Jacob Adrian

The investigation by law enforcement, journalist, etc on the missing scientists have been half ass to this point So here we go The Severed Chain ⠀ Three people knew how to make a metal that America needs to build serious rocket engines. ⠀ The patents for that metal expired in 2012. After that, the only place the recipe existed was inside their heads. ⠀ One died of cancer in 2014. ⠀ One vanished in June 2025. ⠀ One vanished in February 2026. ⠀ I can document all of this with patent records, SEC filings, court documents, and a memorial page someone created on the internet four days into a search-and-rescue operation. ⠀ I'm not claiming there's a shadowy assassination program. I don't have proof of that. I have a set of facts that don't fit together cleanly, and a few specific things nobody has explained. ⠀ I ran a statistical test on the pattern. It came back positive. The math is in Part 5. ⠀ --- ⠀ Update (April 2026, V6) ⠀ Since this piece first circulated, a fifth disappearance from the same institutional cluster has been reported by the Daily Mail. His name is Steven Garcia. He walked out of his Albuquerque home on August 28, 2025, six months before William McCasland walked out of his Albuquerque home in February 2026. He carried a handgun and a bottle of water. He left his phone, keys, wallet, and car. ⠀ He worked at the Kansas City National Security Campus, a nuclear weapons manufacturing complex with an Albuquerque site that partners with Sandia National Laboratories on the additive manufacturing of nickel-based superalloys. That's the same material family as Mondaloy. ⠀ Garcia has his own section, Part 8. The math in Part 5 has been updated to include him. A new Part 11 lays out the second superalloy program. The rest of the document is unchanged. ⠀ --- ⠀ Part 1: What Mondaloy is and why it matters ⠀ Rocket engines have a problem. ⠀ If you want a rocket engine that's powerful and efficient, the kind that launches military satellites or carries astronauts, you have to push hot oxygen through metal parts at extreme pressure. ⠀ Hot oxygen makes most metals catch fire. ⠀ Russia figured out how to handle this in the 1960s. They built engines that burn cleanly and powerfully. We bought them. For decades, the US military launched its own spy satellites using Russian-built engines called RD-180s. We literally couldn't make our own. ⠀ The reason we couldn't make our own was that we didn't have the right metal. Every American alloy would burn up inside the engine. ⠀ In the mid-1990s, two scientists at a company called Rockwell International invented a metal that could handle it. A nickel-based alloy. They called it Mondaloy. ⠀ That's the metal that closed the gap and lets America build serious rocket engines without buying from Russia. ⠀ The two scientists who invented it were named Monica Jacinto and Dallis Hardwick. ⠀ --- ⠀ Part 2: The three people who knew the recipe ⠀ Monica Jacinto. Co-inventor. She later got married and took the name Reza, so that's what I'll call her from here on. She spent 25 years at the company turning Mondaloy from "works in a lab" into "actually goes inside real rocket engines that fly." ⠀ That's a big jump. Inventing a metal in a lab is one thing. Knowing how to make it at production scale is twenty years of process knowledge that doesn't get written down anywhere. How to mix it. How to heat it. How to print it with 3D printers. How to put it inside an engine without the engine exploding. ⠀ She knew all of that. The company named her a Technical Fellow, the highest individual rank they give. She was the only person alive who knew the entire manufacturing chain from start to finish. ⠀ Dallis Hardwick. The other co-inventor. She moved to the Air Force and became the head of materials research at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. She ran the lab that qualified Mondaloy for military use. Got a medal. Got cancer. Died in January 2014. ⠀ General William McCasland. The Air Force general who funded all of this. PhD from MIT. Commanded Air Force Research Laboratory from 2011 to 2013. That meant a $4.4 billion budget covering every materials program the Air Force runs, including Hardwick's directorate. ⠀ Before he ran AFRL, he was the Director of Special Programs at the Pentagon and the Executive Secretary for SAPOC. SAPOC is the committee inside the Department of Defense that oversees every single classified Special Access Program, every black project the Pentagon runs. He was the guy whose committee approved them. ⠀ Three people. One inventor. One qualifier. One funder. Together they held the institutional knowledge to produce Mondaloy. ⠀ --- ⠀ Part 3: The patents are dead ⠀ Between 2001 and 2009, three US patent applications were filed for Mondaloy. ⠀ All three were abandoned. ⠀ The last one expired in December 2012. A Russian patent was filed in 2007, meaning the basic recipe was disclosed to Russia through the international patent system, but the Russian patent also expired in 2013 when someone stopped paying the fees. ⠀ After 2012, Mondaloy stopped existing as legal intellectual property. There's no patent you can read to learn how to make it. There's no document anyone can pick up and use. ⠀ The basic chemical compositions are technically public from the abandoned filings. The chemical composition isn't the recipe. The recipe is twenty years of process development: how to cast it, heat-treat it, machine it, print it, integrate it with a real engine. That kind of knowledge lives inside the people who did the work. ⠀ After 2012, Mondaloy existed only as a trade secret inside human heads. ⠀ Specifically, three human heads. ⠀ One of which was already dead from cancer. ⠀ --- ⠀ Part 4: The corporate handoffs ⠀ The company that owned Mondaloy got bought and sold seven times in thirty years. ⠀ I pulled every transfer from USPTO records: ⠀ 1990s. Rockwell International invents it. 1996. Boeing buys Rockwell for $3.2 billion. 2005. Boeing sells the rocket engine business to a shell company called Ruby Acquisition Enterprises, set up by United Technologies, for $700 million. 2005. Ruby Acquisition gets renamed Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. 2013. A company called GenCorp buys it from United Technologies for $550 million and renames it Aerojet Rocketdyne. 2023. L3Harris Technologies buys Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4.7 billion. 2026. In January, L3Harris announces it's selling 60% of the rocket engine business to a private equity firm called AE Industrial Partners for $845 million. The deal is still pending as I write this. ⠀ Each transfer is a date and a legal entity in the patent records. None of these companies show up in the ICIJ offshore leaks database, except Boeing, which has four offshore entities in Bermuda, Aruba, and Samoa from the Paradise Papers leak. ⠀ L3Harris has settled cases with the State Department for ITAR violations. ITAR is the law that governs export of weapons technology. ⠀ The current buyer is AE Industrial Partners. I'll come back to them in Part 10. ⠀ --- ⠀ Part 5: The math ⠀ The statistical test comes first. If the math doesn't work, the cases don't matter. ⠀ The places involved in this story (AFRL, Los Alamos, JPL, Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, Aerojet Rocketdyne, and the Kansas City National Security Campus New Mexico Operations site) collectively employ about 80,000 people. ⠀ If you look at the broad population of all 80,000, eleven unusual deaths and disappearances over 32 months is below normal. You'd expect more. So at the broad level, there's no signal. The cluster is noise. ⠀ The cluster isn't really "unusual deaths at defense labs." It's something more specific. ⠀ It's senior cleared people who vanished without a trace and were never found. ⠀ When I narrow the population to senior cleared personnel at those institutions (about 25,000 people) and count only the long-term unresolved disappearances, the numbers look different: ⠀ Expected disappearances over 32 months: 0.5 Observed disappearances: 5 ⠀ That's ten times the expected rate. The Poisson p-value is 0.0002. ⠀ I stress-tested this. The signal holds whether I draw the population at 10,000 or 50,000. It only breaks if I push the population past 90,000, which is implausibly broad for "senior cleared defense personnel." ⠀ The murder rate in the same population is within noise: 2 observed versus about 1.3 expected. The murders aren't the anomaly. The disappearances are. ⠀ Inside the disappearance cluster there's a tighter sub-pattern. Three of the five cases share a near-identical behavioral signature: older senior-cleared male, Albuquerque or Los Alamos resident, walks out of his own home on foot during daylight, takes a firearm and minimal gear, leaves phone and wallet and vehicle behind. Those three are Anthony Chavez (LANL, May 4 2025), Steven Garcia (KCNSC, August 28 2025), and William McCasland (retired AFRL, February 27 2026). Same city for two of them. Same method for all three. The other two disappearances (Reza on a hike, Casias in daylight with factory-reset phones) break the signature in specific ways that make the cluster slightly less clean but don't dissolve it. ⠀ There's a caveat, and it's a real one. I noticed the cluster first and then drew the