UFOs, Whistleblowers and Mysterious Deaths

[Rick Robson]

You let me know how it was!
I wasn't planning on watching it, but if test subjects think it's worth it, I might reconsider.

Okay man!

 

[NorCal Dave]

I'm not suggesting there is / was a conspiracy to kidnap UFO scientists. Mick had considered the distribution of deaths earlier, so the current conclusion is that the stats don't back it up, correct? Comer is now heading a House committee to look into it:

The whole thing is getting weird. Look at who they include in this blurb:

Chavez retired almost 10 years ago. Casias was an Administrative Assistant. Thomas was a cancer researcher at Novartis. And everyone is now jumping on the Eskridge case, even though she took her own life nearly 4 years ago.

I'm not trying to be crass or insensitive, but I think the inclusion of Eskridge is telling about this whole story. Her videos are difficult to watch, she seems to be agitated and somewhat unhinged. She has no filter as she drops F-bombs more than guys on a construction site, and her claims are completely un-evidenced. That is, she makes for good content. Including her works both ways. She is a brilliant iconoclast that has been silenced by the powers that be, or one is unfortunately watching a train-wreck go off the rails, either one is seen as compelling.

They're just making a story out of nothing. The video claims they were all working on high level space or nuclear programs:

No. They were not. As noted, Thomas was a cancer researcher and had zero to do with space, nuclear or UFOs. Garcia MAY have worked at a facility that makes the "non-nuclear parts" of nuclear weapons, so he may have been a factory worker. Nobody knows what Chavez did at LANL, other than he stopped doing it 10 years ago.

Again, not trying to be insensitive or morbid, but several of these cases, including Garcia and McCasland involved individuals going off alone with hand guns in New Mexico. Unfortunately, New Mexico has a high rate of suicide (bold by me):

Suicidal behaviors are a serious public health problem and a major cause of morbidity and mortality in New Mexico. In 2018, suicide was the ninth leading cause of death in NM, the second leading cause of death by age group for persons 5-34 years of age and the fourth leading cause of death by age group for persons 35-44 years of age.

Suicide deaths have been increasing in both New Mexico and the United States, with suicide death rates in NM at least 50% higher than U.S. rates over the past 20 years.

https://ibis.doh.nm.gov/indicator/view/SuicDeath.Cnty.html

The US national rate has been around 14 per 100,000 for the last nember of years:

https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/data.html

While Bernalillo county, which includes Albuquerque, LANL and Kirtland AFB, is not quite double the US rate:

Just saying that maybe they should be looking at known things before developing new conspiracy theories.

 

[Todd Feinman]

Yes, I also tried to watch a bit of Eskridge, and she seemed to be extremely agitated. I'm not suggesting she had a particular issue or disorder, and perhaps she was just extremely stressed. I was reminded of the symptoms I've read about in certain manuals. I've had conversations with individuals that remind me of her videos. They occurred at parties..

 

[Rick Robson]

Yes, I also tried to watch a bit of Eskridge, and she seemed to be extremely agitated. I'm not suggesting she had a particular issue or disorder, and perhaps she was just extremely stressed. I was reminded of the symptoms I've read about in certain manuals. I've had conversations with individuals that remind me of her videos. They occurred at parties..

Does hypomania (and consequently BD type II -- BDII), has commonly been more frequently associated with female gender?

 

[Todd Feinman]

Does hypomania (and consequently BD type II -- BDII), has commonly been more frequently associated with female gender?

It might be. We could look it up.
<edit> yeppers.

 

[JMartJr]

It might be. We could look it up.
<edit> yeppers.

Tat' the sort of post that a citation would have benefited! ^_^

 

[Todd Feinman]

Tat' the sort of post that a citation would have benefited! ^_^

It is more frequently diagnosed, but there might be some controversy there. I just didn't want to pursue trying to diagnose her with any specific disorder, publicly. Though Google AI and probably Scholar, with sources from PubMed can help, as we know.

 

[Mick West]

Yeah, please avoid trying to diagnose people on the internet with limited information. Especially dead people.

 

[Rick Robson]

It is more frequently diagnosed, but there might be some controversy there. I just didn't want to pursue trying to diagnose her with any specific disorder, publicly. Though Google AI and probably Scholar, with sources from PubMed can help, as we know.

I didn't realise you had already edited it out, sorry. I had been watching some of Amy's allegedly close friends -- last one Courtney Marchesani (on the link below, min. 52:41) telling the interviewer not being aware of any sort of medical history neither any actually concerning health issues before her death. Anyway, since no official public diagnosis information was issued it's obviously at least inappropriate speculating about it. Yes, from my part, I'm done with all this thread's discussion about Amy too.


Source: https://www.youtube.com/live/K5NzBVFUf3E?si=cQPXwh7jF1k5QI88

 

[NorCal Dave]

Nobody knows what Chavez did at LANL, other than he stopped doing it 10 years ago.

Some bits of new information via CNN. I linked to my local news station as that's where I saw it and there is no paywall. It appears CNN is reporting that Anthony Chavez was construction foreman of some type at LANL. It's unclear if he was a government employee or a contractor, but it sounds like he wasn't a scientist:

Chavez, a 78-year-old retiree who worked as a foreman supervising construction at the site, also disappeared in May 2025, according to Los Alamos police. A detective told CNN there are no signs of foul play, but exhaustive searches have yielded no signs of activity or indications he was planning to leave.

So, not a scientist, not part of the military or Intel community, not in the aerospace industry, not a nuclear guy and unless he was supervising the building of underground bunkers like Dulce base for the aliens, not UFO related. He just did some construction work at LANL some 15 years ago and then went missing in May 2025.

In other cases, various family members have weighed in and countered some of the suspicious claims:

His (Michael Hicks of JPL) daughter, Julia Hicks, told CNN her father had been struggling with known medical issues and that the recent speculation has her "shaken up."

"From what I know of my dad, there's no train of logic to follow that would implicate him in this potential federal investigation," she said. "I don't understand the connection between my dad's death and the other missing scientists."

"I can't help but laugh about it, but at the same time, it's getting serious," Hicks said.

"It is true that Neil (McCasland) had a brief association with the UFO community," McCasland Wilkerson said in a Facebook post. "This connection is not a reason for someone to abduct Neil. Neil does not have any special knowledge about the ET bodies and debris from the Roswell crash stored at Wright-Patt."

(Amy) Eskridge's family said in a statement to CNN she was a "marvelously intelligent person" and suffered from "chronic pain."

"People should realize that scientists die also and not make too much of this," the family said.

https://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/...ch-have-died-or-disappeared-in-recent/article