Megyn Kelly

Pure Talk.

The number of missing and dead scientists tied to sensitive U.S.

space-related research keeps rising, as a former assistant director at the FBI offers up a startling explanation.

According to the Daily Mail, 61-year-old NASA scientist Frank Mywald died in July 2024.

The cause of death never made public, though Mywald's obituary did not reference any known health issues.

Maiwald worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California since 1999 on projects related to advanced satellite technology.

Out of that lab, NASA running robotic space exploration missions and operating its Deep Space Network, tracking spacecrafts across solar systems, among other research projects.

Just 13 months before his death, Maiwald reportedly led a major breakthrough in the search for life on other planets.

Bywald working in the same lab as another missing scientist previously reported on by AM Update.

60-year-old Monica Reza worked as a materials scientist, inventing a new kind of metal used in rocket engines.

Reza reported missing in June of last year, her hiking companion saying she vanished from the trail at the Angeles National Forest in California.

Reyes' research, reportedly funded for years in part by the Air Force Research Laboratory overseen by 68-year-old retired Air Force Major General William Neal McCasland, also reported missing earlier this year after he walked out of his Albuquerque, New Mexico home in February, seemingly vanishing into thin air.

Throughout his career, McCasland overseeing advanced Air Force research programs, including leading its $2.2 billion science and technology lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where he's believed to have been tied to space weapons and alleged UFO research.

A former senior FBI official now warning these disappearances could be deliberate.

Chris Swecker, who previously led the Bureau's Criminal Investigative Division,

telling the Daily Mail the pattern could point to foreign espionage.

Swecker telling the outlet, quote, our scientists have been targeted for a long time, especially in the rocket propulsion area by hostile foreign intelligence services.

Swecker going on to say, quote, I think we've even seen instances where nuclear scientists have been assassinated.

Meantime, former Congressman Matt Gaetz making an extraordinary claim on the Benny Johnson show earlier this week,

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