The Trump administration is looking into reports of at least 10 American scientists who have either died or mysteriously disappeared since mid-2023, with many of them researching UFOs or nuclear power.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has stated that she has not yet spoken to other officials about the growing deaths, but the White House will look into the concerning pattern.
Among the scientists who disappeared was Steven Garcia, a government contractor who went missing on August 28, 2025, while working at the Kansas City National Security Campus in Albuquerque.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Frank Maiwald died without a public cause, and Los Alamos National Laboratory staffer Anthony Chavez mysteriously disappeared.
The 2023 death of Michael David Hicks, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, also triggered speculations that American scientists are being targeted.
Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) has urged the FBI to get involved, while Rep. Jared Moskowitz recently asked the Pentagon to 'come clean' on UFO data.
