The Occult History of NASA
The History of Rocket Science leading to the eventual formation of NASA is far from just a technical narrative, intertwining the strange rituals of secretive occult groups, and the fusion of rapid technological advances with pervasive messaging on television associating space travel and advanced technology with magic, miracles and occult concepts.
Foundational figures like Jack Parsons, a trailblazing rocket scientist who helped found NASAs precursor the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (jokingly referred to as Jack Parsons’ Lab), also practiced ritual magic through associations with Aleister Crowley and the OTO, or Ordo Templi Orientis, a secret society based on worship of the goddess Thelema. At the same time, Hollywood’s long-standing fascination with mysticism, symbolism, and science fiction has helped shape public perceptions of space exploration, often blending technological achievement with mythic or esoteric imagery. The overlap between rocketry, occult secret societies, and Hollywood storytelling continues to fuel enduring theories about the hidden agenda behind America’s space program.
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley is widely regarded as the most influential western occultist of all time, and his work profoundly influenced the formation of NASA as well as echoing throughout secret societies and military programs in the 20th century. Crowley was born in 1875 in Leamington, England, into a wealthy, deeply Christian family tied to the Plymouth Brethren. Although he initially intended to pursue chemistry, his interests shifted toward religion, alchemy, and the occult. In 1898, he joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, where he studied ritual magic under figures like Alan Bennett. After inheriting a fortune, Crowley lived extravagantly across Europe and Mexico, immersing himself in esoteric practices and eventually purchasing Boleskine House on Loch Ness, where he claimed to conduct intense magical rituals that led to disturbing and allegedly dangerous occurrences.
Later, during the 1918 “Amalantrah Working,” Crowley worked with his “Scarlet Woman,” Roddie Minor, to channel visions and entities through altered states induced by drugs like hashish and mescaline. Throughout his life, such partners acted as mediums for spiritual communication, but Crowley aimed to go further—seeking direct interaction with these entities. During this period, he claimed to encounter a being named Lam, a figure he described as an “Enochian entity” rather than extraterrestrial, but which later drew comparisons to alien imagery in popular culture.
Crowley’s “Lam” took inspiration from the so-called “Enochian Call,” a Cabalistic language devised by 17th century Elizabethan magician, Dr. John Dee. Interestingly, Dee and his “scryer,” Edward Kelly, had their very own strange experiences with—as they termed them—“little men” who moved around “in a little fiery cloud,” possibly describing a vision of a proto-UFO.
Many researchers who study Aleister Crowley argue that his occult practices may have accessed the same mysterious realm often associated with the “Gray” aliens described in modern alien-encounter accounts. These entities are frequently discussed in the work of figures like Budd Hopkins, John E. Mack, and David M. Jacobs, particularly in relation to alien abduction experiences. Notably, many alleged abductees only recall such encounters while under hypnosis or in altered states of consciousness. This has led to the suggestion that trance-like states—similar to those induced during Crowley’s rituals—may play a key role in accessing or perceiving these unusual phenomena.
According to his own Confessions, Aleister Crowley attempted to offer his services to the British government during World War I and eventually traveled to New York in 1914 under vague circumstances. While his stated role as a purchasing agent was unsuccessful, he spent several years in the U.S. engaged in occult practices, political theatrics, and possible intelligence work. Crowley claimed he tried to infiltrate German networks and gather information for Britain, sometimes acting independently after receiving little official support, though evidence suggests he may have had connections through figures like John Quinn.
In the confessions of Aleister Crowley, he names Belle da Costa Greene as one of the first people he meets in New York and later as a sexual partner. She was a known intelligence asset of JP Morgan and there is speculation that through this “tryst among spies” the sinking of the RMS Lusitania was planned as a false flag operation to drag USA into WW1.
During this period, Crowley drew attention for pro-Irish and seemingly pro-German activities, including a staged declaration of Irish independence in New York, which may have served as propaganda or disinformation aligned with British interests. American and British intelligence agencies monitored him closely, at times suspecting him of being a double agent.
