• Joe Rogan Experience interview (2019)
• Joe Rogan Experience interview (2026)

Active-duty military personnel and veterans from the U.S. Air Force and Navy recounted their experiences with witnessing Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). The witnesses, who appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, also testified on the need for government transparency and increased protections for whistleblowers, described reports of other sightings of UAP, and shared how some had been retaliated against by government agencies for sharing their experiences. Also testifying was George Knapp, an investigative reporter from KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, who has investigated UAP for the past few decades.

Subcommittees of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee held a joint hearing on alleged government research of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs). Independent journalist Michael Shellenberger testified on an allegedly secret government program, "Immaculate Constellation," and he submitted a report by an anonymous whistleblower alleging that the Defense Department and intelligence community withheld evidence to the public about UAPs. Other witnesses included former Defense Department and NASA officials.

David Grusch, whistleblower and former Defense Department employee, testified alongside former military pilots about their firsthand accounts of UFOs or UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena). They appeared before a House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee. Topics included threats to national security, government transparency around UAPs, and reporting UAP encounters.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45996860

Our thoughts, prayers, and love goes out to any that were lost trying to bring us a better world. The pattern of hostility towards researchers and scientists needs to stop. This ongoing issue will be tracked here.

Deceased — Researchers, Scientists & Related Figures

#	Name	Date of Death	Notes	Source
1	Stanley Meyer	March 21, 1998	Inventor of water-powered car; died at restaurant, last words "they poisoned me"; ruled brain aneurysm	source
2	Stefan Marinov	July 15, 1997	Physicist; fell from EU Parliament building, Brussels	source
3	Floyd "Sparky" Sweet	~1995	Free energy (vacuum triode amplifier) researcher	source
4	Robert C. "Cliff" Duncan	2003	DoD/NASA engineer; NAE member	source
5	Mark McCandlish	April 13, 2021	UFO/ARV researcher; ruled suicide (shotgun); was scheduled to testify at Senate UAP hearing	source
6	Ning Li	July 27, 2021	Physicist; superconductivity / anti-gravity research	source
7	Amy Eskridge	2022	Co-founder, Institute for Exotic Science, Huntsville AL; family cites chronic pain	source
8	Michael Hicks	July 30, 2023	NASA JPL physicist (comets & asteroids); cause of death undisclosed	source
9	Matthew Sullivan	2024	USAF intelligence officer; died before testifying in federal UFO whistleblower case; reported suicide	source
10	Frank Maiwald	July 4, 2024	NASA JPL space research specialist; died age 61, LA; cause not made public	source
11	Matthew Livelsberger	January 1, 2025	US Army Special Forces soldier; died in Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Trump International Hotel, Las Vegas	source
12	Joshua LeBlanc	July 22, 2025	NASA Marshall Space Flight Center electrical engineer (nuclear propulsion); body found in burned Tesla, Huntsville AL	source
13	Nuno Loureiro	December 2025	MIT professor; director, Plasma Science & Fusion Center; fatally shot at home near Boston by former classmate	source
14	Feng Yanghe	Unknown	Chinese scientist; part of broader pattern reported by Newsweek	source
15	Jason Thomas	Body recovered March 17, 2026	Novartis scientist; disappeared December 12, 2025; body found in Lake Quannapowitt, MA; no foul play suspected	source
16	Carl Grillmair	February 16, 2026	Caltech/IPAC astrophysicist; fatally shot on front porch of LA County home; suspect arrested	source
17	Andrew Moffatt	~April 13–17, 2026	UAH research engineer (RSESC); died in private plane crash returning from family funeral	source
18	Wynn Free	~April 14–18, 2026 (disputed)	Author; co-wrote The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce with Wilcock; exact date/cause unconfirmed	source
19	David Wilcock	April 20, 2026	UFO author, History Channel Ancient Aliens; died by suicide; family cites depression and financial debt	source

Missing — Researchers & Related Figures

#	Name	Date Last Seen	Notes	Source
1	Anthony Chavez	May 2025	Age 78; retired Los Alamos National Laboratory foreman; Los Alamos police investigating; no foul play indicated	source
2	Melissa Casias	June 2025	Age 53; Los Alamos administrative employee; last seen on highway near Talpa, NM; phone factory-reset before disappearance	source
3	Monica Reza	June 22, 2025	Age 60; NASA JPL aerospace engineer (director, Materials Processing Group); disappeared hiking near Mt. Waterman, Angeles National Forest	source
4	Steven Garcia	August 2025	Age 48; property custodian, NNSA Kansas City National Security Campus (Albuquerque); missing; no body found	source
5	William Neil McCasland	February 27, 2026	Retired Air Force Major General, age 68; commanded AFRL at Wright-Patterson AFB; walked out of Albuquerque home leaving phone, glasses, and wearables behind; FBI involved	source

If you know anything that can lead to justice for these missing researchers please submit a tip to a trusted legislator or the FBI at https://tips.fbi.gov/home.