Missing Scientists

In June 2025, a NASA materials scientist who helped invent an alloy critical to American rocket engines went hiking with two friends near Mount Waterman and vanished thirty feet behind them. In February 2026, a retired two-star general who once commanded the Air Force's primary research laboratory walked out of his Albuquerque home on foot and never came back.

The account, widely attributed to McCasland by independent investigators, posted thousands of times about electric field propulsion, plasma physics, and what the account described as the operating principles of classified transmedium vehicles. Then, in late July 2026, years of posts began disappearing from the account. In August 2026, a Reddit researcher found a name that should not have been there.

Every news article called her a 37-year-old bipolar Buddhist musician. None of them mentioned Sandia National Laboratories. None mentioned quantum computing. None mentioned the NNSA report with her name in it, published seven months before she vanished. On October 15, 2023, Ingrid Coleen Lane disappeared in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. Her abandoned car was found on a remote forest road near the Valles Caldera, with a boulder through the rear window...

The remains of Melissa Casias, LANL employee and subject of our Limitations on Nature series, were discovered in Carson National Forest almost a year after she vanished. Her family says the area had already been searched. No cause of death has been determined.