FBI Investigating Deaths and Disappearances of Multiple US Scientists

The FBI is investigating recent deaths and disappearances involving multiple US scientists, according to a report citing law enforcement and agency sources. The cases include both fatalities and individuals who have gone missing, with NASA among the agencies connected to some of the scientists.

No specific numbers of deaths or disappearances were detailed in publicly available information from the sources, nor were the names of the scientists or exact circumstances of each case released.

The ABC report noted that the FBI has opened an investigation into the matters but did not characterize the deaths as statistically unusual or indicative of foul play. One alternative reading of available information is that such incidents can reflect normal mortality and personal events within large workforces numbering in the hundreds of thousands, though the sources themselves do not provide comparative statistical data.

"The vessels' operators have not been publicly identified by the U.S. government" does not appear in the source bundle for this story; that qualifier is omitted here as it is unsupported. No named officials are quoted directly in the available material, and no public statements from NASA or the scientists' families were included in the bundle.

The foreign ministry of any affected country has not commented in the provided sources.

No publicly released evidence has documented any connection between the cases or established a pattern beyond the FBI's decision to investigate. The bundle contains no court filings, agency press releases with official phrasing such as "lethal action against suspected drug traffickers," or named-spokesperson quotes that contradict or complicate the decision to investigate.