Jack Parsons
John “Jack” Whiteside Parsons (Born Marvel Parsons, interestingly serving as the inspiration for the Marvel Comics Franchise) was born to parents Ruth Virginia Whiteside and Marvel H. Parsons on October 2, 1914. His suburban Los Angeles, California upbringing was anything but normal. Parsons’ parents were in a “dark whirlwind romance” of “new-age spiritualism” when he was born. His father was a prolific freemason belonging to Almas temple and the Blue lodge of masons in Fort Monroe. As a kid in Pasadena, Parsons was obsessed with traveling to the moon, and he devoured Jules Verne novels. That curiosity extended into a love of explosives. The 12-year-old budding chemist would scrape the black powder from fireworks and pack it tightly into casings to fashion rudimentary rockets.
Around this time, Parsons first experimented with the occult, even attempting to contact the devil in his bedroom. He was drawn in by Aleister Crowley, who he saw as an eccentric English figure who blended magic, sexuality, and spirituality. Crowley’s Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) appealed to Parsons because it mirrored his ambitions in rocketry—both promised expansion beyond earthly limits, whether physical or metaphysical.
After attending an OTO mass in Los Angeles in 1939, Parsons became captivated by its beliefs, including ideas of hidden dimensions and radical sexual freedom. By 1941, he and his wife Helen had joined the group, which attracted a mix of artists, scientists, and devotees of Crowley’s teachings.
Parsons didn’t hide these interests from his colleagues at JPL. To the contrary, during rocket tests, he would recite a poem of Crowley’s called “Hymn to Pan”, allegedly for for good luck. His colleagues just laughed and shook their heads. One called him a “delightful screwball.”
Thelemic Occultism
Jack Parsons viewed rocketry and the occult as parallel pursuits—one liberating the body, the other the mind and spirit. Drawn to Thelema, he embraced its focus on magick (understood as spiritual or paranormal practice) and sex rituals, where acts like the Gnostic Mass treated sexuality as sacred. After attending these rituals, Parsons became deeply involved, interpreting his paranormal experiences through the lens of emerging scientific ideas like quantum mechanics.
Over time, Parsons became one of Crowley’s most devoted followers, leading the Agape Lodge of the O.T.O. in California and attempting to carry out elaborate rituals inspired by Crowley’s teachings, such as the “Babalon Working.” Although Crowley initially supported Parsons’ enthusiasm, their relationship grew strained, particularly due to Crowley’s concerns about Parsons’ judgment, drug abuse, financial decisions, and associations—most notably with L. Ron Hubbard. By the mid-1940s, Crowley had become critical of Parsons, viewing him as misguided, even as Parsons continued to revere and practice Crowley’s occult system.
In 1952, shortly before his death, Parsons and Marjorie Cameron decided to travel to Mexico for a few months, both for a vacation and for Parsons to take up a job opportunity establishing an explosives factory for the Mexican government. They hoped that this would facilitate a move to Israel, where they could start a family, and where Parsons could bypass the U.S. government to recommence his rocketry career. He was particularly disturbed by the presence of the FBI, convinced that they were spying on him. This has fueled speculation that his death, quickly ruled an accident by the investigation, was actually foul play by authorities.
L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard became closely involved with Jack Parsons in the mid-1940s, joining him in occult practices influenced by Aleister Crowley’s Thelemic system. Together, Hubbard and Parsons carried out “Babalon Working,” a series of rituals intended to invoke a divine feminine entity. However, their relationship deteriorated when Hubbard left with Parsons’ partner, Sara Northrup, and a significant portion of Parsons’ money, prompting sharp criticism from Crowley, who already viewed Hubbard as an untrustworthy grifter.
Ron Hubbard wrote an unpublished manuscript called Excalibur in 1938 that formed the basis for his later ideas of Dianetics and Scientology. Excalibur was written after Hubbard experienced a hallucination while under nitrous oxide. The manuscript discussed Hubbard’s ideas about the human mind that he later developed into Dianetics and Scientology. By 1957, Hubbard had advertised a “very limited edition” of Excalibur at a price of $1,500 per copy. Hubbard’s ad cautions that “four of the first fifteen people who read it went insane”. He promised that the work contained “data not to be released during Mr. Hubbard’s stay on earth”
L. Ron Hubbard, heavily influenced by his background in demonology and ritualistic experimentation, showed a strong imaginative interest in space travel, primarily through his prolific work in science fiction during the 1930s and 1940s, where he wrote stories that explored interplanetary exploration, advanced spacecraft, and cosmic civilizations, contributing greatly to the national curiosity in space travel that would eventually lead to the Apollo missions. His ideas about space were largely philosophical and narrative rather than technical, reflecting a fascination with humanity’s potential to transcend Earth as a spiritual ideal. Unlike figures such as Jack Parsons, Hubbard did not contribute to the scientific or engineering side of rocketry, nor is there evidence that he directly funded or materially supported space programs like NASA. Instead, his later work in Scientology, heavily drawing from Thelemic ideas, also incorporated space-themed concepts—such as ancient cosmic events and extraterrestrial narratives—which influenced cultural perceptions but remained separate from real-world aerospace development.