population around it. That's called a Texas sharpshooter problem. You can fool yourself by defining a target after you see the bullet holes. So the right way to read p=0.0002 is "this warrants investigation," not "this is proven." ⠀ The other weak point is that I had to assume a missing-persons rate for stably employed older professionals. I used 0.75 per 100,000 per year. If the true rate is two or three times higher, the signal weakens. But arguing that senior cleared defense workers go missing at triple the normal rate is a hard case to make. These people are screened, employed, older, with stable lives. ⠀ Five senior cleared defense workers vanishing without a trace in 32 months when you'd expect half of one is the kind of number that should make somebody with a badge ask questions. ⠀ --- ⠀ Part 6: Monica Reza ⠀ June 22, 2025. Reza goes hiking with two companions in Angeles National Forest, near Mt. Waterman. One companion turns back to the car early. Reza and the second companion, who police reports call "Subject A," keep going. ⠀ Subject A says he turned around and she was gone. ⠀ That's the last confirmed sighting of Monica Reza on Earth. ⠀ The search was massive. Eight days. Helicopters with infrared cameras. Scent dogs. Hundreds of searchers from across multiple counties. Pixel-matching algorithms running on aerial photos. ⠀ They found a beanie in a steep ravine. Lip balm. Nothing else. ⠀ --- ⠀ Then something happened that I cannot explain. ⠀ June 26, 2025. Four days into the search. Helicopters are still flying. Volunteers are still walking the trails. Nobody has found a body. ⠀ Someone creates a Find A Grave memorial for Monica Reza. ⠀ Memorial ID 284387277. ⠀ Death date listed: June 22, 2025. ⠀ Burial type listed: "green burial." ⠀ Location listed: Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles County. ⠀ A green burial is not a generic word. It means a specific thing: a biodegradable container, no embalming, body placed directly in the earth. You typically need a body to plan one. ⠀ There was no body. No death certificate. The search was still active. ⠀ The memorial got deleted later. The account that created it, username "lillian," went inactive and is no longer publicly accessible. Find A Grave is owned by Ancestry.com, which means there's an email and an IP address attached to that account somewhere in their database. We can't see them. They exist. ⠀ The Sentinel Network captured a screenshot of the memorial before it was deleted. That screenshot is the only surviving public record. The Wayback Machine tried to crawl the memorial three times in late March 2026. All three crawls arrived after the memorial had already been deleted. ⠀ --- ⠀ Other things that talked about the memorial also got deleted. ⠀ A Substack publication called "Sub Intelligence Agency" launched around March 21, 2026. Within roughly two weeks, it published an article specifically about the Reza memorial and the Find A Grave anomaly. The title of that article survives in Substack's own search index: ⠀ "UPDATE: Suspicious Find a Grave online memorial for Monica Jacinto Reza has disappeared just like the missing JPL scientist herself and still missing Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland." ⠀ Post ID p-192335136. ⠀ The entire Substack, not just the article, the whole publication, was deleted before April 8, 2026. The Wayback Machine captured the Substack's homepage and one unrelated article on March 26, but the Reza article was published after that and was never archived. The article URL returns 404. The Substack URL returns 404. ⠀ That's deletion number two. ⠀ Deletion number three: the Montrose Search and Rescue team posted on Facebook acknowledging that "technical experts" had obtained cell phone forensic data in the Reza case. That post was deleted. ⠀ Deletion number four: a civilian Facebook group called "Find Monica" was set up to coordinate search volunteers. The group was deleted after someone in it asked about phone tampering. ⠀ Four different items. Four different platforms. Different timeframes. Different apparent actors. Everything that publicly discussed the Reza memorial or her phone evidence got removed. ⠀ Cell phone forensics were obtained by law enforcement. They have never been publicly released. ⠀ Aerojet Rocketdyne has never made a public statement about Reza's disappearance. Neither has NASA. Neither has JPL. Neither has any aerospace media outlet. The most senior materials scientist at Aerojet Rocketdyne, the only living person who knew the full Mondaloy manufacturing chain, vanished, and her employer has said nothing. Total institutional silence. ⠀ She's