Person · Huntsville, AL

Amy Catherine Eskridge
- Who: chemist and entrepreneur who co-founded the Institute for Exotic Science in Huntsville with her father, a retired NASA Marshall engineer, to pursue and disclose antigravity technology.
- Her own words: in 2021 and 2022 she said she was stalked, threatened and hit with a directed-energy weapon, and texted a friend: "If you see any report that I killed myself, I most definitely did not."
- What happened: she died in Huntsville on 11 Jun 2022, aged 34, of a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police and medical examiner reports are not public; her father says "nothing suspicious".
- Why it matters: her case is the source of the directed-energy strand of the missing-scientists theory. Franc Milburn's murder claim reached Congress in Shellenberger's 2024 testimony.
Antigravity entrepreneur, IES. Chemist and entrepreneur who co-founded the Institute for Exotic Science in Huntsville with her father, a retired NASA Marshall engineer, to pursue and disclose antigravity technology. In 2021 and 2022 she said she was being stalked, threatened and hit with a directed-energy weapon, and she texted a friend that any report of her suicide would be false. She died in Huntsville on 11 Jun 2022, aged 34. Her case is the source of the directed-energy strand of the theory.
On the record
- Died 11 Jun 2022.
- List check (the press lists): entry checks out. 'Scientist' is generous: a chemist and entrepreneur with no peer-reviewed physics found. One source gives 15 Jun 2022.
- As the list had it: "Added by the Daily Mail, Mar 2026, giving the theory its other name, the 'Eskridge Conspiracy': Amy Eskridge, Huntsville antigravity researcher and co-founder of the Institute for Exotic Science, died 2022."
- Cause or status, as sourced: Self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, as reported by the Daily Mail and Fox. The Wikipedia table says police ruled it a suicide. Police and medical examiner reports have not been published. Her father: 'nothing suspicious'. Directed-energy attack or murder: claimed (her own texts; Franc Milburn), not demonstrated.
- Obituary: died 11 Jun 2022, aged 34. No cause given.
- Her 2018 slides cover Ning Li and Doug Torr's 'AC Gravity', ask 'What happened to Ning Li?', and conclude 'Promising results always disappear into the classified realm.'
- Shellenberger's written testimony to House Oversight, 13 Nov 2024, Appendix C: Milburn 'claims she was targeted with directed energy weapons and murdered by a private aerospace company'.
- Father Richard Eskridge to NewsNation: 'nothing suspicious'; 'Scientists die also, just like other people.'
- Newsweek found no personal or professional tie to Joshua LeBlanc.
- Reported cause is a self-inflicted gunshot wound; police and medical examiner reports not released.
Claims (9)
She was targeted with a directed-energy weapon.firsthandSourced, unconfirmed
'If you see any report that I killed myself, I most definitely did not.'firsthandSourced, unconfirmed
She got daily death threats 'for my most recent work' and was followed by a stalker who changed his plates.secondhandSourced, unconfirmed
She was murdered by a 'private aerospace company' because of her UAP and propulsion work.speculationSourced, unconfirmed
Huntsville hosts a black antigravity program once run by Ning Li, and foreign agents harass and even poison scientists around it.anonymousSourced, unconfirmed
Havana Syndrome.speculationSourced, unconfirmed
A directed-energy weapon 'can't be ruled out'; the idea 'isn't as far-fetched as some may think'.analysisSourced, unconfirmed
Suicide linked to chronic pain and distress.analysisSourced, unconfirmed
Luis Elizondo had dinner with her, her father and a group including AATIP members in Huntsville in 2018; they said they had built a working anti-gravity device and could demonstrate it, a demonstration was set for him the following month, and she said she was being harassed and feared for her safety.Amy Catherine EskridgeLuis Elizondothread/scientistsLuis Elizondo on MILABs, the missing scientists and StargatefirsthandSourced, unconfirmedLuis Elizondo
Cases (1)
Connected
Directed energy (lasers and high-power microwaves) fieldGravity and antigravity research fieldQuantum sensing, computing and the quantum vacuum fieldInstitute for Exotic Science / HoloChron LLC orgNASA orgNASA Marshall Space Flight Center orgRedstone Arsenal (Army AMCOM, MDA, NASA Marshall host) orgTo The Stars Academy orgUniversity of Alabama in Huntsville orgWright-Patterson AFB & 'Hangar 18' orgJoshua K. LeBlanc personLuis Elizondo personMatthew James Sullivan personMaj. Gen. William "Neil" McCasland personDr. Ning Li personDr. Nuno F. G. Loureiro personDr. Sergey O. Macheret person
Sources
- Arab Tribune obituary
- Her HAL5 slides, Dec 2018
- Shellenberger testimony, Nov 2024
- Newsweek, Apr 2026
- IBTimes UK, Apr 2026
- NewsNation, her father
- NewsNation, directed energy
- Hack Liberty compilation
- Jillian Michaels, "What Trump's Files Are About To Expose About UAPs & Nonhuman Observers" with Luis Elizondo (Keeping It Real, YouTube, c. May 2026)