Amy’s Disclosure Launchpad: Part Two

Courtney Marchesani
9 min readSep 8, 2024

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“The term antigravity is a gross misnomer.” — Amy Eskridge

After insiders learned about Amy’s passing, one of the immediate, audible accusations was that the U.S. couldn’t protect its scientists. In Huntsville no less. In the Silicon Valley of the South. When concerned friends queried local law enforcement about Amy’s death in the days that followed, there were categorical denials from the local Huntsville sheriff’s office, the Alabama Bureau of Investigation (ABI), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The official line was, “There is no investigation.” A coroner was present and ruled her death a suicide. A witness reported the shot trajectory came downward, which is not consistent with suicide. The gun was in her left hand. Amy was right-handed. The shot residue was all wrong. A neighbor heard her scream for help. Then she heard the fatal shot.

There were other concerns too. Who was closest to Amy in her final moments? In her own words, she was “surrounded by CIA SRI plants.” One can’t fault her paranoia. When the hydrogen bomb inventor’s best friend appears and requests work at your institute, you get suspicious. When Hal Puthoff comes for drinks and apple pie, you get suspicious. When Jeremy Corbell is introduced, you get suspicious. When a mysterious man posing as an FBI agent calls your business partner to ask if he’s sleeping with you, well, you get suspicious. Rightfully, she was paranoid. Looking back, the steep increase and level of paranoia is alarming. Were the blaring alarms signaling something sinister? Or were they symptomatic of a mind in distress?

Can we ever see into Amy’s world as it truly existed? This confounding question becomes the underpinning sewn beneath different perspectives of Amy Eskridge. Mad scientist. Lover. Visionary. Friend. Disrupter. Investigators are familiar with this kind of elaborate tapestry. The embroidery of someone’s life must be unwoven with delicate, careworn hands. It’s like an editor sifting through parts of an autobiography; their critical eye examining every word, sentence, and structure, deciding what to keep or discard. The writer feels these painful cuts. When an inept surgeon carves deeply into the precious flesh, we bleed.

Some questions subsume the critical investigator’s journey into the life of Amy Eskridge. I’ve heard the beat poet masters and read the James McElroy American Tabloid version. Most researchers and true crime pundits have focused primarily on Amy’s last year. It’s easy to get lost in the shocking last moments of her life and lose sight of her total lived experience, experiences that would not only inform the casual observer of her extraordinary being, but the Arthurian quest she lived. At times, she professed that her birth to the technical lead of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) was a total accident. At others, her sarcasm masked the wonderment at her station. A skeptical, “Why me?” Whether you believe in predeterminism or not, the evidence begins to mount that Amy was destined to disclose a breakthrough that would move modern science and UAP/UFO disclosure forward. She was also a UAP/UFO experiencer. No small fact but it gets eclipsed by her brilliance.

Her brilliance appeared at an early age. Amy’s middle school science fair project granted her an Army internship. Her early recruitment into the Army Weapons Science Directorate led to dual degrees in biology and chemistry. For a decade she explored biotechnology, including recombinant protein engineering, quantum chemistry, and gene therapy. She described herself as an expert in biotechnology and bioscience. She introduced herself using the shortened version, “I’m a biology chemist, biotechnologist from Huntsville.” This background fits with her work in Army Medical Research and Development (MRDC). It doesn’t make sense when examining claims that she had the sixth force, antigravity, “in lockdown.” Yet, her history of electrical and mechanical engineering might.

To a UAP/UFO researcher, Amy looks like a few other luminaries we might recognize as “polymath.” She identified as autistic and it appeared that her deep focus on special interests enabled multiple fields of expertise. She then applied that knowledge to an already broad skill set. She was working towards a PhD in biotechnology and bioscience engineering. So why did she make such a life-altering leap to aerospace engineering? She had an extensive history in biomedical research for the military. She also helped launch two Saturn rockets, worked on subway systems assessing vulnerabilities for terrorism, and was affiliated with DOD, DARPA, and DHS. Various intelligence agencies were interested in her work. Ultimately, Amy pushed the boundaries of one of aerospace’s biggest engineering enigmas, antigravity.