Walt Disney
Walt Disney, a Masonic Rosicrucian, expanded from film into television in the 1950s, using his Disneyland series to explore futuristic ideas through the “Tomorrowland” segment. With no existing material, Disney tasked a team led by Ward Kimball to create “science-factual” programs about space exploration. Collaborating with prominent scientists like the ex-Nazi, Wernher von Braun, these shows—Man in Space (1955), Man and the Moon (1955), and Mars and Beyond (1957)—combined entertainment with real scientific concepts, helping introduce the public to ideas like rockets, space stations, and human spaceflight. Their broad reach even influenced policymakers, with reports that President Dwight D. Eisenhower screened Man in Space as an educational tool.
These programs played a role in shaping public enthusiasm just before the Space Race accelerated with the launch of Sputnik and the creation of NASA in 1958. Disney later maintained connections with the space program, visiting NASA facilities and expressing interest in promoting space exploration through media. Although he died before the Apollo missions, his work helped popularize space travel and align public imagination with scientific ambition. The collaboration between Disney storytellers and scientists like von Braun ultimately contributed to a cultural environment that supported milestones such as the Apollo 11 Moon landing, blending visionary storytelling with real technological progress.
Walt Disney had futuristic visions for humanity, and was willing to put his money where his mouth was to make it happen. The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (E.P.C.O.T) was a concept developed by Walt Disney near the end of his lifetime that went as far as elaborate visions and plans and the purchase of property near Orlando, Florida that eventually became the Walt Disney World resort, including Epcot (formerly known as EPCOT Center), a related concept transformed into a theme park after Disney’s death. It was a “community of the future” that was designed to stimulate American corporations to come up with new ideas for urban living. Of E.P.C.O.T, Walt Disney is quoted as saying, “E.P.C.O.T will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are emerging from the forefront of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed. It will always be showcasing and testing and demonstrating new materials and new systems.”
Walt Disney’s involvement with NASA was rooted in a strategic partnership aimed at popularizing the concept of space exploration through “mental conditioning” of the masses. The relationship established a long-standing connection between the two organizations, exemplified by Disney’s continuous use of “magic” and occult-inspired themes in their branding and the frequent references to NASA and space in Disney productions. This partnership served as a precursor to the 1969 moon landing, with Disney and Hollywood—specifically through figures like Stanley Kubrick—playing a central role in crafting the public’s perception of outer space.
The connection between Disney, NASA, and Hollywood extends into more modern media through the work of Tom Hanks, who served as a primary “narrator” for the space program’s public image. According to the presentation, the year 1995 was particularly significant as it saw the release of both Toy Story—a Disney-Pixar collab with NASA featuring “Buzz” Lightyear—and Apollo 13, starring Hanks as Jim Lovell. This dual release is viewed as a coordinated effort to keep the Apollo missions “hip” and relevant to both children and adults.
Hanks’s involvement deepened in 1998 when he served as the executive producer for the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, further cementing his role in dramatizing and validating the Apollo era. These projects are part of a continuous “conditioning” process, where Hollywood icons like Hanks are used to reinforce the legitimacy of NASA’s history. This is often tied back to Disney through subtle Easter eggs, such as the numerous references to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining found within Toy Story —including the iconic hexagonal carpet pattern and references to “Room 237” (A reference to the moon being 237,000kms from earth)—which theorists claim are “confessions” that the moon landings were a cinematic production rather than a physical reality.
Arthur C Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke played a defining role in shaping modern space culture, particularly in the United States, where his ideas helped bridge the gap between science fiction and real-world space exploration. Long before satellites became reality, Clarke accurately predicted global communications networks in geostationary orbit, influencing both engineers and policymakers during the early space age. His collaboration with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey further cemented his cultural impact, presenting space travel not as pulp fantasy but as a philosophical and technological frontier. Through his writing and public commentary, Clarke helped cultivate a vision of space as humanity’s next evolutionary step—an idea that deeply resonated during the Cold War era and continues to shape public imagination around agencies like NASA.
