Whitley Strieber's latest Substack connects murdered/disappeared scientists to PLASMA research.
Several scientists and military personnel working in plasma physics, advanced heat-resistant materials, magnetism, and related fields have been murdered or vanished recently, a troubling pattern highlighted by Strieber.
- Dr. Nuno Loureiro, director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, shot dead in December 2025 by a former classmate who then died by suicide.
- 1st Lt. Jaime Gustitus, Air Force Research Lab (711th Human Performance Wing), murdered in October 2025 in an incident involving a colleague who also killed his wife before dying by suicide. No clear motive released.
- Monica “Jacinto” Reza, materials scientist and inventor of the super-alloy Mondaloy (with ties to Air Force-funded rocket tech and the now-missing Gen. William McCasland), disappeared while hiking in June 2025. Never found.
- Melissa Casias, Los Alamos National Laboratory administrator, vanished in June 2025 near her workplace. Her phones were wiped; belongings left behind.
- Dr. Carl Grillmair, Caltech exoplanet researcher, shot dead in February 2026.
- William Neil McCasland, Former AFRL commander. Controlled billions in aerospace research budgets. Tied to the same programs funding Mondaloy. Vanished in February 2026.
Strieber suggests these incidents may not be random.
What ties it together is plasma.
There was a string of similar disappearances of prominent Chinese military scientists recently, too. We're whacking each other's scientists who are working on Plasma and metamaterials as we race for "sixth-gen" warplanes.
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