Fbi Will Look For Connections To Deaths And Disappearances Of Scientists

His agency didn’t instantly respond to a connection from NBC News.

McCasland, according to nan Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office, had donned hiking boots and appeared to person taken his wallet and a .38 caliber revolver pinch a leather holster earlier he took off. He near down his telephone and glasses.

It wasn’t agelong earlier investigators began proceeding speculation that McCasland’s disappearance mightiness person someway been tied to his erstwhile job.

McCasland’s wife, Susan McCasland Wilkerson, addressed that speculation straight successful a Facebook post.

“He retired from nan [Air Force] almost 13 years agone and has had only very commonly held clearances since,” she wrote. “It seems rather improbable that he was taken to extract very dated secrets from him.”

Wilkerson, and nan sheriff’s department, besides batted-down speculation fanned by conspiracy theorists that McCasland’s disappearance had thing to do pinch UFOs.

McCasland had erstwhile volunteered to activity pinch “To The Stars,” an outfit led by “Blink-182” frontman Tom DeLonge that has published books and released euphony and a docuseries related to aliens and unidentified flying objects.

Wilkerson said McCasland has nary typical UFO knowledge. “This relationship is not a logic for personification to abduct Neil,” she wrote.

Another lawsuit that fueled speculation was nan disappearance of Monica Reza, a 60-year-old erstwhile NASA intelligence and rocket materials master who was reported missing June 22, 2025, while hiking successful nan Angeles National Forest. That missing person’s lawsuit is being investigated by nan Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and remains unsolved.

Reza worked pinch McCasland but much than a decade ago.

The aforesaid agency besides investigated nan decease of renowned Caltech intelligence Carl Johann Grillmair, who was fatally changeable connected Feb. 16. A fishy has been arrested who had a anterior apprehension for alleged intentional discharge of a firearm but nary motive has been released, which only added tinder to nan theories. The 29-year-old fishy is being held pending an arraignment that was postponed until nan extremity of April.

The oldest of nan cases that has churned-up questions appears to beryllium that of Alabama-based anti-gravity interrogator Amy Catherine Eskridge, whose decease astatine property 34 successful 2022 was ruled a suicide.

Online theorists besides tried to nexus a lawsuit that appears to person already been solved, nan sidesplitting of 47-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics professor Nuno Loureiro.

Loureiro was gunned down successful December by suspected Brown University wide shooter Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, constabulary person said, who 2 days later opened occurrence astatine Brown University. Neves Valente died by suicide.

The Department of Justice has not divulged a motive for why Neves Valente targeted Brown University, wherever he had been a postgraduate student, aliases Loureiro. Both Loureiro and Neves Valente were from Portugal.