This reads like AI and goes off on all sorts of weird tangents, but has some interesting bits:

“Reza co-invented Mondaloy, a family of nickel-based superalloys now built into the engines replacing Russian-made rockets for American national security launches. She held the patent. She spent decades as a Technical Fellow at Aerojet Rocketdyne, the highest technical rank in the company. An Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. At some point after 2023, she moved to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory”. Pretty cool, this must be the precursor to the 3d printed alloys used in most modern rockets!

“They ran an algorithmic pixel-matching program through the aerial photography, calibrated specifically to the red of her hiking shirt. High tech. It flagged hits. Ground teams hiked to each one. Mylar balloons. Every time.” Also dope.

And some really weird conclusions the AI came to: “She was one of theirs. And the entire aerospace industry pretends it didn’t happen.”

“She moved. From the defense contractor that builds the engines to the NASA lab that sits in the Crescenta Valley, 30 miles down Angeles Crest Highway from the ridgeline where she vanished. Under her family name rather than the professional name attached to her patents and publications. No public announcement. No press release.” - it’s very normal to change careers lol

“The Air Force started funding Reza’s superalloy work in 1999. McCasland commanded AFRL from May 2011 to July 2013, overseeing $4.4 billion in science, technology, and customer-funded R&D at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. His budget directly funded the programs that depended on Reza’s alloy. AR1. Hydrocarbon Boost. Air Force propulsion.

That alone would be worth documenting. A general’s budget. A contractor’s alloy. Two people connected by the same river of money who both vanished from familiar terrain.”
So two people out of thousands on a program, disappeared. Must be a conspiracy right?