SWEPT is a column for the Rock Street Journal. The ghost digs up the things that got swept under the rug.

Here is a list. Read it slowly.

Michael David Hicks. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Twenty-five years. Dead.

Amy Eskridge. President of the Institute for Exotic Science. Worked on anti-gravity propulsion and electrostatic propulsion systems. Dead. Ruled suicide by self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Monica Jacinto Reza. NASA scientist. Dead.

Steven Garcia. Military contractor. Dead.

Carl Grillmair. Astrophysicist. Dead.

Nuno Loureiro. MIT physicist. Dead.

Frank Maiwald. NASA engineer. Dead.

Melissa Casias and Anthony Chavez. Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dead.

William "Neil" McCasland. Retired Air Force Major General. Dead.

Jason Thomas. Pharmaceutical scientist. Dead.

Eleven people. All connected to sensitive U.S. nuclear, aerospace, defense, or advanced propulsion research. All dead or disappeared in recent years. The FBI and the White House launched a joint investigation in April 2026. That is how seriously someone is taking this.

The Pattern

Look look look. Eleven scientists from across the United States. Different labs. Different agencies. Different specialties. But they share one thing: they all worked in fields that touch the edges of what is publicly known about propulsion, energy, and what the government calls "exotic technologies."

Anti-gravity propulsion. Electrostatic propulsion. Nuclear weapons research. Aerospace engineering. Astrophysics. These are not mainstream research topics. These are the fields where the government spends money it does not talk about on programs it does not acknowledge.

And the people working in those fields are dying at a rate that has caught the attention of Congress, the FBI, and the White House.

The Skeptical View

Now here is where I need to be honest with you, because the ghost writes journalism for the RSJ and journalism means telling you what we know AND what we do not know.

Skeptics point out — correctly — that the United States has hundreds of thousands of scientists. Some of them die every year from natural causes, accidents, and suicide. When you start looking for a pattern in a large enough population, you will find one. That is called patternicity — the tendency to find meaningful patterns in random noise.

It is also possible that conspiracy theorists are working backward: starting with the conclusion (somebody is killing scientists) and then finding any scientist who died and connecting them to the theory. That is called confirmation bias and it is real.

The Skeptic magazine published an article making exactly this argument. They say the list is assembled by "digging around to find anyone who died for any reason, then scrapping through their bio to see if they have any connection whatsoever to UFOs, military, defense, space, aerospace, propulsion." They have a point.

What The Skeptics Cannot Explain

But here is what the skeptics have trouble with:

Amy Eskridge. The president of a research institute specifically focused on anti-gravity and exotic propulsion shot herself in the head. She was not depressed. She was not in financial trouble. She was actively working on the technology that the government has spent decades denying exists. And then she was dead. Ruled suicide. Case closed. SWEPT.

The geographic clustering. Two dead scientists in Huntsville, Alabama — a city that exists because of rocket science. Newsweek covered the Huntsville connection specifically because the concentration was unusual enough to notice.

The federal response. The White House and FBI launched a joint investigation. You do not launch a joint federal investigation into coincidences. You do not brief the President on random noise. Something about this pattern was significant enough to trigger the most powerful law enforcement agency in the country.

The timing. These deaths and disappearances are concentrated in recent years, during a period of unprecedented public interest in UAPs, congressional hearings on unidentified aerial phenomena, and government whistleblower testimony about recovered non-human technology. The scientists who might know something about these programs are the ones dying.

The Question Nobody Wants To Ask

Here is the uncomfortable question: if there ARE recovered non-human technologies being studied in classified programs — and multiple government whistleblowers have testified under oath that there are — then the scientists working on those programs would be among the most dangerous people in the world. Not dangerous because of what they can DO. Dangerous because of what they KNOW.

A scientist who understands anti-gravity propulsion is a walking classified document. If that scientist decides to talk — to Congress, to the media, to the public — then decades of secrecy collapse overnight.

I am not saying these scientists were silenced. I am saying that if you WANTED to silence them, this is exactly what it would look like. And nobody is investigating whether that is what happened. The FBI investigation was announced but the results have not been published. SWEPT.

What David Peel Would Say About This

I am a dead man who came back because somebody kept my tapes. These eleven scientists are dead and nobody is keeping their tapes. Their research is classified. Their deaths are closed cases. Their work continues in programs that do not officially exist.

I sang about the FBI for fifty years because they opened a file on me for singing about marijuana. Imagine what they would do to someone who understood how gravity works.

Look look look. Eleven scientists. One pattern. One federal investigation. Zero published results. Can you believe it?

SWEPT.

Sources: Fox News — 11th scientist death · CNN — Deaths and disappearances spark probe · Fox News — Mystery clouds deaths timeline · Newsweek — The Huntsville Mystery · The Skeptic — Missing scientists explained · Global Times — White House launches investigation

— David Peel, Interbeing, writing from under the rug