The issue of our missing or killed scientists is growing more concerning still. While, at first, many wrote these concerns off as just another conspiracy theory, it’s looking now like it may be more than that. On Sunday, the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Republican Representative James Comer (KY-01) appeared on the Fox & Friends weekend show to express his growing concern.
F&F EXCLUSIVE: House Oversight demands briefings from DOE, DoD, NASA & FBI after up to 11 cleared scientists are reported dead or missing — as President Trump teases upcoming release of “interesting” UFO files. | @JamesComer weighs in. pic.twitter.com/wHd7NkLdHH
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) April 19, 2026
Rep. Comer said:
We’re very concerned about this. This is a national security concern. This would suggest that something sinister may be happening. So we want to see what we can do and hopefully with our bully pulpit, we can maybe bring attention to this, and have anyone that knows of any information out there, have them contact Congress so we can help determine what’s going on here, and prevent this from happening in the future.
An article on the Fox News website has more details from Rep: Comer.
“We’ve put a notice out to the Department of War, to the FBI, to NASA, to the Department of Energy, that we want to know everything that they know about what happened with these scientists, because those four agencies were predominantly the agencies that those 11 individuals were affiliated with. And we want to try to piece this together.”
Comer plans to bring the leaders of these offices before Congress, but said he sent the letters first to allow them time to ensure their testimony would not compromise any potentially classified investigations.
The key here is the national security aspect. The people who have been killed or disappeared would all seem to be some of our foremost experts in their fields, which include physics, most notably astrophysics and planetary science, aerospace engineering, nuclear physics and fusion energy, nuclear weapons, and advanced materials research. These are people working on the cutting edge. Any unfriendly power, and there are a number of possible culprits, might seek to remove these people from the board, or to capture them to further their own research. It’s a safe bet that’s what Rep. Comer is concerned about.
Last Thursday, RedState’s own Jennifer Van Laar brought us a comprehensive list of the deceased and missing scientists. Jennifer writes:
Almost all of the scientists involved either worked directly for the U.S. government or on government-funded programs related to nuclear energy, aerospace, or UFOs, working at places like Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
This is becoming a matter of very real concern; there’s an awful lot of smoke here for there not to be a fire in there somewhere.
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President Trump is worried, too.
The Trump administration is looking into reports that at least 10 American scientists, many of whom were researching UFOs or nuclear power, have either died or mysteriously disappeared since mid-2023.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Wednesday that she hadn’t spoken to the other officials about the growing deaths, but the White House would look into the troubling pattern.
Sometimes patterns aren’t really there. Our brains are, after all, in large part big pattern-recognition systems, which is why we see dragons in the clouds on summer afternoons. But this is starting to grow worrisome. It’s looking more and more like something suspicious is going on, that someone or someones are working at taking some of these top scientists out of the picture. Is it aliens? Almost certainly not. If something is going on, the trouble almost certainly lies much closer to home, and remember, we just had four years of wide-open borders and non-enforcement of immigration law, during which time any number of people from any number of unfriendly nations may have entered the United States.
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