Clarke’s Childhood’s End offers a far more unsettling and biblical vision of humanity’s future in space. The story depicts an alien race resembling demons, the Overlords, who peacefully take control of Earth, guiding humanity into a utopian phase—only to reveal that this “progress” culminates in the absorption of human consciousness into a collective cosmic entity. The novel challenges the assumption that technological or extraterrestrial advancement is inherently beneficial, instead presenting it as a loss of individuality, culture, and human identity. The story bears a chilling resemblance to “Project Blue Beam” theories which assert an alien invasion will be faked to justify a one world government. Beneath its calm, almost benevolent surface lies a deeply ambiguous message: that humanity’s evolution may ultimately mean its extinction as we understand it, raising enduring questions about control, transcendence, and whether a perfect future is worth the cost of being human.
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun was a Nazi Rocket scientist who was brought to the US under operation paperclip, a post war acquisition of Germany’s finest scientific minds. He had emerged from a background shaped not only by aristocratic privilege and scientific curiosity, but by the occult-tinged ideological climate of Nazi Germany. He operated within a system influenced by SS mysticism, Aryan mythology, and esoteric institutions like the Ahnenerbe, where science and occult belief often overlapped. Within this environment, rocketry was seen by some as more than engineering—it was a symbolic and even spiritual effort to reach the heavens. People point out occult symbolism in many of the decision made by von Braun, such as choosing auspicious celestial launch dates, and designing occult symbolism into the rocket bodies themselves.
Scientifically, von Braun was one of the most pivotal figures in modern rocketry. As the technical leader at Peenemünde, he developed the V-2 rocket—the world’s first ballistic missile—before being brought to the United States under Operation Paperclip. There, his expertise became central to the American space program, leading to the creation of rockets like Redstone and Saturn V, which ultimately powered the Apollo missions and the Moon landing. His collaboration with Walt Disney also helped popularize space travel, blending scientific ambition with a sense of cosmic destiny and shaping public imagination around humanity’s future beyond Earth.
Though Jack Parsons and von Braun never met, they had an intercontinental correspondence as teenagers where they exchanged ideas about rocketry. They shared information and experimental notes for years via letters and phone calls before going their separate ways as adults, with von Braun working for the German army and Parsons for CalTech.
According to the recollection from Dr. Carol Rosin, one of von Braun’s closest colleagues, his alleged deathbed confession reveals that NASA was never a genuine space exploration body, but a front for a vast, coordinated system of global deception.
He outlined four major hoaxes in 1970 that would be used to justify military expansion and control:
- The Red Scare – The Cold War was used to justify the arms race and nuclear stockpiling.
- Terrorist Threats – The rise of global terrorism kept the military-industrial complex thriving.
- Asteroids and Space Threats – Fear of cosmic destruction allowed for the development of space-based weapons.
- The Final Card – A fake alien invasion – The last and biggest hoax to unite humanity under a one-world government.
According to von Braun, major milestones such as the Moon landing were staged to manipulate public perception, justify massive funding, and conceal the true capabilities and intentions of powerful elites. Von Braun, having transitioned from Nazi rocket programs under Operation Paperclip into a leading role in the American space program, is seen as a central insider who ultimately exposed the hidden agenda behind the institution.
Von Braun also warned of a long-term strategy to control humanity through manufactured threats—beginning with the Cold War, followed by terrorism and cosmic dangers, and culminating in a staged extraterrestrial invasion designed to unify the world under a single authority. Associated ideas, such as Project Blue Beam, suggest advanced technologies could be used to fabricate large-scale illusions and crises. Events like the Challenger disaster and UFO phenomena are called into question as part of this broader system of psychological manipulation, reinforcing the belief that many aspects of modern history—including space exploration—has been carefully engineered to shape public belief and maintain control. Testimony like this has spawned generations of speculation and conspiracy about the credibility of past space travel.
The Collins Elite
The Collins Elite is an alleged occult think tank established post-WW2 within the US intelligence community. Popularized in Nick Redfern’s 2010 book, Final Events, where numerous insider testimonies corroborate his claims. Funding for their investigations was routed through the CIA’s Directorate of Plans, a mechanism used for highly sensitive and secretive operations. This method is consistent with other covert programs like MKUltra and Operation Gladio. The true name of the project remains unknown, but the term ‘Collins Elite’ persists as an insider moniker.
