Overview
- The White House, which on Friday said it is working with the FBI, announced a multi-agency review to examine the cases for any shared patterns.
- President Donald Trump, after a Thursday briefing at the White House, said he hopes the incidents are random and expects more answers within about a week and a half.
- Reports across outlets count roughly ten to eleven people since 2023 with ties to sensitive work in space and nuclear programs who have died or disappeared, including figures connected to JPL, Los Alamos, MIT, Caltech, and the Kansas City National Security Campus.
- Recent examples include retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland vanishing from his Albuquerque home and separate disappearances of Los Alamos employees, along with deaths of JPL-affiliated researchers and shootings of scientists in California and Massachusetts.
- Law enforcement and federal officials say there is no public evidence the cases are connected, and lawmakers have pressed for FBI involvement as agencies review potential security risks at key research sites.