ELEVENTH unexplained case - Scientist researching anti-gravity technology warned of danger before mysterious death at 34

By Faun Grey

Amy Eskridge Photo: Anomaly Archives

A researcher working on anti-gravity propulsion systems was discovered deceased at age 34 following warnings that her safety was compromised, adding to a disturbing pattern of mysterious deaths and vanishings in recent years.

Amy Eskridge was merely 34 years of age when she purportedly perished from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in Huntsville, Alabama on June 11, 2022. Yet neither law enforcement nor coroner's offices have publicly disclosed any information regarding an investigation ever being conducted.

Prior to her passing, she was actively investigating and attempting to engineer anti-gravity propulsion systems, a methodology to manipulate or neutralize gravitational forces, which could fundamentally transform space exploration and energy generation.

Anti-gravity propulsion has also been extensively examined by UFO investigators, who have asserted this sophisticated technology is what enables extraterrestrial craft to accomplish seemingly impossible velocities.

Conspiracy researchers have additionally maintained the US military has been conducting experiments with this technology for decades, though the government has refuted that alien technology is in their possession.

In 2020, Eskridge announced she was preparing to unveil groundbreaking foundational research concerning antigravity but required authorization from NASA.

Following her demise, startling revelations, including a rediscovered interview with Eskridge herself and independent analyses submitted to Congress have suggested that the death was not self-inflicted and was instead part of a sophisticated 'murder' conspiracy.

Eskridge's death represents the eleventh individual connected to America's aerospace or nuclear programs who has perished or mysteriously disappeared in recent years, placing US national security authorities on heightened alert.

Amy Eskridge was a researcher investigating anti-gravity propulsion before her passing in 2022 at age 34.

The researcher also revealed that she specifically established her research organization, The Institute for Exotic Science, to develop a 'public-facing persona to disclose anti-gravity technology.'

Eskridge stated during a podcast:

 "If you stick your neck out in public, at least someone notices if your head gets chopped off. If you stick your neck out in private... they will bury you, they will burn down your house while you're sleeping in your bed and it won't even make the news. That's why the institute exists," she cautioned.

Nevertheless, the Institute for Exotic Science has evidently shuttered since its co-founder's passing, and its website is no longer operational.

Archives of the organization's documentation and mission objectives have surfaced online, including comprehensive analyses of anti-gravity propulsion and photographs of purported UFO-inspired aerospace vehicles.

Eskridge had established the institute alongside her father, Richard Eskridge, a former NASA engineer who had specialized in plasma physics and fusion technology—an additional form of advanced propulsion methodology. He purportedly functioned as the laboratory's Chief Technology Officer.

During 2018, Eskridge and her father presented a comprehensive briefing on behalf of their enterprise, HoloChron Engineering, outlining both historical documentation and contemporary experiments connected to gravity modification, including purported classified programs allegedly developing triangular antigravity vehicles designated as the 'TR3B.'

Amy Eskridge served as the co-founder of The Institute for Exotic Science, collaborating with her father, former NASA scientist Richard Eskridge.

Based on documentation circulated online, the now-defunct research organization was actively developing anti-gravity technology they asserted had been implemented in UFO-inspired aerospace vehicles.

Eskridge participated in a 2020 podcast interview where she had outlined a comprehensive strategy for the public disclosure of UFOs and extraterrestrial phenomena, but expressed concern that the threats directed toward her were becoming increasingly severe.

Eskridge stated:

 "I need to disclose soon, man. I need to publish soon because it's like escalating. It's getting more and more aggressive. This has been going on for like four or five years, and over the past 12 months, it's been escalating, like more aggressive, more invasive digging through my underwear drawer and sexual threats."

Prior to her passing, Eskridge contacted retired British intelligence operative Franc Milburn for assistance investigating the incidents of harassment and intimidation she was purportedly experiencing, with Milburn ultimately determining that her death was not self-inflicted.

Both Eskridge and Milburn documented numerous occasions where she had been subjected to physical and psychological assaults, including an unidentified perpetrator discharging a "directed energy weapon" at her, producing burns across her body utilizing powerful microwave radiation.

Milburn's investigative conclusions were presented to Congress by independent researchers in 2023.

Journalist Michael Shellenberger testified during a public hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena that Eskridge was "murdered by a 'private aerospace company' in the US because she was involved in the UAP conversation."

Milburn stated on the fringe science radio program Coast to Coast AM:

 "Somebody was after her work. It was either one of two main objectives. One, trying to get her to desist from doing the work, and two, with these attacks, with the harassment, and the directed energy weapon attacks, to actually stop her, to debilitate her so she was unable to do the work."

