Dead and missing scientists
The 2026 list of dead and missing scientists, and what checked out.
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The dead and missing scientists: where the list meets the record
The list that circulated in 2026 mixes solid cases with wrong names, but three clusters hold up. The first is AAWSAP: Sergey Macheret, the Skunk Works plasma physicist on the list, wrote one of the program's 38 DIRD reports, which PURSUE has now released. No coverage of the story mentions that link.
From an HHS meeting to war.gov
Robert Bigelow, whose company ran AAWSAP, met RFK Jr. in December 2025 and handed Trump seven reports in February 2026. Thirteen days later came the directive that led to war.gov/ufo. See the sequence. Kennedy's recovery-team story is secondhand, from unnamed veterans. The sequence continues with…
Calling the craft: Swann to Skywatcher
The government's own psychic work runs from Swann at SRI through Stargate to the psionic teams Jake Barber describes, which 'invite' craft to land before recovery. Skywatcher tried to do the same in the open, with Garry Nolan present in August 2024, and its base sat under the El Paso airspace…
Skinwalker Ranch: one patch of Utah, four owners, one Pentagon program
The Uinta Basin had a record before the ranch had a name. A Roosevelt science teacher, Junior Hicks, logged more than 400 sightings from 1951, and Frank Salisbury wrote the wave up in The Utah UFO Display with a Hynek foreword. In 1995 the Sherman family reported craft, orange "doorways" in the air…