. If true, of course, that’s definitely something I think this government, administration would deem work worth looking into.”
