ALIEN SPIRITUALITY & THE MISSING SCIENTIST

I came across an article about a missing scientist who may have been working on project tying him to UAP activity. If you've been doing psychic work for any meaningful amount of time, you've run into them. Not always called the same thing. In some sessions they look exactly like every alien from every sci-fi movie you've ever seen. In others they show up as geometric light forms, insectoid intelligences, or beings that feel ancient in a way that doesn't map onto human time. In my ancestral cultures (and in most indigenous cultures on this continent, if you actually sit with the oral traditions), these beings aren't a surprise. They're not a revelation. They're part of the cosmological furniture. The idea that they showed up in 1947 when some debris crashed in New Mexico is a very government way of thinking about time.

What is new is this: a specific pattern of scientists and military personnel with direct ties to classified aerospace research have been going missing or turning up dead since mid-2024. Nine of them as of early 2026. And when I started pulling on that thread, I ended up somewhere I didn't fully expect.

Let's start with what actually got my attention.

The Reddit Post and the Metal Alloy

A while back, a post circulated on Reddit from someone claiming to be a molecular biologist who had worked on a national security contract studying what the program called "Exo-Biospheric Organisms," or EBOs. The post got enough traction in scientific circles that it wasn't easy to dismiss. (My husband has degrees in evolutionary biology, microbiology, and chemistry. He read it and did not immediately roll his eyes. That's a higher bar than you might think.)

The whistleblower described four incomplete bodies preserved at -80°C in a restricted basement laboratory. They described the genetics in detail: DNA-based, eukaryotic, sixteen circular chromosomes, a genome that was a chimera of known and unknown biological signatures. Artificially engineered. Disposable, by design.

And then there was a detail about what appeared to be artificial molecular machines in the tissue, potentially copper-based, that they hadn't been able to fully characterize.

Meanwhile, in the physical world of aerospace engineering, a scientist named Monica Reza had vanished on June 22, 2025 while hiking in Angeles National Forest. She had been 30 feet from her hiking companions. They looked back and she was gone. No body. No trace.

Monica Reza was the co-inventor of something called Mondaloy. A nickel-based superalloy engineered to survive the extreme heat of oxygen-rich rocket engines. A metal that behaves in ways conventional metallurgy couldn't previously achieve.

I sat with that for a minute. The Reddit whistleblower was describing bodies with an artificial metal-based system inside them. The missing scientist had spent her career engineering a revolutionary metal alloy.

If rocket engines need a specific alloy to handle long term space flight, and an engineered EBO needed to endure long term space flight, is it so farfetched that they both need some kind of metal alloy in their framework?

Who Actually Is Missing and Why It Matters

Nine people. Seven of them connected to the Air Force Research Laboratory or institutions it directly funds. Here's the short version:

Monica Reza invented the metal alloy that was solving America's dependency on Russian rocket engines. She vanished in California in June 2025.

Maj. General William Neil McCasland commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory from 2011 to 2013, overseeing $4.4 billion in classified aerospace research. He also served as the executive secretary of the Special Access Program Oversight Committee, which is the body with full visibility over every single classified Special Access Program in the entire Department of Defense. He was named in 2016 WikiLeaks emails as someone with "first-hand knowledge" of UAPs and crash retrieval programs. He vanished from his Albuquerque home on February 27, 2026, ten days after Trump announced he was ordering the release of all UAP-related government files. He left without his phone, his glasses, or his wearables.

Carl Grillmair was a Caltech astrophysicist who spent decades building the algorithms that process infrared telescope data... the same mathematical systems that track asteroids and hypersonic missiles. He was shot dead on his front porch on February 16, 2026. The man who shot him had his felony charges dismissed eleven days earlier.

Frank Maiwald spent 25 years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory building the actual satellite instruments (the hardware that gathers the infrared data Grillmair's algorithms process.) He died on July 4, 2024. No cause of death. No autopsy. NASA said nothing.

Nuno Loureiro directed MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center and was reportedly close to a breakthrough in clean plasma energy. He was shot at his home in December 2025.

Melissa Casias worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She vanished four days after Reza did. Both of her phones were found at home wiped clean via factory reset.

These aren't random people in random fields. Reza built the materials. Maiwald built the instruments. Grillmair wrote the code that reads what the instruments see. They were covering the build, launch, and detect layers of the same technology pipeline. That's not a coincidence cluster. That's a org chart. The scientists that came out of the Southern California aerospace corridor it seems like Reza built the engine material. Maiwald built the satellite instruments. Grillmair validated what those instruments see. They covered the build, launch, and detect layers of the same technology pipeline. With rocket engine materials. Infrared sensors. Plasma physics. Human performance science. Biodefense chemistry. Satellite instruments. These are not random fields. They are the exact scientific disciplines you would need to study, reverse-engineer, and eventually replicate technology that came from somewhere outside the bounds of known human engineering.

The Institution Behind All of It

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is the scientific backbone of American aerospace military research. It controls the entire Air Force science and technology budget, outsources about 75% of its work to contractors, and operates out of three primary locations: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, and the Southern California corridor around NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Every single one of the missing or dead scientists was connected to one of those three nodes.

The primary contractor threading through all of it is Battelle Memorial Institute, a nonprofit based in Columbus, Ohio that most people have never heard of. Battelle co-manages Los Alamos National Laboratory (where Casias worked). Battelle runs the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center at Fort Detrick in Maryland — the same Fort Detrick the Reddit whistleblower named as the location of the EBO research program. Battelle has active classified contracts with the exact AFRL divisions where the dead scientists worked.

