Did Cole Allen Work at NASA in 2014? And Did a 2023 "Henry Martinez" Tweet Predict the Shooting?

VERDICT: ALL THREE FACTS ARE TRUE – but the conspiracy conclusion they fuel is unverified and almost certainly false.

Let’s break down each claim separately.

Claim 1 – Cole Allen worked at NASA in 2014: TRUE

Allen’s LinkedIn profile states that in the summer of 2014, he landed a competitive spot as a summer undergraduate research student fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He reportedly worked on AI models for planet mapping during that internship. This detail is consistent with his academic timeline. He enrolled at Caltech in 2013 and graduated in 2017.

Claim 2 – NASA published a 2014 paper by a “Henry Martinez”: TRUE

NASA’s official Technical Reports Server lists a 2014 conference paper titled “Testing Orion’s Fairing Separation System,” with Henry Martinez of Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. in Denver, Colorado, listed as one of the authors. The paper was published on May 1, 2014.

Claim 3 – An X account named “Henry Martinez” posted only “Cole Allen” in 2023: TRUE

A social media user on X named Henry Martinez posted a single tweet containing only the words “Cole Allen.” The tweet was posted in 2023 and is the only post on the account, which uses a Pepe avatar. The post is dated December 21 or 22, 2023, depending on the visible time zone. The account’s header image is reportedly from a website called “Time Machine,” which added further fuel to online speculation.

So is there a real connection?

The NASA record only confirms that a person named Henry Martinez authored a NASA-hosted technical paper. It does not confirm that the same person owned the X account. Authorities have found no evidence connecting the X account to the suspect or to the shooting.

Experts note that inactive accounts with random posts are fairly common, and coincidences involving common names can easily appear suspicious in hindsight. Both “Cole Allen” and “Henry Martinez” are ordinary American names.

Summary: All three individual facts check out. Cole Allen did intern at NASA in 2014. A Henry Martinez did author a NASA paper that year. An X account under that name did post “Cole Allen” in 2023. But no verified link connects these three dots. The FBI investigation is ongoing, and no authority has suggested a conspiracy. This is a striking coincidence – not confirmed foreknowledge.