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See full terms@mintmobile.com youm know, I don't do conspiracies here on the buck brief. I leave that to other people online who read a lot less, think a lot less rigorously, and never intend to be held to account for what they say. But there is something that's happening that bears paying attention to right now, and the media is not talking about it. And it certainly feels like a conspiracy. But tell me what's going on. Let's look at this together right now. There's a pattern of at least 10, and some people say 12 top scientists and engineers who are tied directly to US national security. Nuclear programs, aerospace breakthroughs, you know, stuff in the space defense realm. And they've either turned up dead under suspicious circumstances or, or they flat out vanished into thin air since 2022. I mean, who's vanishing these days, right? This is very unusual. Adults just vanishing. These are not random civilians. There's men and women here. We're talking about people with top secret clearances working at places like NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Alamos National Lab, Caltech, MITs, fusion programs. This is some of the most important and sensitive technology that is out there. This is the heart of the American edge. If we still have it over China in hypersonics, nuclear tech, advanced propulsion and yeah, that's right, even stuff that the Pentagon sort of talks about doesn't really talk about, like unidentified aerial phenomena, UAPs. That's what we say now. Not UFOs. It's gone to UAPs. But President Trump is not letting this slide. He has called it pretty serious stuff. He had meetings at the White House where he discussed it. And he ordered the FBI, the Department of Energy and the Pentagon to dig deep into this stuff. 10 missing scientists with access to classified stuff, nuclear material, aerospace. They've all gone missing or turned up dead in the last couple months, based on what you've been briefed, what do you think is happening here? And do you think that this is connected or totally random? Well, I hope it's random but we're going to know in the next week and a half. I just left the meeting on that subject, so pretty serious stuff. But we're going to be not, hopefully, I don't know, coincidence if you want it, whatever you want to call it. But some of them were very important people and we're going to look at it over the next. He told reporters look, he hopes it's just coincidence but when you got that many brilliant minds like connected to the rocket tech, super classified stuff, nuclear secrets and they're just gone. Some shot on their porches, some are suicides, some disappearing on hikes but with their phones and glasses left behind, that just feels like a lot of coincidence, right? It feels like there's a lot going on there. You're asking for a lot for people to assume that that's no big deal. The Republican House Oversight Committee is already demanding briefings on this cash. Patel's FBI is hunting for links. So this isn't fringe stuff and this is being looked at from the very top of the government and some people are saying this is a national security red alert. Now I don't go that far but I am talking to you about it because something's going on here. So as somebody who's usually a skeptic, I forget which one in the X Files is the skeptic? Mulder and Scully. Which one is the believer, which one's not. I'm the non believer usually in the stuff. But let me walk you through some of these cases because a lot of people are really hair standing on edge over this stuff and they think it needs a lot more attention. OK, take retired Air Force Major General William McNeill McCasland. He's the former commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory. He's the guy who helped run the real pentagon investigations into UAPs. Unexplained aerial phenomena. The unexplained stuff in our skies. In February 2026, he vanished from his own home in Albuquerque. Phone, prescription glasses, wearable devices, all left behind. Wallet and a.38 revolver gone with him. No sign of struggle, no foul play according to the local sheriff. But his wife even said he only had basic clearances post retirement and a brief brush with the UFO community for a book. But the guy knew some things. Now he's just gone. And there's more. I'll get to Those here in just a second. When there are supply constraints on commodities, prices surge. And our sponsor Birch Gold Group knows that you're seeing this with oil and you're gonna see it with gold too. Gold is mined out of the ground. Its deposits are rare. And when it's gone, it's gone. Governments can't just print it. It's not just numbers on a screen. It's real. 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I'm working through this as we go. So let's go to another name here. We mentioned one, McCaslin. Now we've got Monica Reza, director of the Materials processing group at JPL. In June of 2025, she disappeared while hiking in a Los Angeles forest. Okay, so she's 60 years old, a brilliant aerospace engineer. She's working on the cutting edge of what NASA and the military need to dominate space. Nobody, no clues, vanished like into thin air. Okay, then you have Michael David hicks, another longtime JPL scientist, dead in 2023 after nearly 25 years on sensitive projects. Frank Mywald, Maywald, maybe. JPL, space research specialist, gone in 2024 at 61. Carl Grill Mayer, Caltech astrophysicist tied to NASA awards, shot dead on his own front porch in early 2026. Just earlier this year, MIT's Nuno Larrero, a plasma physics and fusion expert working on tech that could power the next generation of weapons or energy systems, murdered in a targeted killing. Amy Eskridge propulsion researcher who is deep into exotic Science. Before her 2022 death was ruled a suicide, despite messages where she explicitly said if anything happened to her, it wouldn't be suicide. These are not isolated tragedies when you line them up right, it seems like something is happening here. I mean, you've got Los Alamo staffers missing in New Mexico, nuclear contractors, rocket scientists. Maybe it's all random, maybe it's all coincidence, but it's a lot, isn't it? Something's going on. So let's just, for the purposes of discussion here, just assume that there is something going. What are the theories? This is the other place I like to go. This is where a lot of conspiracies completely fall apart because you start to say, well, why would they do this? Or how would they do this? And sure enough, there's no plausible theory. So let's go through the theories here. Theory number one, and this is the one that has a lot of people online certainly really concerned foreign adversaries running a targeted assassination campaign. Kidnapping and assassination, in some cases, against us. So that would be China, Russia, Iran. Look, we know that the Chinese Communist Party, for example, has been