Deceased — Researchers, Scientists & Related Figures # Name Date of Death Notes Source 1 Stanley Meyer March 21, 1998 Inventor of water-powered car; died at restaurant, last words "they poisoned me"; ruled brain aneurysm source 2 Stefan Marinov July 15, 1997 Physicist; fell from EU Parliament building, Brussels source 3 Floyd "Sparky" Sweet ~1995 Free energy (vacuum triode amplifier) researcher source 4 Robert C. "Cliff" Duncan 2003 DoD/NASA engineer; NAE member source 5 Mark McCandlish April 13, 2021 UFO/ARV researcher; ruled suicide (shotgun); was scheduled to testify at Senate UAP hearing source 6 Ning Li July 27, 2021 Physicist; superconductivity / anti-gravity research source 7 Amy Eskridge 2022 Co-founder, Institute for Exotic Science, Huntsville AL; family cites chronic pain source 8 Michael Hicks July 30, 2023 NASA JPL physicist (comets & asteroids); cause of death undisclosed source 9 Matthew Sullivan 2024 USAF intelligence officer; died before testifying in federal UFO whistleblower case; reported suicide source 10 Frank Maiwald July 4, 2024 NASA JPL space research specialist; died age 61, LA; cause not made public source 11 Matthew Livelsberger January 1, 2025 US Army Special Forces soldier; died in Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Trump International Hotel, Las Vegas source 12 Joshua LeBlanc July 22, 2025 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center electrical engineer (nuclear propulsion); body found in burned Tesla, Huntsville AL source 13 Nuno Loureiro December 2025 MIT professor; director, Plasma Science & Fusion Center; fatally shot at home near Boston by former classmate source 14 Feng Yanghe Unknown Chinese scientist; part of broader pattern reported by Newsweek source 15 Jason Thomas Body recovered March 17, 2026 Novartis scientist; disappeared December 12, 2025; body found in Lake Quannapowitt, MA; no foul play suspected source 16 Carl Grillmair February 16, 2026 Caltech/IPAC astrophysicist; fatally shot on front porch of LA County home; suspect arrested source 17 Andrew Moffatt ~April 13–17, 2026 UAH research engineer (RSESC); died in private plane crash returning from family funeral source 18 Wynn Free ~April 14–18, 2026 (disputed) Author; co-wrote The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce with Wilcock; exact date/cause unconfirmed source 19 David Wilcock April 20, 2026 UFO author, History Channel Ancient Aliens; died by suicide; family cites depression and financial debt source Missing — Researchers & Related Figures # Name Date Last Seen Notes Source 1 Anthony Chavez May 2025 Age 78; retired Los Alamos National Laboratory foreman; Los Alamos police investigating; no foul play indicated source 2 Melissa Casias June 2025 Age 53; Los Alamos administrative employee; last seen on highway near Talpa, NM; phone factory-reset before disappearance source 3 Monica Reza June 22, 2025 Age 60; NASA JPL aerospace engineer (director, Materials Processing Group); disappeared hiking near Mt. Waterman, Angeles National Forest source 4 Steven Garcia August 2025 Age 48; property custodian, NNSA Kansas City National Security Campus (Albuquerque); missing; no body found source 5 William Neil McCasland February 27, 2026 Retired Air Force Major General, age 68; commanded AFRL at Wright-Patterson AFB; walked out of Albuquerque home leaving phone, glasses, and wearables behind; FBI involved source If you know anything that can lead to justice for these missing researchers, please submit a tip to a trusted legislator or the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov/home. submitted by /u/TheGoldenLeaper [link] [comments]