A NUCLEAR chief has said investigators looking into the disappearances of 11 space scientists will uncover “crazy stuff” about the cases.
Eleven people working close to US space programmes have died or gone missing recently, sparking serious concern.
US President Donald Trump called the deaths “pretty serious stuff”, but added that they were “hopefully a coincidence”.
He said he would aim to provide answers “in the next week and a half” after he left a top secret meeting on the topic.
Frank Rose, former No. 2 at the National Nuclear Security Administration told the New York Post that nothing surprises him anymore.
He admitted that “crazy stuff happens all the time”, adding: “Every day something went wrong, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
“This is a cross section of America and the people in the NNSA complex have all the good qualities, bad qualities and questionable qualities that you’ll find across the American population.”
Among the 11 people includes powerful space researchers from retired Air Force major generals to workers who helped deflect asteroids from hitting Earth.
NASA, Los Alamos, MIT and Caltech employees are all among the mystery cases.
The latest person to be identified is Amy Eskridge, 34, who allegedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head in Huntsville, Alabama on June 11, 2022.
Rose said he didn’t think the deaths were connected, given the NNSA’s huge 60,000-person workforce.
But he said: “It wouldn’t surprise me if you look into each of these individual cases, there’s probably something more once you dig into it.”
The scientist said the incidents will be examined by top nuke bosses, adding: “This would go right to the administrator and the deputy administrator.
“They don’t sweep stuff like this under the rug.
“NNSA and the National Security Laboratory complex is a huge foreign intelligence target, but again, I have not seen any evidence that, you know, the deaths, when I was there, were connected in any way with a foreign intelligence organization.”
And physicist and science communicator Michio Kaku warned that the deaths should be treated as a national security issue.
He told Fox News Digital: “If 10 scientists suddenly die or vanish who all have access to sensitive research, this is cause for national concern.”
Missouri Republican Eric Burlison said: “This is too coincidental, and so we have to be investigating this.
“We need to have our nation’s top investigators, the FBI and every agency looking into this matter.”
The White House is reviewing the cases.
Before Amy Eskridge’s death, she had been investigating and helping to develop anti-gravity technology.
Public details of an official investigation into her suicide have never been released – sparking questions over why she took her own life.
Conspiracy theories around her death have ramped up in recent days after an unearthed interview saw her voice grave concerns over the consequences of her job.
Amy’s dad, Richard, was a retired NASA engineer and the pair founded The Institute for Exotic Science.
The most publicised death saw MIT professor of physics Nuno Loureiro, 47, shot dead in his own home in Brookline, Massachusetts.
He was assassinated on December 15, 2025 as officials pinned the blame on gunman Claudio Neves Valente, a former classmate from Portugal.
Valente was also accused of carrying out a shooting at Brown University just two days earlier.
Caltech astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, 67, was also gunned down in an unprovoked attack at his home in California on February 16, 2026.
Jason Thomas, a pharmaceutical researcher testing cancer treatments at Novartis, died after being found face down in a lake in March.
NASA scientists Michael David Hicks and Frank Maiwald both died from unknown circumstances.
Several other space scientists remain missing across the US and are feared dead.
The most high profile is retired Air Force general William Neil McCasland, 68.
He vanished during a New Mexico hike on February 27, 2026, with sources close to McCasland saying he was a “gatekeeper and participant” in the UFO community, the New York Post reports.
His former colleague and Aerojet Rocketdyne material scientist Monica Reza, 60, went missing in June 2025 after also going on a hike.
The pair had worked together on a rocket project overseen by McCasland years earlier.