Four months ago, when I picked Amy’s case back up after two years, I first asked friends, “Where’s Amy’s white paper?” During Amy’s public-facing quest to bring antigravity into the “white world” she was embroiled in private conflicts. Five years ago, Amy went on record that she had mathematical proofs for the sixth force. At the time, she claimed the extraordinary, “… which my group has a mathematical equation to physically describe.”

She called it, Antigravity, and then explained why scientifically the antigravity moniker was a misnomer.

Her vision for disclosure included a media plan (Tucker Carlson), a documentary (Steven Greer), and most importantly open publication of her white paper (Archive.com). She wanted to use open source. She planned to establish her credibility for several months before the launch of the media campaign. Then push her media campaign with a blast radius big enough to upend traditional notions of antigravity science. Not only did Amy have a vision for her disclosure, but she also felt she needed to beat an imagined doomsday disclosure clock.

One can’t help noticing Amy’s first reference to Galileo in her institute’s intro video. Amy’s historical breakdown of scientific advancement in the last four hundred years introduces Galileo as a progenitor of the Space Race. When I think of Amy’s dynasty in Huntsville, which she may have felt was very much like Galileo’s in Pisa, the Eskridge legacy comes into focus. Amy represented that legacy. She was the next generation of hope to complete their science. The Eskridge family may have wanted Amy to drive their science forward (both of her parents worked at NASA). Amy explained, “I did a decade in biotech now I’m back in antigravity.” Richard Eskridge appeared to have faith in his daughter for this baton pass. Amy looked ready to run the science across the finish line. A line that looked a lot like the exclusive “Estes Park” conference.

If successful, these bold moves would cement their family legacy in Huntsville and reinvigorate Space Race 4.0 against titans such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the newly minted Space Force (USG). The Institute of Exotic Science was their incubator, and it would showcase her engineering talent. It was also to provide a stable funding source for breakthrough scientific inventors and serve as a safe place to mature science in a public benefit company rather than the black world of R&D.

To understand Amy’s untimely death, look at the facts. Amy’s institute launched talks and presentations at Huntsville’s Hal 5, a trip to Los Angeles to meet Lady Rocket of Copernic Space, and initial seed money of $500k by angel investors. This momentum led to an invitation to the exclusive Estes Park Conference of Advanced Propulsion. The Estes Park Conference is a private gathering dedicated to Jim Woodard the father of the “Mach Effect.” This conference was part of Amy and her new business partner Mark Sokol’s joint venture for disclosure. Mark Sokol was co-founder of Falcon Space along with Aiden Shaffer. Falcon Space appeared a fitting partner for this endeavor as their stated mission was, “Developing new propulsion technologies based on Dynamic Nuclear Orientation inspired by the work of Frederic and David Alzofon.” Alzofon is an aerospace scientist and a legendary figure in optics, heat conduction, and gravity control research.

Amy and Mark planned to go to the Estes Park Conference to introduce key concepts of antigravity and drive their disclosure plan. This milestone in Amy’s make-a-splash disclosure timeline is where everything goes to shit.

In September 2020, before the Estes Park Conference, Amy appeared trapped between two worlds. In one she was a highly credible co-founder of the institute with her father, Richard, and both were championing their antigravity breakthrough into white-world science. In the other, Amy was living in a terrifying episode of Black Mirror fighting her competitors, foreign state actors, and an unknown criminal element. In her communications, with friends working to discover who the criminal element might be Amy shared,

“I dunno, that’s the most likely culprit according to my ex-CIA guy and the Ret General I work with who ran counterterrorism for STRATCOM. So, they are both coming from experience with these types of issues, they are familiar with the technical details of my work, and they personally know me. They both think it’s a private industrial source who has hired contractors to follow me around and harass me and have left a trail of breadcrumbs to make me think it’s Russia. That’s their assessment. It’s really not good over here right now.”

