Top Republican Says 11 Dead, Missing US Scientists ‘National Security Threat’

In the same interview, she discussed the increasing pressure surrounding her work. “I have to publish because it’s only going to get worse until I publish,” she said, adding that the situation was “getting more and more aggressive.”

In her presentations and interviews, Eskridge noted that researchers working on unconventional technologies might experience pressure to remove their work from the public domain. She described a pattern where scientists who reported breakthroughs would “disappear” from public projects or cease publishing their findings.

Fox noted that Eskridge’s death is being cited alongside cases involving McCasland, NASA scientist Monica Jacinto Reza, contractor Steven Garcia, astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist Nuno Loureiro, NASA engineer Frank Maiwald, Los Alamos–linked employees Melissa Casias and Anthony Chavez, NASA researcher Michael David Hicks and pharmaceutical scientist Jason Thomas.