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FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

https://fortune.com/2026/04/21/scientists-disappear-die-nasa-space-blue-origin-spacex/
59•ineedasername•1h ago

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ghstinda•1h ago
Doesn't seem connected, but makes a nice film. I think ignorance is bliss and due to the current climate, many people checking out...
F7F7F7•57m ago
Turns out scientists die too?
ozten•26m ago
> the concentration of deaths and disappearances within such a small, specialized field as defying ordinary probability.

The best conspiracy theory I've seen online is that top-secret energy/weapons plans were sold by a traitor, and these scientists were kidnapped to be the worker bees.

Terribly dark and implausible, but also, we are living through a storyline that writers wouldn't even consider a draft because it's too on-the-nose.

imglorp•56m ago
How many of the disappearances were defections?
himata4113•21m ago
This appears to be for investigating how many scientist have left the US sponsored by state powers. But this also seems like bad communication on the FBI and perhaps poor publishing.

I think there is some confusion that there are more people going missing and dying in the sector while not outlining that there are more people going missing AND dying.

Or I'm just completely wrong, the only reason why I am making such assumptions because there is more information about this in the ASML case where a whisleblower leaked that china has poached ASML engineers and have given them new identities to work in chip manufacturing sector in china.

wmf•21m ago
I don't have the link but someone estimated the number of scientists working in the defense field (it's a lot) and the number of deaths per year you'd expect (over 100). There's probably nothing here. It probably doesn't hurt to have the FBI take a second look at any death of somebody who has a security clearance or is working on export-controlled tech, but OTOH that might be a lot of work.
xbar•9m ago
Deaths and mysterious deaths are not at all the same. Mysterious deaths and vanishings become increasingly rare the higher up the socio-economic curve you climb.

It is not surprising that the FBI did not detect an actual pattern before now, considering the various ways that the entirety of it spent the entirety of 2025.

neurocline•8m ago
Once I saw “James Comer” I knew I could ignore this.
mmooss•7m ago
The article doesn't seem to reveal the source of its information about these alleged disappearances. Is it the letters from the members of Congress?

Also, what interest would a foreign power have in planetary defense against asteroids? Is there some dual-use technology in that?

Scramblejams•2m ago
Reminds me the dead Marconi scientists.

[.] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEC-Marconi_scientist_deaths_c...

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