Amy’s circle of friends, associates, and trusted advisors knew of her impending disclosure plan. Amy felt her internal disclosure clock pushing her to use her science to beat Redstone Arsenal to the disclosure punch. She was driving her transition from the black world of R&D, into the white light of truth as fast as she could. What she didn’t know at the time, was how hard the hammer would drop. She didn’t see NASA’s powerful reach. If her quest at this juncture was akin to an Arthurian legend, she was less Guinevere and more Dindrane, the “Grail heroine.” NASA’s interference in her Estes Park appearance marred Amy’s last two years in Huntsville as the antigravity heroine. There were administrative challenges, personal threats and intimidations, and harassment. Her attention shifted from antigravity to what she determined were directed energy weapons (DEW) attacks against herself, family, and friends.

Whether her death was a suicide or a homicide we may never know. As of this writing, two sources confirm there are active investigations into the cause of her death despite a coroner ruling it a suicide. One such investigation within the intelligence community indicates there was foul play in the IC agents and officers who surrounded her. At this stage, what is conclusive are the players, partners, and bad actors involved in her accelerated disclosure plan. What is also conclusive is the circular reporting and inconsistencies in their stories.

A recent interview with a witness who worked with Falcon Space brings a darker tone which may have been a foreshadowing of Amy’s decision to pull out of the Estes Park conference. As the witness was riding with Mark Sokol, the witness overheard Mark’s call from a man identifying himself as an FBI agent. He asked a series of questions, posing them as an investigation. At the end of the call, he asked Mark if he was in a relationship with Amy, if they were having sex. Mark abruptly ended the call and called a well-known futurist in the UAP community.

Several sources have shared texts, documents, and public statements by Amy. She was working to get a NASA paper approved before the Estes Park Conference. Several of Amy’s comments after The Institute of Exotic Sciences pulled out of the conference have been shared by both Amy’s critics and her supporters,

“Yes, I regret that I was unable to present the topic I had planned to. The theory and substantiating data I was planning to present is based on novel foundational work that was generated originally by a member of our team while a civil servant at NASA MSFC. This work has since been further matured privately by The Institute. The foundational work done at NASA must first be approved by NASA for public release via their IP release mechanism before we can talk about our subsequent results publicly. A paper is currently under review by NASA for publication. We have hoped it would be approved in time to discuss here, but it is currently in the home stretch of publication. I expect it to be published within the next 30 days and I will be happy to distribute the publication to the group once it comes out.”

The next two years of Amy’s life become a struggle for survival. She begins to experience strange medical symptoms, members of her board are kidnapped and roofied, damaging photos of her fiancé are sent to her as a threat, her white paper never makes it into the light of day, her notebooks are stolen, and her friends and family suffer irreparable harm. They’re harmed by a nightmarish element that they fight until the end of Amy’s life. Some claim this element continues to hold impending danger over them and maintains a troubling silence.

If Amy’s paper ever does come into the white world, her science will bear out whether her antigravity research was legitimate. If it was real and replicable may provide clues into her death. Alternatively, the advanced directed energy weapons she believed she was being attacked by could have also pushed her family into a crisis designed to distract their focus or to publish their results. They surely had to apply an all-hands-on-deck approach to ensure their daughter’s wellbeing and their safety. As UAP/UFO researchers like to say, “If there’s a there, there” Amy’s legacy will hopefully live on. Her quest as the fair Dindrane may have been realized with her maturation of her father’s science. But, as Amy prophesized, “We’re the biggest place no one’s ever heard of.” The future may tell. If there is any mercy in the Eskridge family tragedy, may Amy be remembered for what she discovered. May she be remembered for the breakthrough and how it will change our society, for a public benefit, just like the mission her institute intended.

Part Three: Triumvirate of UAP Truth, Russians, and Deadly Larpers

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Courtney Marchesani

M.S., Mind-Body Medicine, Author Four Gifts of the HIghly Sensitive