Trump says will have ‘pretty good answer’ over missing scientists

US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he expects to have a "pretty good answer" soon regarding the mysterious deaths and disappearances of several US scientists with top-secret ties to space and nuclear research.

Since 2023, at least eight people mostly involved in researching space and nuclear science have died or gone missing, with some cases occurring under unclear or suspicious circumstances.

Asked whether these incidents are connected or random, Trump said: “I hope it's random, but we're going to know in the next week and a half. I just left the meeting on that subject.”

“So pretty serious stuff…Hopefully, I don't know, a coincidence, whatever you want to call it. But some of them were very important people, and we're going to look at it over the next short period.”

“As far as the scientists are concerned, we’ll probably have a pretty good answer over the next week,” he told reporters at the White House.