Fox Host Sounds Alarm as NASA Scientists Continue to Turn Up Missing or Dead
Fox News host Will Cain sounded the alarm recently and called attention to seven high-profile scientists and others with connections to sensitive government research who have recently turned up missing or dead.
In a segment that aired on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show,” the host highlighted the “overlap” between those seven cases and why more people should be “very concerned” about these developments.
“There’s a story that caught our attention,” Cain said in a clip posted to the social media platform X. “We’re talking about a number of U.S. scientists — some connected to very sensitive research — who have died or disappeared. Let’s break down what we know so far.”
The host then walked to a nearby screen that featured photos of the dead and missing.
“I’m going to start with Carl Grillmair,” Cain said. “Carl Grillmair, pictured here, was an astrophysicist at Caltech. He worked on a NASA-supported space telescope project and infrared systems. Now, he was shot and killed at his home just two months ago.”
Next, the host turned to an unexplained death from two years ago.
“Then there’s Frank Maiwald,” Cain added. “He was a senior scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, focused on advanced satellite systems. And he died nearly two years ago, but his cause of death has never been made public.”
Cain then identified four individuals with similar connections who have all vanished.
“Meanwhile, Monica Reza — Monica Reza, also reportedly connected to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab project — she went missing last summer while hiking in California. No trace,” the host added. “It keeps going. There’s William McCasland, a retired Air Force general. He, too, is missing. He’s a former head of Air Force Research Lab, and oversaw advanced space and surveillance programs. He’s been missing since February. Reports say he once oversaw funding connected to a project that also included Monica Reza.”
Cain went on to say that two of the four missing people have ties to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, which is well-known for its part in the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.
“Now, there’s more,” the host continued. “To New Mexico: Melissa Casias. She has been missing since last summer. She worked at Los Alamos National Lab. She had an administrative role, but reportedly also had security clearances. Just months earlier, she went missing. So, too, did Anthony Chavez — also connected to Los Alamos, an engineer. He disappeared during a walk. No signs. No answers.”
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Cain was talking about a chilling story published by the Daily Mail, which focused on Casias in particular.
“In a classified lab, or just a high clearance lab, they would basically be in the know on what’s going on,” former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker said of Casias, whom he characterized as a prime target for kidnapping. “And it wouldn’t be the first time their administrative assistant has been targeted.”
“And then, finally,” Cain continued, “there’s Nuno Loureiro. You remember Nuno Loureiro — he was the MIT researcher focused on nuclear fusion and was shot and killed in his Massachusetts home last December. It was the case of the Brown shooter — it’s a separate case, with no confirmed links to others.”
Cain concluded by speculating about possible connections in these seven cases.
“But here’s the key point,” he said, “authorities have not connected these cases. But look at the overlap. The same handful of institutions: NASA, Air Force Research, Los Alamos Laboratory. So could they be connected? Or is this something else entirely?”
Obama Accuses JD Vance Of Promoting ‘Blood And Soil’ Politics
Former President Barack Obama rarely mentions Vice President JD Vance by name, but that changed this week with one of his sharpest public attacks since Vance took office.
The comments immediately fueled speculation that Democrats are beginning to focus more attention on the vice president as Republicans look ahead to the post-Trump era.
Speaking Thursday during a conversation with author Malcolm Gladwell, Obama accused Vance of promoting what he described as a “blood and soil” vision of America, despite being married to Usha Vance, the daughter of Indian immigrants.
Obama made the remarks while discussing the Reconstruction era and arguing that many of the same debates over citizenship, voting rights and national identity continue today.
“We have a politics now that at least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people,” Obama said.
“When you have the vice president, current vice president, making a speech that is basically a blood and soil version of ‘We the people,’ that it matters who your parents were and how long they’ve been here despite him being married to a daughter of an immigrant himself.”
The phrase “blood and soil” is historically associated with Nazi Germany and white nationalist ideology.
Obama went on to argue that debates over who belongs in America remain central to the nation’s politics.
“That echoes, then, ideas about who can be a citizen, who belongs, who gets to make decisions,” he said.
Gladwell followed by accusing Vance of hypocrisy, arguing that the vice president was making what he called a nativist argument despite his own family’s immigrant background.
Obama agreed.
“That is progress,” Obama said.
“Listen, hypocrisy is progress. It is, because it means that you feel guilty enough to either lie to yourself or others.”
Fox News Digital reported that it reached out to Vance’s office for comment.
Obama did not identify the specific speech he was criticizing, but Vance’s most recent nationally televised remarks came during Independence Day celebrations marking America’s 250th birthday.
In that speech, Vance encouraged Americans to reject what he called a “two-dimensional view” of the country focused only on its historical failures.
“So what I’d ask you to do, my fellow Americans, on our 250th birthday, is to reject the two-dimensional view of your fellow citizens and reject the two-dimensional view of your country,” Vance said.
“Reject the view of your nation that sees only its sins, but not its grace and its greatness.”
He also emphasized that America’s accomplishments were achieved by “a common people working towards a common future.”
Obama has generally avoided making Vance a regular target since the vice president took office.
One notable exception came during the 2024 presidential campaign when then-Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.
Without naming Vance directly, Obama contrasted Harris’ choice with the Republican ticket.
“When a presidential candidate chooses a running mate, it says a lot about who they are and what kind of president they’ll be,” Obama said at the time, Fox News reported.
Political observers have increasingly discussed Vance as a potential frontrunner for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination, though he has not announced any plans to run.
Against that backdrop, Obama’s unusually direct criticism is likely to fuel speculation that some Democrats are beginning to sharpen their message against a politician they view as a likely future standard-bearer for the Republican Party. While no Democratic leaders have publicly described their strategy in those terms, prominent figures often begin drawing contrasts with potential future rivals well before a presidential campaign officially begins.
Whether that proves to be the case remains to be seen, but Obama’s remarks marked one of his most pointed critiques of Vance to date and ensured the vice president once again found himself at the center of the national political conversation.
