US EditionRetired Air Force Major General Missing for Weeks Once Led Wright-Patterson, an Ohio Base Steeped in Decades of UFO Theories
McCasland, who led the Air Force Research Laboratory, disappeared near a base known for advanced aerospace research and UAP investigations, drawing renewed public and official scrutiny.
- On February 27, retired Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland went missing from his Albuquerque home, prompting the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office to issue a Silver Alert and the FBI to join the search.
- McCasland previously commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio before retiring nearly 13 years ago with only commonly held security clearances.
- Investigators have canvassed nearly 600 homeowners while employing drones, K-9 units, and helicopters; the sheriff's office reported no evidence of foul play in the 68-year-old's disappearance.
- Susan McCasland Wilkerson is countering online conspiracy theories about her husband's health and UFO connections, clarifying he has no "special knowledge" regarding classified extraterrestrial debris.
- Sheriff John Allen is urging the public to review security footage and report information, as officials believe individuals possess valuable data about McCasland that has not yet reached law enforcement.
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Retired Air Force major general missing for weeks once led Wright-Patterson, an Ohio base steeped in decades of UFO theories
Wright-Patterson has played a central role in the US military’s real investigations into mysterious objects in the sky — from Cold War-era research programs to efforts to study what the government now calls unidentified aerial phenomena.
William Neil McCasland headed a research center that UFO theorists believe is related to extraterrestrial life.
Retired Air Force general now missing for two weeks, consulted on...
William McCasland's wife says dozens of searchers have found no indication of where the 68-year-old might be William "Neil" McCasland, a 68-year-old retired U.S. Air Force general, has been missing for almost two weeks. "There has been no indication whatsoever of where he might be," his wife, Susan McCasland Wilkerson, wrote in a Facebook post Friday. "There have been dozens of searchers on foot, both official and friends and neighbors of Neil's…
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