The Formation of the Collin’s elite was rooted in concerns over the “Jack Parsons era” at the JPL, and believed that Jack’s occult rituals were opening spiritual gateways. The Collins Elite viewed things from a Christian Eschatological framework and believed Extraterrestrials and UAP’s were in fact spiritual entities that could be summoned via ritual, based on events such as the rash of UFO sightings immediately after Parsons and Hubbard’s “Babalon Working” rituals. They came to believe the aliens manifesting as UFO sightings and abduction cases were in fact the workings of fallen angels, or “Nephilim”, intent on the spiritual enslavement of humanity.
From this perspective, Extraterrestrial activity came to be viewed by the group as a “grand deception” being played on humanity, evidence of a spiritual war or war on human consciousness. Echoing von Braun, they warned the ultimate plan was to fake an alien invasion to surrender control to a demonic elite.
The group’s work shows the Pentagon’s willingness to explore non-traditional explanations, acknowledging that some phenomena may not be purely physical or extraterrestrial but could have roots in human ritual and consciousness.
Fritz Springmeier
Springmeier is one of the worlds foremost experts on occult secret societies and the satanic ritual abuse they perpetrate around the world. He believes most if not all abductions people experience are an extension of MKUltra mind control and generational satanism at the highest echelons of power, rather than an extraterrestrial contact event.
He believes the aliens manifesting on earth are in fact fallen angels, or Nephilim, and will impersonate advanced beings to facilitate psychological programming of the human race. He asserts there is an extremely close correlation between occult involvement and abduction experiences, and victims recollections of alien abduction is a manifestation of deep-trauma conditioning.
After many years of research, at a certain point, you realize these are not aliens from another planet but demons, fallen angels or demonic energy.
Fritz is another subscriber to the “Project Blue Beam” theory, that the illuminati is working on a deceptive plan to surrender human sovereignty to dark demonic forces under the guise of it being managed by an “evolved race” from the stars.
Masonic and Ritualistic Symbolism in NASA
The history of NASA and its predecessors is deeply intertwined with occult and Masonic symbolism, suggesting a ritualistic layer beneath the surface of “nuts and bolts” aerospace engineering. A significant number of NASA’s early power structure, including astronauts like Buzz Aldrin and administrators like James Webb, were 33rd degree freemasons. The number 33, revered in the Scottish Rite, appears repeatedly in NASA infrastructure such as Runway 33 at Kennedy Space Center and Launchpad 33 at White Sands.
Occult influence is visible in mission patches, such as the Apollo logo’s alignment with the constellation Orion (Osiris). Furthermore, the timing of major launches often coincides with pagan cross-quarter days like Samhain and Walpurgisnacht, implying that some within the agency view space exploration not merely as a scientific endeavor, but as a transcendental rite designed to open gateways between worlds.
Buzz Aldrin carried a Masonic flag with him on his moon mission and later established a Masonic “moon lodge” by proxy on earth.
The NROL-16 Launch in 2005 occurred at 12:50AM on April 30, the traditional pagan holiday of Walpurgisnacht. In occult traditions this is considered a time when the “Gates between worlds” open.
Richard C. Hoagland, a former NASA consultant to the Goddard Spaceflight center, and science advisor to Walter Cronkite and CBS News, presents a deeply critical and conspiratorial view of NASA in his book Dark Mission: The Secret History of Nasa, arguing that the public image of the agency as a transparent, civilian scientific body is fundamentally misleading. Drawing on his past association with NASA and media roles, he claims the agency has spent decades concealing major discoveries from the public, stating bluntly:
“The NASA that we’ve known for over 50 years has been a lie.”
Central to his argument is the idea that most NASA employees are unaware of this deception, which he attributes instead to leadership operating under national security directives.
A key pillar of Hoagland’s argument is NASA’s origin and legal framework. He emphasises that, despite its public branding, NASA was established with explicit ties to the U.S. defence and intelligence apparatus during the Cold War. He points to provisions in the founding legislation that allow for the classification of information, arguing this enables the government to withhold critical data from the public. In his view,
“what the Congress, the press and the American taxpayers get to see… is totally dependent on whether information is classified for national security”,
Data Downloads
An interesting recurring phenomenon in the throughout the development of rocket science has been ‘“Data Downloads”, supposed information received telepathically from non-human intelligence.
