A young anti-gravity scientist was discovered dead after stating her life could be at risk, marking another case amongst a series of mysterious deaths and disappearances in recent years, with US President Donald Trump confirming officials are examining the incidents.

Amy Eskridge, 34, reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in Huntsville, Alabama on June 11, 2022. Neither police nor medical examiners have publicly disclosed any details of an investigation into her death.

Amy was researching and attempting to develop anti-gravity technology, an achievement which could revolutionise space travel and energy production.

In 2020, Amy stated that she was preparing to present groundbreaking foundational work concerning antigravity but needed authorisation from NASA.

Following her death, an interview has surfaced in which Amy herself, alongside independent findings submitted to Congress, asserted that the death was not a suicide but rather a murder conspiracy, the Mirror reported.

US President Donald Trump, responding to a reporter's question on Thursday, April 16 regarding 10 scientists who had already disappeared or been found dead, said: "I hope it's random, but we're going to know in the next week and a half."

"Pretty serious stuff... Some of them were very important people, and we're going to look at it over the next short period."

Amy also co-founded a research organisation, The Institute for Exotic Science, to provide a "public-facing persona to disclose anti-gravity technology." She established the institute alongside her father, Richard Eskridge, a retired NASA engineer who specialised in plasma physics and fusion technology.

She is quoted as saying: "If you stick your neck out in public, at least someone notices if your head gets chopped off."

"If you stick your neck out in private... they will bury you, they will burn down your house while you're sleeping in your bed and it won't even make the news. That's why the institute exists."

The Institute for Exotic Science has reportedly shut down following its co-founder's death.

Amy spoke during a 2020 podcast interview in which she outlined a plan for the public disclosure of UFOs and extra-terrestrials, while expressing mounting concern over the threats being made against her.

"I need to disclose soon, man. I need to publish soon because it's like escalating. It's getting more and more aggressive. This has been going on for like four or five years, and over the past 12 months, it's been escalating, like more aggressive, more invasive digging through my underwear drawer and sexual threats."

Amy's case appears to follow an alarming pattern of scientists who were investigating crucial areas of technology or space exploration at the time of their murder or unexplained death. Since Amy died in 2022, five other prominent researchers have lost their lives, including two who were murdered in their own homes.

Nuno Loureiro, 47, was killed at his home in Boston on December 15, 2025. Authorities stated that the gunman was a former classmate from Portugal. However, a former FBI official and independent investigators have suggested that Nuno's work in nuclear fusion may have made him a target in a wider conspiracy against US scientists.

In a separate incident, astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, 67, was shot in an unprovoked attack at his California home on February 16, 2026, after being gunned down on his front porch. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department named a person of interest in Grillmair's case and subsequently charged the individual with murder, carjacking and burglary.

Separately, NASA scientists Michael David Hicks and Frank Maiwald, both of whom worked at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Lab in California, died under unknown circumstances at a young age.

In yet another baffling case, Jason Thomas, a pharmaceutical researcher trialling cancer treatments at Novartis, was discovered dead in a Massachusetts lake on March 17, 2026, having vanished without a trace three months prior. Local police have maintained that no foul play is suspected.

Several other individuals have been reported missing and remain unaccounted for.