Nancy Loo - Are Missing Scientists A Coincidence?

A growing number of deaths and disappearances involving scientists tied to U.S. nuclear and aerospace programs is raising serious questions. Officials say it may be coincidence but the pattern has some wondering if there’s more beneath the surface.

Nancy Loo, National Correspondent for NewsNation, joins the program to break down what’s known, what’s still unclear, and whether this is something the public should be paying closer attention to.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

You know, welcome back to the program. One of the best things about having this program is that I don't have to be the smartest person in the room. I just have to know how to get the smart people into the room. And I want to tell you something. About a year ago, I first read some of the stories that started to wonder out loud where did all of these top scientists go? Right now, 10 scientists that have been tied to America's nuclear and aerospace programs are either dead or missing. Is it all just a giant coincidence, or is it something far more alarming than that? On that note, I want to welcome Nancy Liu, who's News Nation's national correspondent. Nancy, welcome back to the program. How are you?

SPEAKER_00 0:40

Thanks for having me, Lars. This is quite a mystery, and so many people are wondering.

SPEAKER_01 0:46

Does anybody have a great theory as to where these people have gone? Did they all do John Galt and they've all disappeared like an atlas shrugged or what?

SPEAKER_00 0:56

It's 10 people. It's possibly 11 now. There's now speculation about a suicide in 2022. But this has the attention of President Trump, who, you know, yesterday commented and said, you know, we are going to look into this. Hopefully, we'll have answers in a week, a week and a half. And today the White House, again, issuing a statement saying they are actively looking into this because so many people wonder it's, you know, 10 top scientists, it's too many to be a coincidence. But I mentioned this 11th case that people are wondering about.

SPEAKER_01 1:37

Is that Jason Thomas from December of last year?

SPEAKER_00 1:40

No, this is Amy Eskeridge from 2022. Uh her death was ruled a suicide. She's just 34 years old. Um, but you know, she died of a self-inflicted gunshot. But a lot of people have always questioned that because at the time she was expressing that her life was in danger because she was working on anti-gravity technology. She founded a research company called the Institute for Exotic Science, and she wanted a more public space for people to talk about developments in anti-gravity work. Um, and her father, who is alive, uh, he is a NASA engineer, retired astro uh NASA engineer. He's worked on all kinds of projects, um, and he did novel work on a system to propel spacecraft with high-speed plasmoids. And she worked closely. Oh, hold on, Nancy.

SPEAKER_01 2:43

High-speed what? Plasmoids?

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Plasmoids. Plasma. Remember, we heard about plasma as as the space capsule came back last Friday. So we've been hearing about plasma. Well, I did speak with Richard Esqueridge this morning. Um, he is saying that his daughter did commit suicide. She he doesn't find it suspicious. He doesn't think that she is linked to the ten missing and dead scientists. Um, but you know, she did work with, you know, secrets and, you know, technology linked to military defense, UFOs. So a lot of people are wondering, but you've mentioned all of the scientists missing or dead. Now, Richard Askridge said with Amy, scientists die also just like other people. So he doesn't think that her death is suspicious. But the ten papers, all kinds of conspiracy theor theories, they abound. Um, people want answers, especially when it comes to General William McCasland, because he's the so-called UFO gatekeeper. And he went missing mysteriously just two months ago. And that was months after, you know, someone who worked for him, Monica Reza.

SPEAKER_01 4:11

Monica Reza, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:13

She went missing during a hike, and she was an experienced hiker. So, and she was with friends who turned around and she was gone. So and there have been no remains found. She remains missing. It's an active case with the LA Sheriff's Department.

SPEAKER_01 4:33

So Well, and and Nancy, what's odd about that is look, I I used to do a lot of hiking as well, but if if you're with friends and they turn around and you're gone, they've they've at least narrowed down the place where you could have disappeared to a fairly small area. We're not talking about, well, he went hiking in this wilderness and he's somewhere in there or she's somewhere in there. She disappeared between the last time they saw her and then when they turned around and she was gone. And there also seems to be a real connection to JPL, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A lot of the disappearances link back to that, don't they?

SPEAKER_00 5:07

JPL, uh, Los Alamos, NASA, and you know, the friends that she was with that day, the in uh this is Angeles National Forest, they're also experienced hikers. So it certainly makes you wonder like how you know, experienced hikers this could suddenly happen. That's some somebody could just disappear. Um, but as I mentioned earlier, the president this has his attention. He's acknowledged this mystery, he wants a top-level review today, you know, the White House indicating that relevant agencies and the FBI are on it. Um we also reached out uh today to Republican Congressman Eric Burleson. He's been really actively pushing for answers to all of this. Um, and he sent us a statement and he said, you know, these are advanced scientists and researchers working on really critical national security stuff, and he finds it mysterious that they've disappeared.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

And and by the way, Nancy, one of the things I noticed is most of these are not terribly old. I mean, you've got uh you've got uh Michael Hicks, who's 59, but you've got a number of people who are these are not aging people. There's a 48-year-old Steve Garcia, the these are you know middle-aged people, right?

SPEAKER_00 6:29

Yeah, Monica Reza in her 60s and and quite vibrant and healthy. Uh so yeah, there's a lot to wonder about. So hopefully now that you know there's high-level attention on this, we'll get some answers. But it it could it all be a coincidence.

SPEAKER_01 6:48

I don't know. It sounds really strange to have all these people that all just seem to disappear. And one of them, Garcia especially, who left out of Albuquerque, the ABQ, and he was on foot, had a handgun. Yeah, and they said uh the police said they he may have been a danger to himself. Well, I don't know where that came from. But the bottom line is you'll wonder where all these scientists went. Nancy, thank you very much. We're gonna have Nancy Liu back from News Nation. She is one of their national correspondents for News Nation. And the question is ten scientists have died or disappeared. All of them have links to America's nuclear programs. They've raised questions about possible connections. And now President Trump has said he is interested in getting to the bottom of this and he wants to know what's going on. He expects to know more in about a week or a week and a half. He said he hopes the links between the cases are just a coincidence, but they could be something more. It's First Amendment Friday. Your calls are welcome at 866-A Lars. Send emails to talk at largelarsen.com and you're listening to the Radio Northwest Network.