Russian spaceflight was pioneered by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), who was influenced by the “Cosmist” philosopher Nikolai Federov. In 1929, he described the logic behind multi-stage rockets — an idea so elegant and necessary that every space agency now uses it. He proposed gyroscopes for stabilization, centrifuges for gravity studies, jet propulsion in the vacuum of space. In another time, perhaps, he would have led a space agency. In his own time, he was a deaf teacher with a telescope and a mind that would not stop climbing.
Later, when Wernher von Braun’s notebooks were found, they were filled with marginalia on a translated copy of Tsiolkovsky’s work — underlined, commented, revered. The man who led the Saturn V project had once been a student of a Russian mystic in exile.
Tsiolkovsky believed he received “mental blueprints” and celestial symbols from “ethereal beings” existing beyond our dimension.
Wernher von Brauns Mentor, Hermann Oberth, publicly stated that his scientific advancements were aided by “people of other worlds”.
Timothy Taylor, a NASA mission controller, claimed to receive technological “downloads” from non human intelligence that led to patents and commercial success. An excerpt from this great article about Tim Taylors origins and career:
Taylor’s explanation for his inventions is one of the most consistently reported elements of his story, described independently by both Cameron and Pasulka through separate interactions.
His protocol is specific and repeatable: no alcohol, no substances. A full eight hours of sleep, followed by another hour in bed. Rise, take a tall glass of water, sit in morning sun on the porch. In that transitional, liminal state, Taylor says he receives what he calls downloads — structured technical information from what he refers to simply as “the beings” or “whoever,” deliberately avoiding the word alien. He reports having sustained contact with this source over many years, and attributes his patents in biomedical and spinal technology directly to these downloads.
The night before his first major invention arrived, Taylor told Cameron, the last thing he remembered was a hooded figure standing at the foot of his bed — a face he could not see. The company built on that invention reportedly sold for somewhere between 88 and 100 million dollars. His daughter once challenged him on the amount of time he spent in this research. Taylor’s response, as Cameron recounts it: “Just remember where the Lexus comes from.”
A 2007 encounter
A North Carolina man, Christopher Bledsoe, claims his life changed after a 2007 incident in which, during a moment of personal crisis, he encountered glowing red orbs and non-human entities in the woods. He says the experience involved missing time, visions of strange beings, and a luminous female figure, and that similar orb phenomena have appeared regularly over his home ever since. Despite facing ridicule, Bledsoe maintains that his case has drawn serious attention, alleging that agencies like NASA and researchers linked to intelligence and consciousness studies have examined both the sightings and his brain activity, finding no medical explanation. Over the years, he claims to have recorded thousands of sightings and believes he can even summon the phenomena through prayer, making his story one of the more persistent and controversial modern UAP encounter claims. More recently he’s said a divine entity gave him a specific cosmic warning about April 2026, and he claims the U.S. government took it seriously enough to deploy remote viewers.
A Pattern of Missing Scientists
In recent years, a small but widely discussed cluster of cases has drawn attention to scientists and researchers connected to institutions like NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) who have died unexpectedly or disappeared. Reports circulating since mid-2024 describe roughly six to eight individuals across aerospace, nuclear, and defence-related fields whose deaths or vanishings were, in some cases, sudden, unexplained, or lacking publicly disclosed details. Whilst possibly unrelated to occult activity its notable for its inexplicable nature.
Frank Maiwald was a prominent researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) who died in Los Angeles on July 4th, 2024 at the age of 61. Authorities confirmed they never performed an autopsy or ascertained a cause of death. NASA has never publicly commented on his passing.
Maiwald had been a prominent researcher at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) since 1999 and worked on multiple projects tied to advanced satellite technology that could scan Earth and other planets.
In June 2023, just 13 months before his death, he was the lead researcher on a breakthrough that could help future space missions detect clear signs of lifeon other worlds, including Jupiter’s moon Europa, Saturn’s moon Enceladus, or the dwarf planet Ceres.
Despite Maiwald being a JPL Principal – an award given to scientists ‘making outstanding individual contributions’ in their fields – NASA has never commented publicly on the scientist’s death, and the only public record marking his passing was an obituary posted online.
