Amy Eskridge — Institute for Exotic Science

Who Was Amy Eskridge?

Amy Catherine Eskridge was a 34-year-old interdisciplinary scientist based in Huntsville, Alabama — a city that sits at the heart of America's aerospace and defence research ecosystem, home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and a dense cluster of military and private space contractors. She graduated from the University of Alabama in Huntsville with a double major in chemistry and biology, and went on to develop expertise spanning electrical engineering, physics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology. She was, by the accounts of colleagues, energetic, impatient with bureaucracy, and comfortable crossing disciplinary boundaries in ways that made conventional institutions uneasy.

Her father, Richard H. Eskridge, was a retired NASA engineer who specialised in plasma physics and fusion technology — one of the most classified and strategically significant fields in modern science. He and Amy co-founded two ventures together: the Institute for Exotic Science, a public benefit corporation incorporated in Huntsville in 2018, and HoloChron Engineering, a company focused on gravity modification research and development. Richard served as the Institute's Chief Technology Officer.

What made Amy unusual — and, she would claim, what made her a target — was her stated intention to bring anti-gravity research into the open. In a field populated by researchers who either work classified programs or keep their findings private out of self-preservation, Eskridge was vocal, public, and determined to publish.

Her Work — What She Was Researching

Eskridge's primary research focus was anti-gravity propulsion — the manipulation or offsetting of gravitational forces to achieve lift or thrust without conventional fuel-based engines. The field sits in uncomfortable territory between established physics and what the defence establishment refers to as "exotic propulsion concepts." It is the kind of research that attracts both serious scientists and fringe actors, which makes it easy to dismiss — and potentially easy to suppress without scrutiny.

In December 2018, she delivered a presentation titled "A Historical Perspective on Anti-Gravity Technology" at the Huntsville Alabama L5 Society (HAL5), reviewing anti-gravity research from Thomas Townsend Brown's Gravitator device in the 1920s through to contemporary developments including the EM Drive. The original presentation document is publicly available at hal5.org. During the audience Q&A, colleagues noted that scientists in the field openly expressed fears of disappearing — a chilling detail that would later be seen in a different light.

Her academic work included research in Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), testing piezoelectric microcantilevers and gyroscopes, as well as non-viral polymeric drug delivery and gene therapy — a range of disciplines that gave her an unusually broad technical foundation for propulsion research that touches on materials science, electromagnetic fields, and biological effects.

In 2020, Eskridge publicly announced that she intended to present new foundational research on anti-gravity — but stated she required authorisation from NASA before she could do so. She never received that authorisation. She was dead less than two years later.

The Warnings She Made Before She Died

What separates Eskridge's case from a straightforward unexplained death is the documented record of warnings she made in the period before she died. These were not vague expressions of anxiety. They were specific, repeated, and recorded.

Prior to her death, Eskridge publicly stated that her life was in danger. She described a multi-year pattern of escalating harassment and intimidation she attributed to her research into anti-gravity technology. In a 2020 podcast interview, she said the threats had become "more and more aggressive."

She alleged that on at least one occasion, an unknown suspect fired a "directed energy weapon" at her — strong microwave radiation — causing burns across her body. She and retired British counter-intelligence officer Franc Milburn recorded numerous alleged incidents of physical and psychological attacks attributed to an unidentified party.

Milburn, who conducted an independent investigation into her death, later concluded that Eskridge had not committed suicide. He stated his belief that someone was deliberately targeting her work: "It was either one of two main objectives. One, trying to get her to desist from doing the work, and two — to actually stop her, to debilitate her so she was unable to do the work."

These concerns were taken seriously enough that Milburn eventually presented his findings to congressional officials. The findings have not been adopted or acted upon by any authority.

The Circumstances of Her Death

New Evidence — Texts, Video and Surveillance (April 2026)

In April 2026, as the broader cluster of scientist deaths gained national attention, previously private communications and video footage involving Eskridge surfaced publicly for the first time. Taken together they represent the most detailed documented account of her stated fears in the weeks before her death.

The Text — 13 May 2022. A text message sent by Eskridge to Franc Milburn on 13 May 2022 — exactly 29 days before she was found dead — was published by the Daily Mail and independently verified by multiple outlets. In full, it read: "If you see any report that I killed myself, I most definitely did not. If you see any report that I overdosed myself, I most definitely did not. If you see any report that I killed anyone else, I most definitely did not." Milburn told NewsNation he spoke with Eskridge by phone just hours before her death and noticed nothing unusual in her demeanour.

The Video — One Month Before Death. A newly surfaced video recorded approximately one month before Eskridge's death shows her in visible distress, filming her own hands and stating they had been "burned to hell and back" by what she described as a directed energy weapon. She told the camera: "You can get a 3D image of what I'm typing. This computer doesn't have a Wi-Fi card. You can't hack it. But you can beam me." The footage shows her blocking a window with material and stating her body immediately relaxed once the window was covered.