And here's the part that I couldn't shake: in 1952, the United States Air Force hired Battelle under a classified contract called Project Stork to analyze 3,200 UAP case files. This was running parallel to the publicly known Project Blue Book investigation, also out of Wright-Patterson. The key document from this program was signed by someone with the title "Director of Exotic Metallurgy at Battelle Memorial Institute."

Director of Exotic Metallurgy. In 1952. At the same company that now runs the biodefense lab where an anonymous molecular biologist claims to have spent a decade studying the biology of non-human bodies. "Director of Exotic Metallurgy" seems like such an odd title choice. After investigating I could find titles like Director of Metallurgy, Director of Materials Engineering, Principal Metallurgist, or Head of Advanced Materials. "Exotic" suggests not of this world, IMO.

The General Who Knew Everything

McCasland is the clearest thread through all of this, and his disappearance is what really broke the story open.

In January 2016, musician Tom DeLonge (yes, that Tom DeLonge) emailed Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta, emails that ended up in the WikiLeaks dump mention McCasland. He wrote: "When Roswell crashed, they shipped it to the laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. General McCasland was in charge of that exact laboratory up to a couple years ago. He not only knows what I'm trying to achieve, he helped assemble my advisory team. He's a very important man."

That email was part of a broader documented effort to plan a coordinated government UAP disclosure, apparently with the assumption that Clinton would win the 2016 election. McCasland had been drafting a White House memo outlining how the reveal would be coordinated between the Defense Department, the Director of National Intelligence, and NOAA.

Trump won. The plan went nowhere.

In February 2026, Trump announced he was ordering the release of all UAP-related government files. Ten days later, McCasland was gone!

His wife issued a statement that specifically denied that he "has special knowledge about the ET bodies and debris from the Roswell crash stored at Wright-Patt."

She denied the knowledge. Not the existence of the material.

What Congress Actually Heard

In July 2023, David Grusch, a former Air Force intelligence officer who served on the Pentagon's UAP Task Force, testified under oath before a House subcommittee.

He said the United States government has operated a multi-decade crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program. He said non-human origin vehicles have been recovered. He said, in response to a direct question about whether the recovered biological material was human: "Non-human."

He also said that people had been harmed and killed to protect these programs.

Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett, who has been vocal about the pattern of missing scientists, said in March 2026: "Something dark is going on. I know these scientists and researchers. They have testified. We've got to get to the bottom of it. And by the way, I'm not suicidal."

That last sentence wasn't a joke. He literally said that.

What This Means for Those of Us Who Navigate This Space

Here's my actual take.

Daryl Anka has been claiming for decades that a being named Bashar has been telling him disclosure will happen, originally between 2025- 2032, and as we have gotten closer and closer to that date, the time narrows and becomes more specific. Currently the expected time is for sure, in 2027. (I have my own feelings about the channeling-as-entertainment economy, mainly because it does real harm to the credibility of people doing serious psychic work with people one-on-one and Anka has made a considerable amount of money from the masses. It also de-values cultures who integrate "channeling" as part of their culture which makes what is deeply respected into entertainment.) But the timing he's citing isn't actually that far off from what the documented record suggests, and my own psychic experiences. Even if I'm skeptical of how he got there.

The more interesting thing to me is what the whistleblower described about the beings' belief system. According to documents in the archive room he was reading through, these beings operate from a philosophy in which consciousness is a field property of the universe, not an individual one. Life is seeded, shaped, monitored, and influenced specifically to build the complexity of that field toward something they called an apotheosis. Their motivation isn't conquest. It's cultivation.

That framework is not far from what comes through in serious esoteric and animistic traditions. The idea that consciousness is something that moves through a web, that practitioners are navigators of a network rather than isolated operators, that the physical and non-physical are layers of the same system. It's not foreign to how I understand the node network model that underlies my own practice. In my own meditations and work with Belial and Hekate, I too have been introduced to beings whose interest in humanity reads more like a gardener than an invader. And to be honest for a long while I suspected Belial to be one of these, not what I view him as I do today, the physical embodiment of the universe. Additionally, how I view Hekate she falls into this as the "consciousness as a field property of the universe" narrative.

From my ancestral background, the idea that these beings have been here all along and what happened in 1947 is when the US government stumbled onto physical evidence of something that indigenous cultures have been in relationship with for millennia. This has never been "fringe" to us. That's just the oral record. The government's timeline of this story is the one that starts with their involvement. That's not the same thing as the story itself.

The Thread Isn't Finished

What I can tell you is that the institutional ecosystem I found when I started pulling on the missing scientists story is real and documented. The connections between Battelle, AFRL, Fort Detrick, the dead scientists, and 70 years of classified UAP programs can be traced through federal contracts, congressional testimony, patent filings, and FOIA records. None of this is speculation. The map is new. The bodies have always been there.

What happens when the dam actually breaks? whether from Trump's file orders, from the congressional investigations into the dead scientists, or from something else entirely. I genuinely don't know. But I'll say this: the people who were building the technology to detect these craft and study what was recovered from them are disappearing. That's not a good sign for a smooth disclosure.

And in the meantime, if you're doing the kind of work where you're meeting beings in the liminal spaces who feel ancient and intentional and have an interest in where humanity is going, stay grounded. Know your protocols. Know what you're actually encountering before you decide what it means.

That part of your practice doesn't change regardless of what the government eventually decides to tell us. If this is the kind of deep dive you're into, the full connection map I built while researching this post covers 80 years of UAP events, institutions, contractors, programmed and people. As always, keep what resonates with you, and discard what doesn't.

(Sources used in this post include congressional testimony (House Oversight Committee, July 2023), WikiLeaks Podesta email archive, FOIA-released federal contract records, and the Sentinel Network's investigative reporting on the missing scientists. The EBO Reddit post is anonymous and unverified. I've treated it as a thread worth tracing, not as established fact.)