Meanwhile, another mysterious disappearance has come to light at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), one of America’s key nuclear research facilities, bringing the total number of unexplained incidents to eight since July 2024.
Anthony Chavez was a former worker at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nuclear research facility founded during the Manhattan Project, who disappeared without a trace on May 4th, 2025. No explanation. No resolution. Gone.
Monica Reza, a NASA scientist, disappeared while hiking in the Angeles National Forest on June 22nd, 2025. Two friends saw her thirty feet away. They looked back and she was gone. No trace.
Melissa Casias, an administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, vanished on June 26th, 2025. Both of her phones were found at home wiped clean after a factory reset.
Retired Major General Neil McCasland, who oversaw the Air Force’s $2.2 billion science and technology program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and was named in the 2016 Wikileaks emails as an advisor on UFO disclosure, walked out of his New Mexico home on February 27th, 2026 without his phone, wearable devices, or prescription glasses and has not been seen since.
Carl Grillmair, a 67-year-old astrophysicist, was shot and killed on his front porch at six in the morning on February 16th, 2026.
Jason Thomas, a pharmaceutical researcher testing cancer treatments at Novartis, was found dead in a lake in Wakefield, Massachusetts on March 17th, 2026 after disappearing three months earlier. Police said no foul play is suspected. His cause of death has still not been determined.
Senator Tim Burchett has warned that a string of deaths and disappearances involving figures tied to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, nuclear labs, the Air Force, and other sensitive programs may represent a serious national security threat. With at least eight individuals connected to classified research in advanced technology, energy, and alleged UFO-related work gone within a short timeframe, he argues this pattern is too concentrated to be coincidence. Critics say the lack of serious investigation or media scrutiny is alarming, suggesting that what appears to be isolated incidents may instead point to a coordinated effort being ignored at the highest levels.
Artemis Mission
NASA’s Artemis program, costing over $93 billion, in its current state is as a deeply inefficient system plagued by delays, contractor fraud, and a funding structure that rewards failure. Cost-plus contracts incentivize overruns, allowing companies to profit even from poor performance, while projects like the SLS rocket and Mobile Launcher 2 have ballooned in cost despite limited usefulness. At the same time, safety concerns—such as flaws in the Orion heat shield and failures in systems like Boeing’s Starliner—have reportedly been downplayed or overridden, while workforce cuts reduce internal oversight and accountability.
Conflicts of interest and broader structural issues further complicate the picture, with figures like Elon Musk linked to both auditing and contracting roles, and private companies operating with limited transparency. Some critics argue that misinformation and exaggerated conspiracy content muddy legitimate scrutiny, while others point to NASA’s overlap with military programs, including United States Space Force, as evidence that civilian space exploration may partly mask defense expansion.
The launch of Artemis on April 1, 2026, is portrayed by some as a wartime ritual, in the same vein of the Apollo 11 mission during the Vietnam war. Advertising for the mission resembled a movie trailer, and the intention to distract the public from the unfolding disaster in Iran was evident. The mission has now concluded and plans are being made for a lunar surface mission in 2028.
The safe return of the Artemis II is being celebrated as a significant milestone in humanity’s renewed push toward deep space exploration, demonstrating that crewed missions beyond low Earth orbit are once again viable after decades.
People still scratch their heads as to why now, in 2026 we have only just reattained the ability to fly around the moon, we aren’t currently able to land on it according to NASA scientists, as they destroyed the technology and records for some undisclosed reason after the Apollo Missions.
Almost immediately, the Artemis mission has been swept into a familiar wave of online speculation—ranging from doubts about onboard footage to broader claims about hidden agendas—highlighting how modern space achievements now unfold alongside a parallel digital landscape of conspiracy narratives and government distrust. Despite the hard sell, NASA appears to remain focused on its next objective: returning humans to the lunar surface through Artemis III, currently targeted for later this decade. The agency’s long-term vision purports to extend beyond a single landing, aiming to establish a sustained moon base on the Lunar surface and in orbit as a stepping stone toward future missions to Mars.
References
- Hoagland & Bara – Dark Mission – The Secret History of NASA (2007)
- Nick Redfern – FINAL EVENTS And The Secret Government Group On Demonic UFOs And The Afterlife (2011)
- Richard B Spence – Secret Agent 666 Aleister Crowley (2008)
- Aleister Crowley – The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1969)