What was a list of 10 missing or dead scientists and deep state workers on April 16th has now grown to as many as 13. You’ll hear this group referred to as “missing and dead scientists” in headlines, but they weren’t all scientists. One was a retired two star general named William Neil McCasland, who walked out his front door in Albuquerque in February with his wallet and .38, but left his phone and eyeglasses behind. He plumb vanished.
Some close to the missing and dead feel resentful or confused about their loved one being included on this list. The wife of one victim, a Caltech astrophysicist named Carl Grillmair, murdered on his own front porch, was adamant that his was a totally random case of being attacked by a mentally disturbed person. Maybe some or all of these cases are just happenstance. President Trump said he hoped it was all a big coincidence. Crazier things have happened! Right?
Others, like Joe Rogan, are quick to point to a secret government plot.
So let’s consider, as a thought experiment, why some might suspect our own government or powerful American corporations of playing some role in disappearing the brightest minds in top secret research. Top secret scientists who say things like:
“… ‘didn’t we tell this bitch three years ago that we kill people for this? Is she not listening? What is she doing? She’s still doing it. What? We told her we were gonna kill her three years ago.’ So I have these two like I have these two…
‘They’re gonna kill you, don’t do it. Don’t do it.’”
That was Amy Eskridge, a scientist who specialized in antigravity and plasma research before reportedly unaliving herself in 2022. Her obituary describes a childhood passion for space and an impressive resume including “a double major in chemistry and biology, she became an interdisciplinarian and a master of electrical engineering, chemistry, physics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology.”
The Debrief quotes an industry insider who said, “The Alt Propulsion community is highly intersectional, and we’re sandwiched between the aerospace, defense, electrical engineering, physics, UFOs, and ‘frontier science’ cultures.”
Amy’s father Richard Eskridge, a retired NASA scientist himself, denied any links to the other missing and dead researchers saying “Scientists die also, just like other people.”
Be that as it may… two men who work in cutting edge scientific research have been gunned down at their own front doors since December.
Additionally, Adam Coleman writes, “Four officials with nuclear or rocket technology ties have now vanished in nearly identical fashion: walking away from their New Mexico homes on foot with minimal possessions. All are linked through overlapping facilities, including KCNSC, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Kirtland Air Force Base. That is not a coincidence. That is a signature.”
A person hears a word like “antigravity,” and thinks UFOs, UAPs if you’re staying hip. This is very sci-fi territory. American media trains people to dismiss subjects like this automatically. Some people hear UFO and say “oh please.” These people tend to feel the same about ghosts or anything paranormal. Everybody else just wants to know… What’s true? What’s suppressed?
Stories of inconvenient people like Karen Silkwood suddenly dying under suspicious circumstances are treated by the establishment as “UwU.” Vanity Fair’s article on the recent disappearances took the time to say that connecting these cases is just too far out to believe, pointing to “death-list fallacies.” But in the Epstein Age, after 50 years of post-Watergate cinema in the mold of Three Days of the Condor, Enemy of the State, or Captain America: The Winter Soldier, a government conspiracy honestly seems all too plausible.
Let’s return to something Amy Eskridge said about antigravity before her death, that antigravity has actually been “discovered” five times:
“It’s been independently discovered four other times. He said, he said it has been suppressed every single fucking time.”
How is that possible?
Even though antigravity is lumped in with aliens in the popular consciousness, top secret researchers have been seriously examining this phenomenon for at least 70 years. Defense analyst newsletter The War Zone says, “propellantless propulsion, and mass reduction technologies described in the Navy’s recent ‘UFO’ patents are at least based on more than 60 years of peer-reviewed research conducted and published by the likes of the American Institute of Physics, NASA, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the Air Force Research Laboratory.”
I read a book a few years back called The Hunt for Zero Point, which described how during World War 2 antigravity and nuclear research were happening in tandem. The book tells the story of Nazi antigravity specialists grabbed in Operation Paperclip, moved from German research facilities to American labs under cover of secrecy. From the book cover blurb: “The Hunt for Zero Point explores the scientific speculation that ‘zero point’ energy—a limitless source of potential power that may hold the key to defying and thereby controlling gravity—exists in the universe and can be replicated. The pressure to be the first nation to harness gravity is immense, as it means having the ability to build military planes of unlimited speed and range, along with the most deadly weaponry the world has ever seen.”
Top secret weaponry is obviously the headline reason why a government would keep antigravity research secret. But the logic goes much further.
Antigravity has huge implications as a potential power source. If antigravity can move objects at “unlimited speed and range” then it’s also possible to use it to move turbines and generate electricity, making combustion unnecessary. This would make antigravity an existential threat to fossil fuel, coal, and nuclear energy industries, a sector that makes up about 6 percent of US GDP, roughly $1.6 trillion a year, and employs about 3 million people. And that’s just one industry of many that could possibly be affected.
Antigravity could be perceived as a threat to American power projection as well. Oil is the entire basis for the current war in Iran (also military action in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Venezuela and more). Oil is the reason American military bases are placed where they are around the globe. The US military is the largest consumer of fossil fuels on earth, using approximately 100 million barrels of oil every year to power aircraft, ships, tanks, and other vehicles. The petrodollar is the reason American dollars are the world’s dominant reserve currency… for now.
If you consider these facts it’s possible to understand that maintaining oil dependence is how the US maintains hegemony. If oil goes away, so does the basis for American economic domination. Who knows what the balance of global power might look like if oil went away?
