00:00The passing of yet another NASA scientist has resurfaced as the list of
00:04chilling disappearances and mysterious deaths of those with ties to America's
00:08space and nuclear secrets grows longer. The disturbing cases have since sent
00:13internet sleuths into a frenzy, searching for answers about the
00:17unsettling pattern. Here's what to know. Michael David Hicks, who worked at NASA's
00:22Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Flintridge, California as a research assistant,
00:26passed away at the age of 59 in July of 2023. However, there's no public cause of
00:32death or autopsy for Hicks passing, nor any mention of how he died in his
00:36obituary, although it does ask for donations in his memory to go to
00:40Alcoholics Anonymous. Hicks's death is just one in a web of concerning deaths and
00:45disappearances of NASA scientists and individuals with ties to US space
00:50secrets. Three other scientists with ties to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab or JPL have
00:56either gone missing or died over the past few years, even as recently as
01:00February. On February 16th, 2026, renowned astrophysicist Carl Grillmayer, who
01:07worked on NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, was suddenly and shockingly shot dead on
01:12the porch of his home in California. His shooter, Freddy Snyder, was arrested and is
01:17currently in jail. However, a clear motive has yet to be established. Another
01:21researcher at NASA's JPL, Frank Mywald, died in July 2024 at the age of 61. Like
01:28Hicks, there's little to no public information about how he died. JPL's
01:33former newly appointed director of its materials processing group, Monica Reza,
01:38mysteriously went missing in June of 2025 while hiking with friends in the
01:42Angeles National Forest in California and hasn't been seen since. Reza's research in
01:48material science was funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright
01:52Patterson Base in Ohio, which is long rumored to hold extraterrestrial debris
01:56tied to the famous 1947 Roswell crash. The Air Force Research Lab was headed up by
02:02retired Air Force General William McCaslin, who also has shockingly gone
02:07missing. McCaslin mysteriously vanished on February 27th, 2026 from his Albuquerque, New
02:13Mexico home, along with a pair of hiking boots and a .38 caliber revolver. McCaslin
02:19was also the former research commander at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico,
02:23which works closely on national security projects with Los Alamos National
02:27Laboratory, famous for developing nuclear weapons during the Manhattan
02:31Project. In June of 2025, two workers from Los Alamos, Anthony Chavez and Melissa
02:38Casillas, vanished from their homes in eerily similar circumstances. Chavez, age 79,
02:44was last seen leaving his New Mexico home on foot, leaving behind his car, wallet,
02:49phone and keys. Casillas, age 54, was last seen on camera walking alone on a highway,
02:55also without her wallet, phone or keys, after telling family members she would be
02:59working from home, Dateline reported. As of now, no federal agency has publicly
03:04acknowledged any connection between these cases. But skeptics and believers alike are
03:09asking the same question. When does a pattern stop simply being a coincidence?
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