still missing. ⠀ --- ⠀ Part 7: William McCasland ⠀ February 19, 2026. President Trump signs an executive order on UAP disclosure. The order sets a 300-day clock. Every federal agency has 300 days to either produce classified UAP records or write a public, reviewable justification for keeping them classified. ⠀ The justification itself becomes a public document. It creates a paper trail acknowledging the program exists. ⠀ February 27, 2026. Eight days later. ⠀ McCasland is at his home in Albuquerque. He's 68 now, retired from the Air Force. ⠀ A repairman comes by around 10 AM. Normal interaction. ⠀ His wife leaves the house at 11:10 AM. ⠀ She comes back at 12:04 PM. ⠀ He's gone. ⠀ In that one-hour window he left behind his phone, his prescription glasses, and his wearable devices. ⠀ He took: his wallet, his hiking boots, a .38-caliber revolver, and a red backpack. ⠀ Phone left behind means untrackable. Gun taken means he expected he might need to defend himself. Hiking boots and backpack mean he was going somewhere on foot, deliberately, with a plan. ⠀ A Silver Alert was issued for him. Under New Mexico law at the time, Silver Alerts required "clear indication of irreversible deterioration of intellectual faculties." McCasland had reported "experiencing mental fog" at some point. The sheriff's lieutenant on the case said there was "no indication McCasland was disoriented or confused" and called him "arguably the most intelligent person in the room." His wife flatly denied he had dementia. ⠀ The legal threshold mattered so little in practice that New Mexico passed a new law a month later lowering the requirements for Silver Alerts. ⠀ The FBI joined the search on March 11. Kirtland Air Force Base sent personnel. More than 700 homes were canvassed. Helicopters with infrared cameras flew the area. ⠀ Nothing. ⠀ --- ⠀ His wife addressed the UFO angle in public. She said: "Neil does not have any special knowledge about the ET bodies and debris from the Roswell crash stored at Wright-Patt." She said he'd been retired for 13 years with "only very commonly held clearances since." She described his work with a guy named Tom DeLonge as helping out as an "unpaid consultant" to "lend verisimilitude to Tom's fiction book." ⠀ Tom DeLonge is the former singer of Blink-182 who became obsessed with UFO disclosure and started a company called To The Stars Academy that publicly worked with retired military officials on UAP research. ⠀ The official public framing is that McCasland was barely involved with DeLonge's UAP work, that it was just consulting on a fiction book, no big deal. ⠀ The WikiLeaks archive of John Podesta's emails tells a different story. Podesta was Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman in 2016, and his email got hacked and dumped. I searched the archive for McCasland. ⠀ There are five emails directly referencing him. They run from October 2015 through February 2016. ⠀ In January 2016, DeLonge writes to Podesta: ⠀ "I've been working with him for four months." ⠀ DeLonge describes giving McCasland "a four hour presentation on the entire project." He says McCasland "helped assemble my advisory team." That advisory team included Rob Weiss, the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, Lockheed's secret aerospace division that builds the most classified planes the US has ever made. ⠀ DeLonge writes about McCasland: "He just has to say that out loud, but he is very, very aware, as he was in charge of all of the stuff." ⠀ The entire group then schedules a Google Hangout meeting with Podesta's office on January 25, 2016. ⠀ The meeting was accepted by: ⠀ McCasland himself. Rob Weiss, the Skunk Works EVP. Susan McCasland, the wife. ⠀ The same wife who later, after her husband disappeared, told the public that he was just an unpaid consultant on a fiction book. ⠀ She was in the room. ⠀ I'm not accusing her of anything. I'm saying the documented record from 2016 and the public statement from 2026 don't match cleanly. McCasland's involvement with DeLonge was sustained, organized, advisory in nature, and involved senior figures from Lockheed's most classified division. Whether the "fiction book" framing was always how Susan McCasland understood it, or whether it was a description constructed after her husband disappeared, is a question only she can answer. ⠀ McCasland left his phone on the table, took a gun, and walked out of his house eight days after the federal government announced it would begin reviewing the very programs he once oversaw. No body. No vehicle. No transactions. No cell signal. Nothing. ⠀ --- (cont) ⠀

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