The US government sees itself as protecting “vital national security interests,” which includes protecting huge sectors of the economy from evaporating overnight. But the government also has a bias for protecting the existing class power structure. One drawback of having a money-driven political system is that people with money control government priorities. If people with money are threatened by top secret research, this makes the government more likely to protect the interests of those with money. The energy sector has a lot of money. It is not hard to imagine the government suppressing scientific research that threatens the existing power arrangement.
Of course wealth can project its own power as well.
There is a famous story about Nikola Tesla, long suspected of being the first to discover antigravity, and financier J.P. Morgan. Tesla had secured a $150,000 investment from Morgan to build Wardenclyffe Tower as an experimental radio transmitter. What Tesla failed to mention is that the tower could potentially transmit free electricity as well. When Morgan found out about Tesla’s free energy experiments he refused to invest any more money, reportedly saying “If anyone can draw on the power, where do we put the meter?”
Such is the nature of the capitalist system: If profits cannot be extracted it’s not worth doing.
The story of the missing and dead scientists calls to mind other inventors whose careers were mysteriously cut short.
There was Tom Ogle, a Texas mechanic who modified a 1970 Ford Galaxy so it could get 100 miles to the gallon. After allowing a thorough inspection and emptying the gas tank, he took a reporter from the El Paso Times on a ride to Deming, New Mexico and back on just two gallons of gas. In 1981 Ogle was shot in the stomach by an unknown assailant outside El Paso’s Starburst Lounge. A few months after that he was found dead in his home from an alleged overdose of alcohol and painkillers.
Then there’s Stanley Meyer, who claimed to have developed a car that could run on water. His invention has been mostly dismissed, but his death got even more attention than his invention. While at lunch with some investors in 1998, Meyer took a sip of cranberry juice, threw his hands to his neck, ran to the parking lot and collapsed, his last words to his twin brother, “they poisoned me.” The toxicology report found “no poison known to American science.” The coroner concluded that he died from natural causes.
One final example, Dr. Ning Li, another researcher studying antigravity, who claimed to have developed a prototype that could make a bowling ball float in midair. She vanished around 2002. The mystery of her seeming disappearance made her case internet famous.
Not to worry! A reporter from the Huntsville Business Journal tracked down her son, who says Dr. Li went dark because she was working for the Department of Defense. He said, “after she got her top secret clearance, she wasn’t allowed to share anything anymore with anyone. She became much quieter. She would return from work looking worn down with her makeup messed up. It wasn’t like that when she was at the University.” In 2014 Dr. Li was hit by a car and lived out her final 6 years with brain damage and Alzheimer’s. Nothing to see here, folks.
And so we return to Amy Eskridge and the 12 or so others who have recently died or disappeared. Eskridge, who talked openly about threats to her life because of her research, texted friend Franc Milburn shortly before her death, “If you see any report that I killed myself, I most definitely did not. If you see any report that I overdosed myself, I most definitely did not. If you see any report that I killed anyone else, I most definitely did not.” Millburn was quick to point out the threat Eskridge’s work posed to powerful economic players telling News Nation, “If you’re using, still, chemical rockets to go to the moon and you’ve got some young upstart scientist comes along and says, ‘Well, I’ve got a propulsion system that’s like much more efficient,’ then you’re going to lose a lot of money.”
Amy Eskridge’s death was ruled suicide without much investigation. Jessica Reed Kraus writes, “No police report, no coroner report, no toxicology results, no disclosed autopsy. She was cremated within days.”
American lawmakers have been quick to deflect suspicion for the disappearances onto hostile international actors. Congressman Eric Burlison (R-KY), sitting on the House Oversight Committee said, “I would not be surprised if our adversaries —China, Russia, Iran, or any other adversary—saw an opportunity to take out some of our nation’s top scientists, I would not be shocked.”
Personally, I would be shocked if another country were responsible. If anything, disruptive new technologies are a greater threat to domestic interests and domestic profits. It is not hard to imagine a company or a government taking steps to eliminate a scientist to protect profits or to protect the existing class power structure. A classic Roman expression comes to mind: Cui bono? Who benefits? Who benefits from keeping the oil economy? Who benefits from preventing massive, unpredictable technological change? Who benefits from the status quo? American companies, American power.
We have a myth in Western society that assumes scientific progress is basically linear and moves in one direction. But Western society is also capitalist. This means that if progress can be monetized - great! Top secret government research, paid for with US tax money, gave us Doppler radar, MRI machines, microchips, smartphones, GPS, the Internet… all passed off to private companies for private profit extraction. But what if antigravity or plasma research can’t be easily monetized? What if, like J.P. Morgan said, there’s nothing to attach a meter to? Would our government try to block true scientific progress forever?
What if the current focus on 13 missing and dead is just the tip of the iceberg? The Decrypted Matrix has a running list of 110 scientists who have died under suspicious circumstances since 1994. Or maybe it’s all just a big fat coinkidink.
Would the American government kill American scientists to protect American dominance? Many of us feel like we intuitively know the answer. This is because we can see how the government prioritizes class interests over the public interest. The US government takes its cues about the “national interest” directly from the billionaire class. If billionaires believe it is time to start making autonomous murder drones using shaky AI, suddenly the Pentagon is asking for a 24,000% increase in deadly robotic technology. This is done to protect class interests not the public interest.
If technology exists that could end dependency on oil that would be an unquestionable good for our ecosystem and the long term survival of our species. But under capitalism questions about humanity’s survival are secondary to power and profit. This makes capitalism a threat to humanity.
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