EXPRESS: Wife of missing Air Force general breaks silence on his mystery ‘UFO research’
Online sleuths believe they have uncovered the anonymous social media account of missing retired Air Force Gen. William Neil McCasland, an account that claimed another general was murdered over dealings with nuclear material, The New York Post reported.
McCasland, 68, was reported missing Feb. 27 from his Albuquerque, N.M., home. That same day, the person behind a conspicuously credentialed X account focused on spacecraft and advanced science made their final post.
The account, @tmbspaceships, claims to be operated by a “retired 38-year active duty” U.S. Air Force officer with a doctorate in engineering. The account lists the Air Force Institute of Technology, the Air Education and Training Command, and Air Force Materiel Command as former employers.
Both the Air Force Institute of Technology and Air Force Materiel Command are located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which McCasland commanded from 2011 to 2013. During his 34-year career, he attended the Air War College, which falls under the Air Education and Training Command. McCasland earned a doctorate in astronautical engineering from MIT in 1988.
Months before McCasland’s disappearance, the account made a startling claim: that Maj. Gen. John Rossi, whose 2016 death was ruled a suicide, was actually murdered after he refused to transfer nuclear material to private contractors.
Rossi, a two-star general, died by suicide two days before he was set to receive a third star and assume command of U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, according to Army Times. He was 55. Army investigators attributed his death by hanging to severe sleep deprivation and job-related anxiety, the outlet reported.
“Gen. Rossi was a good friend and it is my opinion he did not commit suicide,” the account wrote in a reply posted on Sept. 2, 2025.
“I believe Gen Rossi was killed because of a [sic] incident, reported to the pentagon IG [inspector general], that he would not transfer nuclear weapons to private hands, just months prior in an attempted Nuclear Weapons theft from Ft. Sill,” the post claimed.
“Gen. Rossi knew DOE takes all custody of nuclear weapons, not private contractors,” the post concluded.
Sources told The Post that McCasland was privy to some of the most closely held U.S. technology through his roles as commander of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, vice commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center, and director of Space Acquisition at the Pentagon.
“During his time he was one of the key gatekeepers for the UFO topic for the Air Force,” a source with knowledge of the matter told The Post. “He knew a lot, and he participated.”
WikiLeaks’ release of emails belonging to John Podesta, a former counselor to President Barack Obama, revealed that Blink-182 co-founder Tom DeLonge had been in contact with McCasland, who briefed him on UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
McCasland played an integral behind-the-scenes role in establishing the “I Miss You” singer’s To The Stars Academy, which featured an advisory board that included Steve Justice, a former director at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works; Hal Puthoff, a UFO researcher and physicist; and Luis Elizondo, a former Pentagon investigator of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
The search for the retired general has entered its second week, with investigators releasing an updated timeline of the day he disappeared.
McCasland was last seen by his wife, Susan, at 11:10 a.m. local time. She returned from a medical appointment at 12:04 p.m. to find the home empty, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office.
Susan McCasland is also a retired government physicist, a second lieutenant in the Air Force and a former military contractor, according to an online biography.
In a Facebook post one week after her husband’s disappearance, Susan McCasland suggested he may have been abducted by a UFO “mothership.”
“Though at this point with absolutely no sign of him, maybe the best hypothesis is that aliens beamed him up to the mothership,” she wrote March 6.
“However, no sightings of a mothership hovering above the Sandia Mountains have been reported,” she added.
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