The Device. Eskridge texted Milburn that a former CIA weapons consultant on her team had examined her burned hands and the window pane and identified the probable device as an "RF k-band emitter" — a radio-frequency microwave weapon — powered by five car batteries and operated from inside an SUV parked near her residence. She shared photographs of the burns on her hands.

The Surveillance — Eastern European Man in a Lexus. In separate recorded testimony, Eskridge described being followed by a Lexus driven by a man she described as Eastern European. The vehicle used non-local cardboard temporary dealer plates that changed almost daily. In one incident her former partner called an Uber, and the Lexus that had been parked across the street for days pulled up as the ride — the licence plate matched the Uber app but the vehicle had no Uber branding. She noted the driver lived directly across from her apartment and changed the plates in plain sight after she mentioned taking a photograph.

Congressional Response. Republican Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri stated publicly in April 2026 that there is "SIGNIFICANT evidence Amy Eskridge was targeted by a Directed Energy Weapon" using microwave energy, and linked her symptoms to what intelligence officers describe as Havana Syndrome — the unexplained neurological condition reported by CIA and State Department personnel across multiple countries since 2016.

Her Father's Position. Richard Eskridge, Amy's father and former NASA Marshall plasma physicist, has consistently stated he does not believe his daughter's death was suspicious. He told NewsNation: "Scientists die also, just like other people." Former FBI special agent-in-charge Andrew Black responded: "The fact that her parents may feel that she did commit suicide doesn't mean the other things she reported weren't true. Maybe these things contributed to her taking her life. We don't know. And that's why it's great the FBI is investigating this."

The 2019 Presentation Footage. Video from Eskridge's 2019 public presentation has circulated widely showing two men appearing to interrupt her talk in a manner observers interpret as a warning. Eskridge visibly hesitates before continuing. The interpretation remains contested and has not been verified by any official body, but its circulation has contributed significantly to public demand for answers.

What Was Presented to Congress

Eskridge's case did not remain in online forums. It reached federal lawmakers directly.

Independent investigators, including Franc Milburn, compiled their findings and presented them to congressional officials. Their conclusion was that the official ruling of suicide was incorrect and that Eskridge had been murdered.

During a public hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), journalist Michael Shellenberger testified that Eskridge was "murdered by a 'private aerospace company' in the US because she was involved in the UAP conversation." This testimony was given under the formal procedures of a congressional hearing — it is part of the public record.

No law enforcement agency has publicly adopted these conclusions. No charges have been filed. The official ruling of suicide has not been changed by any authority. The congressional testimony stands on the record alongside the official ruling — unresolved.

The Huntsville Context — Why Location Matters

Huntsville, Alabama is not a random location. It is one of the most concentrated nodes of classified aerospace and defence research in the United States. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center — the facility responsible for developing the Saturn V rocket engines that powered the Apollo missions — is based there. The city is home to Redstone Arsenal, a US Army installation that has housed classified weapons and propulsion research since World War II. The area hosts hundreds of defence contractors and is deeply embedded in the US military-industrial research complex.

It is also the location where physicist Dr. Ning Li conducted DoD-funded anti-gravity research at the University of Alabama in Huntsville before departing in 1999 to found AC Gravity LLC — and subsequently disappearing from public view before being revealed to have suffered severe brain damage after being struck by a vehicle in 2014. She died in 2021.

Eskridge was aware of this history. She was operating in a city where exotic propulsion research had previously attracted Department of Defense funding and where researchers who pursued it had, in at least one documented prior case, vanished from public life under unexplained circumstances.

Why Her Case Is Being Scrutinised Now

Eskridge died in 2022 — before the cluster of deaths and disappearances that forms the core of this series. Her case predates Michael David Hicks (July 2023) by more than a year. For three years it attracted limited mainstream attention, known primarily in UAP research circles and the independent investigation community.

What brought it back into focus in April 2026 was the emergence of the broader pattern — ten other individuals linked to NASA, nuclear research, anti-gravity, and classified defence programs, dead or missing across a four-year window. As journalists and researchers mapped the cluster, Eskridge's case was added as the eleventh: a researcher who had explicitly warned she was being targeted, who worked in a field directly adjacent to UAP disclosure, whose father was a retired NASA plasma physicist, and whose death was ruled a suicide with no public investigation record and no surviving physical evidence.

President Trump, asked about the cluster of cases in April 2026, said: "I hope it's random, but we're going to know in the next week and a half. Pretty serious stuff."

The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration confirmed it was looking into the broader pattern. No findings specific to Eskridge's case have been released.