AUSPEX// UAP INTELLIGENCE
UNCLASSIFIED
MODULE 17
MISSING RESEARCHERS
UNDER FEDERAL REVIEW

The Documented Cluster

Twelve scientists, engineers, and researchers in aerospace, nuclear, plasma, and UAP-adjacent fields who have died or disappeared since 2022. Each case is presented with its official cause, primary reporting, and statistical context. The site does not assert a unifying explanation — only that the cluster is documented and federally reviewed.

TOTAL CASES
12
9 organizations
DECEASED
7
confirmed
MISSING
5
active investigations
WITHOUT CLEAR EXPLANATION
6
of 12 cases
FEDERAL REVIEW
ACTIVE
FBI · House Oversight
STATUS
EXPLAINED?
TAG
CASE FILES· 12 of 12
SOURCED · OFFICIAL CAUSE LISTED
FEDERAL RESPONSE
FBIINVESTIGATING
Spearheading effort to look for connections (April 2026)
House Oversight CommitteeINVESTIGATING
Opened investigation
Rep. James Comer (Chair)CONCERNED
Deaths/disappearances "unlikely to be a coincidence"
Rep. Eric Burlison (MO)CONCERNED
Requested FBI involvement; framed as UAP-adjacent
Rep. James WalkinshawSKEPTICAL
Skeptical of foreign-operation framing
NASASKEPTICAL
"Nothing related to NASA indicates a national security threat"
National Nuclear Security AdministrationINVESTIGATING
"Paying attention"
President Donald TrumpCONCERNED
Called it "pretty serious stuff" but "hopefully coincidental"
STATISTICAL CONTEXT

Among an estimated 700,000 top-secret-cleared aerospace and nuclear workers, an expected ~250 homicides and suicides would occur over a comparable 4-year window per population base rates.

The site presents this counterweight because credibility requires it. A cluster is interesting; a cluster that survives base-rate analysis is more so.

Mick West· Science writer
Among ~700,000 top-secret-cleared aerospace and nuclear workers, roughly 250 homicides and suicides over a 4-year window is the expected baseline rate.
Michael Shermer· Editor, Skeptic
"Mystery-mongering data mining" — finding patterns in random noise by ignoring base rates and the much larger pool of researchers who didn’t go missing.
Robert Bartholomew· Medical sociologist
Apophenia: the tendency to see meaningful links in unrelated events.