The deaths and disappearances of eleven top scientists have mystified the nation, with President Donald Trump and senior members of Congress demanding answers and vowing to uncover whether the cases are connected.
Now, chilling claims have come to light about the death of Amy Eskridge, a 34-year-old researcher working on anti-gravity technology, who was found with a gunshot to the head.
She died in Huntsville, Alabama, on June 11, 2022, and her death was ruled a suicide. But four years on, newly uncovered text messages raise chilling questions about what really happened.
Franc Milburn, a retired British paratrooper and intelligence officer who claims to have been in contact with Eskridge before her death, shared messages he says she sent him.
One dated May 13, 2022, read: ‘If you see any report that I killed myself, I most definitely did not. If you see any report that I overdosed, I most definitely did not. If you see any report that I killed anyone else, I most definitely did not.’
Milburn told the Daily Mail that Eskridge – as well as some of her colleagues involved in advanced propulsion and energy research – had been subjected to what he described as a sustained campaign of harassment and intimidation designed to derail their work.
He also said he spoke with the young scientist just four hours before her death and noticed nothing unusual.
‘She said, “Everything’s fine, Franc, I’m feeling okay.” She sent me, and others, emails and LinkedIn messages saying, ‘If anything happens to me – suicide or an accident – it wasn’t, it’s suspicious, treat it as such,’ Milburn claimed.
Eskridge also purportedly told Milburn she believed she had been the target of repeated physical and psychological attacks – claims he says he documented and is now making public.
Amy Eskridge reportedly took her own life on June 11, 2022. However, the scientist claimed her life had been repeatedly threatened because of her work with anti-gravity tech
Milburn shared multiple messages he had with Eskridge, who expressed concern about being targeted for her work
Former British intelligence officer Franc Milburn revealed text messages he said Eskridge sent one month before her death
Among the allegations, Milburn claimed Eskridge reported injuries she believed were caused by what he described as a ‘directed energy weapon,’ a device said to emit focused energy capable of causing burns or other physical harm.
Eskridge shared images in text messages to Milburn, apparently showing her hands, feet, neck and back with burns and lesions after allegedly being struck by this weapon.
He claimed that images even appeared to show a scorch mark on Eskridge’s home window, where the ‘energy weapon’ allegedly passed and struck her while she was working on her laptop.
On May 19, 2022, Milburn says Eskridge messaged him to say that a member of her research lab with advanced weapons experience was convinced a directed energy weapon had caused her injuries.
‘My ex-CIA weapons guy on my team saw my hands when they were burned really badly a couple months ago, and he saw that window pane in person,’ she wrote.
‘He said he had built things like that, and that it was most likely an RF k-band emitter run by five car batteries strung together from inside an SUV.’
Eskridge then allegedly claimed that this expert believed the most likely party capable of carrying out such an attack was a US-based contractor or company seeking to prevent the scientist from completing an important piece of research for the government.
The scientist had founded her own research lab and was trying to develop anti-gravity technology, a way to control or cancel out gravity, which could revolutionize space travel and energy production.
Eskridge was working on research for a way to control or cancel out gravity, which could revolutionize space travel and energy production, before her death
Milburn shared text messages he said Eskridge sent one before her death that include disturbing allegations
Eskridge messaged Milburn to say that a member of her research lab with advanced weapons experience was convinced a directed energy weapon had caused her injuries
Milburn shared a picture, which he claims shows Eskridge’s hands burned and discolored after allegedly being struck by an ‘energy weapon’
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Richard Eskridge, the woman’s father and a former NASA scientist who worked on fusion propulsion, has refuted claims that his daughter’s death was suspicious.
‘Scientists die also, just like other people,’ Eskridge told NewsNation while declining to comment further.
In a statement to CNN, Eskridge’s family said she was a ‘marvelously intelligent person’ who suffered from ‘chronic pain.’
Reiterating her father’s statement, they added: ‘People should realize that scientists die also and not make too much of this.’
Eskridge and her father co-founded The Institute for Exotic Science, which focused on so-called speculative research, including the creation of gravity-defying engines.
The scientist said that she specifically co-founded her research company to create a ‘public-facing persona to disclose anti-gravity technology.’
Eskridge said during the podcast: ‘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,’ she warned.
Following Eskridge’s death, Milburn launched his own investigation and identified what he described as a troubling timeline that he believes left little time for authorities to fully rule out foul play.
‘Why was she cremated so quickly? She phoned me four hours before she died, then she dies, then a few hours later, on the Saturday when she died, she has an autopsy, and then on the Sunday, she’s cremated,’ Milburn said.
