Missing and dead UAP-linked scientists list expands to thirteen

The list of United States nuclear, aerospace and UAP-linked scientists under congressional and FBI scrutiny expanded from eleven to thirteen in late April 2026, with Representative Eric Burlison flagging two additional names: former Air Force intelligence officer Matthew James Sullivan, who died at his Falls Church, Virginia home on 12 May 2024 weeks before scheduled congressional testimony, and physicist Dr Ning Li, the University of Alabama in Huntsville antigravity researcher who received approximately 449,000 US dollars in Department of Defense funding before her work and outputs disappeared from public view. Newsweek reported the expanded count on 25 April 2026. Breitbart, the Gateway Pundit and the Union Bulletin carried follow-up coverage on 26 April. The Sullivan addition follows Burlison's 16 April letter to FBI Director Kash Patel raising suspicious circumstances around the Sullivan overdose ruling. The Li addition is contested in open-source reporting: Li died on 27 July 2021 from Alzheimer's disease following a 2014 vehicle collision, and inclusion rests on the missing record of the DOD-funded antigravity work rather than the manner of her death. The expansion arrives two days before the 27 April deadline set by Chairman James Comer and Burlison for staff-level briefings from the FBI, NASA, the Department of War and the Department of Energy.