running information thievery ops, corporate espionage, national security espionage, everything against us for a long time. They've been using people at universities, they've been running honey traps. Honey traps, swal. Well, could this have gone further than that? It's a big risk for those countries to take to be eliminating people on our soil like this. So I don't see that. I don't see that as. As the answer here. But it's certainly one that is out there. And people are saying, well, what if Xi Jinping has operatives that are picking off specifically some of the best and the brightest here? And that's a slow but continuous effort. Like the slow drum beat here is going to get louder over time of trying to take out people who are critical to our national security technological edge. So that's one theory that's out there for an adversary theory. I'm not saying it's super strong. I'm just saying that's a theory that's out there. So we're doing this together. I'm gonna come back to theories two and three here in just a second. But our sponsor. Super sure, here's a question. How many brokers does it take to insure your business? If you're like most business owners, the answer is too many. Multiple policies, multiple applications, no clear view of how it all fits together. And when questions come up, it's not easy to get the clarity you need. Super sure changes that. One broker for all your business insurance backed by a team that works with you year round, not just at renewal. 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And someone this is where you get very conspiratorial elements within our own government silence them to keep the black projects black, essentially to keep them in the in the dark here. McCaslan wasn't just any general. He had a hand in real UAP investigations. We know that Eskridge was chasing anti gravity and breakthrough propulsion. Others were deep in material science that could explain some of the impossible maneuvers that pilots have filmed. The Pentagon's own UAP reports admit we don't know what the hell some of these things are. Ok, so what if a few of these researchers were on the verge of blowing the lid off reverse engineered tech, Zero point energy or programs that could end our dependence on foreign oil and Chinese supply chains overnight, for example. So this is where people are saying it's essentially they knew too much about UAPs and they've been silenced by some element of the deep state. Again, it's a little out there, but these are. I'm telling you what the theories are online. Theory number three, call it internal house cleaning with a darker twist. Maybe it's not just a cover up. Maybe it's corruption. So this would now be defense contractors, big tech partners in aerospace, rogue elements inside the labs, eliminating whistleblowers who are about to expose waste, fraud or dangerous experiments gone wrong. Maybe they knew something about some companies that if exposed would bring them financial ruin. So you're talking here almost like recklessness being exposed that had to be silenced internally. Something like that. So those are the three theories about what's going on here. Which one do you think is the most likely. I can't say that any of them to me are the answer. And I also uphold that maybe this is all just coincidence. But it's weird enough that the President's looking into it, the FBI is looking into it. They're not ignoring it. So I think that means we should certainly be willing to dive into it a bit. And some of you know more about this than I do. Some of you have been researching this a lot longer, so let me know in the comments. And, and check it out. Trump is calling this serious, by the way. So the President of the United States has said this is serious. I don't think he can ignore something when the President's saying we're looking at this. So keep your eyes on this story. Please share this YouTube out share it to your page. You know, put it on Facebook, whatever. We'll get the word out on this because we can demand answers. Soon I'll be in D.C. and I can see some of these people. I won't tell you who exactly, but the kind of people who can get you answers. And I'm going to ask them about this for sure. So a different kind of buck brief today, but I hope you found it enlightening, useful and we'll stay on it.
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Date: May 7, 2026 | Host: Buck Sexton
In this Buck Brief solo segment, Buck Sexton investigates a chilling trend: the deaths and disappearances of top American scientists and engineers connected to sensitive national security projects, including the UFO (now called UAP) phenomenon. Buck—self-described as not a conspiracy theorist—delivers a skeptical yet open-minded analysis of the possible explanations, reviews key names and incidents, and highlights escalating concern at the highest levels of government, including action from President Trump. The episode explores plausible (and less-plausible) theories and calls for attentive public scrutiny.
Buck walks through several key figures and incidents:
Buck details three main explanations circulating online and among experts:
Buck Sexton [05:13]:
“Some shot on their porches, some are suicides, some disappearing on hikes but with their phones and glasses left behind… that just feels like a lot of coincidence, right? It feels like there’s a lot going on there.”
Buck Sexton [10:59]:
“These are not isolated tragedies when you line them up, right? It seems like something is happening here.”
Buck Sexton [16:38]:
“Which one do you think is the most likely? I can’t say that any of them to me are the answer. And I also uphold that maybe this is all just coincidence. But it’s weird enough that the President’s looking into it, the FBI’s looking into it.”
Buck Sexton [16:59]:
“Keep your eyes on this story… We can demand answers. Soon I’ll be in D.C. and I can see some of these people. I won’t tell you who exactly, but the kind of people who can get you answers. And I’m going to ask them about this for sure.”
Buck delivers the segment with characteristic wit, skepticism, and a journalistic approach—open to discussion, but grounded in facts and logic. He encourages listener involvement and maintains a balance between entertaining the conspiracy, addressing its seriousness, and demanding evidence and accountability.
In this Buck Brief, Buck Sexton shines a light on a disturbing trend of mysterious deaths and disappearances among America’s top national security scientists, especially those with ties to UFO/UAP research. While maintaining skepticism, Buck explores plausible and far-out theories—from hostile foreign operations to deep-state concealment and whistleblower silencing. He emphasizes the seriousness of the issue given high-level government involvement and invites listeners to stay vigilant, share information, and push for answers as the nation’s scientific edge—and possibly more—appears to be at risk.