‘After she died, her co-workers and her friends, people she’d worked with, they came forward anonymously and said to me, “yeah, look, we were attacked, we were roofied, my house was broken into, my car tires were slashed,”‘ he claimed.
Milburn shared what he said was a scorch mark on Eskridge’s window
Other images sent by Eskridge revealed strange injuries including discolored and burned hands and bloody skin
Eskridge revealed the alleged attacks also caused burns filled with fluid under her skin
‘So this wasn’t just random events, this was happening to her and people around her, and she was introducing me to the people that it was happening to.’
Before her death, the scientist claimed she had been the target of disturbing attempts to drug her and push her into taking her own life.
This included alleged break-ins at her apartment, cars following her, strangers approaching her in bars with intimate knowledge of her life, attempts to roofie her drinks and threats of sexual violence against her.
On some occasions, Eskridge alleged that someone managed to roofie her drink before a crowd of strangers gathered around her and began asking about her secret scientific projects while she was disoriented.
‘A group of anywhere between two to six people will walk into a location, usually about 30 [minutes] after I sit down,’ the scientist purportedly told Milburn in a May 11, 2022, text message.
Lesions also developed after Eskridge claimed she had been struck by a directed energy weapon
Milburn said that Eskridge told him that she had received: ‘A s*** load of anonymous messages. Offering advice on how to kill myself. Phrased as these crazy, creepy rhymes’
‘Then the whole group will take turns one at a time rotating through the empty seat next to me, repeatedly asking me the same questions over and over again,’ she is said to have told Milburn on May 11, 2022.
‘I deflect one, then the next one sits down. They even all use the same opening line between them all, as if they all read the same briefing materials.’
Eskridge alleged that her apartment had been broken into on at least three occasions, with an unknown intruder leaving clear signs someone had been there, including cutting her phone charger, closing windows and leaving her lingerie on the floor.
In a 2020 podcast interview, Eskridge detailed a plan for the public disclosure of UFOs and extraterrestrials, but feared the threats against her were growing more and more dire.
She said: ‘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.’
Franc Milburn is a former British intelligence officer who says he was in contact with Eskridge prior to her death
She also began to receive threatening phone calls from unidentified individuals who allegedly tried to convince her to take her own life, Millburn claimed.
Milburn said that Eskridge then told him that she had received: ‘A s*** load of anonymous messages. Offering advice on how to kill myself. Phrased as these crazy, creepy rhymes, like: “Take your pills and overdose and this will go away, take your pills and overdose and it will be OK.”‘
Millburn said Eskridge even suspected that some of her former boyfriends were actually ‘handlers’ sent from intelligence agencies or other groups monitoring her work, claiming the men would suddenly disappear and become unreachable after exactly six months.
In her texts, she also appeared to reference the 2010 shooting of three people at the University of Alabama’s Huntsville campus, claiming without evidence that convicted shooter Amy Bishop was not responsible for the killings of Drs Gopi Podila, Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson.
Bishop pleaded guilty to the killings in 2012 and is serving a life sentence. She later claimed medication she was taking at the time of the shooting had altered her brain chemistry, but the appeal was denied.
Eskridge added in a text to Milburn that she believed the 2021 death of Mark McCandlish, an illustrator and ufologist, was also not a suicide, as it has been reported.
‘I would give a lot of credence to her. There’s gonna be people saying she’s delusional, she’s this or that, just follow the facts,’ Milburn said.
Milburn claimed he put Eskridge in touch with the FBI regarding the growing frequency of incidents and the potential use of a directed energy weapon on US soil, but said the case was later dropped by the agency.
Milburn shared disturbing messages he said he received from Eskridge, claiming she had been targeted by people in public
Milburn shared a picture he said showed Eskridge sitting in her home – near the window which she claimed was scorched by an ‘energy weapon’
Milburn’s private investigation concluded that the 34-year-old had been ‘murdered by a ‘private aerospace company’ in the US because she was involved in the UAP conversation.’
Milburn also declared: ‘I am not suicidal or contemplating suicide and if anything happens to me, like an accident or other suspicious event, then it should be fully investigated as suspicious.’
The former intelligence officer’s findings were brought before a congressional hearing in 2023 that was examining Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, the new term for UFOs.
Journalist Michael Shellenberger cited Eskridge’s case in writing, along with the rest of his testimony addressing incidents of government retaliation against UAP whistleblowers such as Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch.
Congressman Eric Burlison of Missouri told Fox News that Shellenberger has spoken to House members regarding the case. Lawmakers are seeking an investigation by the FBI into multiple deaths and disappearances among America’s scientific community.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Eskridge’s family as well as medical officials in Huntsville for comment on the circumstances surrounding her death.