Eskridge's case appears to perpetuate a disturbing pattern of deceased scientists who were investigating critical areas of technology or space exploration around the time they were murdered or discovered dead.

Since Eskridge's passing in 2022, five additional prominent researchers have perished, including two who were murdered in their own residences.

On December 15, 2025, Nuno Loureiro, 47, was fatally shot at his residence in Brookline, a Boston suburb. Law enforcement officials identified the perpetrator as Claudio Neves Valente, a former classmate from Portugal.

Nevertheless, a former FBI analyst and independent investigators have observed that Loureiro's groundbreaking contributions to nuclear fusion research may have rendered him a target within a broader conspiracy directed against American scientists.

Paralleling Eskridge's investigations into anti-gravity technology as a viable source for energy generation and interstellar travel, Loureiro's research concentrated on plasma physics—the examination of superheated, ionized gases—and their application to fusion energy, a promising sustainable power source.

A significant advancement in this domain could fundamentally disrupt the trillion-dollar fuel industry by diminishing demand for petroleum, natural gas, and coal, particularly for power generation and transportation. High-consumption facilities such as data centers could similarly transition to fusion for dependable, environmentally sustainable energy.

Another scientist was fatally shot in an unprovoked assault at his California residence. Astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, 67, was killed on February 16, 2026, after being shot on his front porch approximately 6am local time.

The scientist had contributed to the NEOWISE and NEO Surveyor projects, NASA's infrared telescope initiatives that monitor asteroids but utilize identical physics as military systems for tracking satellites and missiles.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department identified Freddy Snyder, 29, as a person of interest in Grillmair's homicide investigation and subsequently charged the individual with murder, carjacking and burglary.

Scientists Nuno Loureiro (left) and Carl Grillmair (right) were both murdered in their own residences after achieving significant progress in the fields of nuclear fusion and astrophysics.

Meanwhile, NASA scientists Michael David Hicks and Frank Maiwald, who both worked at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, died from undetermined circumstances at a relatively early age.

Maiwald, 61, was the principal researcher on a breakthrough that could assist future space missions in detecting definitive signs of life on other worlds just 13 months before his death in 2024.

Hicks, who passed away in 2023 just one year after departing JPL at age 59, had been involved with the DART Project, NASA's experimental program to determine if humans could deflect hazardous asteroids away from Earth.

NASA's JPL has not issued statements regarding the deaths of Maiwald or Hicks, and did not respond to the Daily Mail's inquiries into the nature of the scientists' work before their deaths.

In another mysterious incident, Jason Thomas, a pharmaceutical researcher testing cancer treatments at Novartis, was discovered dead in a Massachusetts lake on March 17, 2026, after disappearing without a trace three months earlier. Local police have claimed there was no foul play suspected.

Regarding those who vanished and remain unaccounted for, four disappearances have been linked to missing Air Force General William Neil McCasland, who purportedly possessed knowledge of classified government information concerning nuclear programs and UFO-related phenomena.

Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett informed WABC radio in New York that McCasland had served as the central figure in America's clandestine investigations into UFO and extraterrestrial technology prior to his departure from active service.

Burchett stated: "He's the individual who possessed extensive nuclear secrets. Multiple sources have informed me that he functioned as the gatekeeper for UFO-related information."

William Neil McCasland, 68, was last observed approximately 11am on February 27 near Quail Run Court NE in Albuquerque, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office.

The peculiar circumstances surrounding the general's disappearance on February 27 in New Mexico bore striking similarities to four missing person cases occurring between May and August 2025 throughout the Southwest region.

Nuclear research personnel Steven Garcia, Anthony Chavez, and Melissa Casias, along with NASA scientist Monica Reza, have all been connected to McCasland through his oversight responsibilities at the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL).

AFRL maintains its headquarters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which has been speculated to investigate extraterrestrial technology since the 1947 Roswell UFO incident.

During his tenure at Wright-Patterson, McCasland supervised and allegedly authorized funding for Reza's research on an advanced aerospace metal for rocket propulsion systems called Mondaloy.

Reza, 60, vanished while hiking with companions in California on June 22, 2025. She had recently assumed the position of director for the Materials Processing Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The three additional disappearances all involved personnel at some of America's most critical nuclear installations, and all three were last seen departing their residences without their mobile phones or keys, mirroring McCasland's circumstances.

An anonymous source informed the Daily Mail that McCasland also supervised research operations at New Mexico's Kirtland Air Force Base throughout his career, which collaborates extensively with the nation's nuclear laboratories on national security initiatives.

"That entire operation is coordinated through Kirtland Air Force Base. A substantial portion of it, including the technology development and production of the technology they utilize, is all manufactured in Albuquerque. So McCasland would have absolutely known about and visited these facilities," the source disclosed.