By: EKO | X.com

Ten scientists connected to America’s most classified programs have died or vanished in ten months. No one is investigating all of them.

Her hands were small on the steering wheel.

Monica Jacinto Reza drove Angeles Crest Highway with the windows down and the morning air thinning as the road climbed. She was sixty years old, four feet eleven, a Materials and Processes Engineering Fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Before JPL she spent thirty years at Aerojet Rocketdyne, where she co-invented a nickel-cobalt-chromium-aluminum alloy called Mondaloy that solved a strategic dependency the United States Air Force had been testifying about under oath for a decade: the inability to build a rocket engine that didn’t rely on Russian combustion hardware.

She named the alloy after herself and her mentor.

Two syllables from Monica. Two from Dallis. The alloy suffix.

Mon-dal-oy.

She signed the trail register at Mount Waterman on June 22, 2025. Date. Destination. Party of two. She hiked with a guide. They reached the west ridge before ten. She waved. The guide returned the wave. Eight minutes later, she was gone.

The ridge was empty. The scree was undisturbed. No tracks. No broken branches. Nine counties searched. FLIR helicopters. K-9 units. Drones running pixel-matching algorithms for red fabric.

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