Even Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland’s wife is making jokes about his mysterious disappearance.
McCasland, retired military, has been missing nearly two weeks from his Albuquerque, New Mexico home.
He apparently had no dementia and he left his cell phone behind.
McCasland, 68, once commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base – long rumored to house extraterrestrial debris linked to an alleged Roswell, New Mexico UFO crash in 1947.
Wright-Patterson has long been the subject of conspiracy theories, with many believing that debris or alien bodies from the crash were moved to a hangar at the Ohio base.
Debris found by a rancher in 1947 near Roswell has become the basis for UFO conspiracy theories alleging that the U.S. military recovered a downed extraterrestrial spaceship.
After metallic and rubber debris was recovered by Roswell Army Air Field personnel, the military announced it found a “flying disc.”
The announcement made international headlines – and was retracted within 24 hours.
Strange as it sounds, the general’s disappearance came just days after President Trump announced in a Truth Social post he was directing the Pentagon and other federal agencies to release government records related to extraterrestrial life and UFOs, according to CNN.
“I hope and pray this is not one of those cases where a former senior military officer was specifically targeted and that he will be found happy and healthy in the immediate near term for his sake and the sake of his loved ones,” Luis Elizondo, a former Department of Defense intelligence officer who now advocates for the release of classified information about UFOs, told CNN.
“Whether or not his disappearance had anything to do with any legacy involvement he may have had in UAP research, I prefer to allow law enforcement the necessary time to do their work before speculating,” Elizobdo added.
“It is true that Neil had a brief association with the UFO community,” McCasland’s wife, Susan McCasland Wilkerson, said in a Facebook post. “This connection is not a reason for someone to abduct Neil. Neil does not have any special knowledge about the ET bodies and debris from the Roswell crash stored at Wright-Patt.”
Wilkerson said her husband does not have dementia. “He was not confused and disoriented,” she said.
McCasland retired nearly 13 years ago, and Wilkerson said it “seems quite unlikely that he was taken to extract very dated secrets from him.”
Just the fact that people associated with the missing military officer are raising the possibility that he was abducted by aliens is absolutely remarkable.
“… Maybe the best hypothesis is that aliens beamed him up to the mothership,” Wilkerson said in her post. “However, no sightings of a mothership hovering above the Sandia Mountains have been reported.”
Wife of missing general joking about possible involvement of extraterrestrial beings in his disappearance.
Wrap your head around that one for just a moment…
The mysterious case of the ‘Missing UFO General’ makes for an avid following in Maine, which “consistently ranks among the top U.S. states for reported UFO sightings,” says RoadTripNewEngland.
The state places in the top five nationally for per-capita UFO reports, with many sightings involving unexplained lights or objects observed over coastal waters, forests, or remote inland areas.
The reports are not tied to a single region or event and span multiple years, suggesting a steady pattern rather than a sudden spike.