Gone Dark

Eleven people. Scientists. Engineers. A two-star general. All connected to the most classified corners of America's nuclear and aerospace programs. All gone in a window of four years. The FBI is investigating. Congress has launched a formal probe. And a memorial page was created for one of them before the search was even over. This is Gone Dark — an investigative podcast about the people who...

She was thirty feet behind him. He turned around. She was gone. Monica Reza spent nearly four decades building the rocket engine technology that powers America's most sensitive military satellites. She held a top security clearance. She knew things most people will never be cleared to know. And one morning on a California hiking trail, she simply ceased to exist. She is one of eleven — scient...

Three days. That is the gap between the President ordering the release of classified UFO files and the moment retired Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland walked out of his house and was never seen again. Before he disappeared, McCasland held oversight authority over every Unacknowledged Special Access Program in the Department of Defense — the programs whose existence the government doe...

She sent the text five weeks before she died. It read: if you see any report that I killed myself, I most definitely did not. Amy Eskridge was 34 years old, a plasma physicist and anti-gravity propulsion researcher in Huntsville, Alabama. She documented everything — the break-ins, the surveillance, the burns on her hands from what she believed was a directed energy weapon aimed at her through a wi...