Missing Scientists

Missing Scientists podcast cover art — embroidered magnifying glass with a watching eye on pine green cloth

Eleven names.
Eleven scientists.
Vanished or dead.

Episode 01

William Neil McCasland

Eight weeks ago, a retired Air Force general walked out of his Albuquerque home and vanished.

The President has weighed in. The House Oversight Committee is investigating. He's the first name on a list that has since grown to eleven.

He planned not to be found.
Planned by whom?

Across the United States, in the last three and a half years, at least eleven scientists, engineers, and contractors connected to classified research have died or disappeared. A retired Air Force general. A NASA aerospace engineer. An MIT plasma physicist. A Caltech astrophysicist. A Los Alamos administrator. The list is incomplete. The pattern, if it is a pattern, has not been confirmed.

The President has been briefed. The House Oversight Committee has begun an investigation. Theories run from foreign intelligence to domestic operations to legacy classified programs the public has never heard of. Missing Scientists is the show following all of them in daylight, testing what's actually provable.

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