Missing retired US Air Force general with ‘UFO community’ ties vanished with hiking boots and a revolver

A retired US Air Force general with ties to the UFO community who went missing two weeks ago vanished in New Mexico with his hiking boots and a revolver, authorities said.

Investigators have been searching for William “Neil” McCasland, 68, ever since his wife reported him missing from their Albuquerque home on Feb. 27 after she briefly ducked out for a medical appointment.

As the hunt stretched to the two-week mark, authorities released a new timeline of McCasland’s last known whereabouts and revealed some items, including the gun, were still unaccounted for.

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William “Neil” McCasland, a retired US Air Force general with ties to the UFO community who went missing two weeks ago, vanished with his hiking boots and a revolver.U.S. Air Force
On the morning of his disappearance, McCasland had briefly interacted with a handyman before his wife left to head off to an appointment, the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office said late Thursday.

When she returned an hour later, McCasland was gone.

“His phone, prescription glasses and wearable devices were located at the residence,” the sheriff’s office said.

McCasland’s wife alerted authorities after she’d reached out to family and friends to try to find him.

Following a search of his home, authorities said McCasland’s hiking boots, wallet and a .38-caliber revolver with a leather holster are believed to be missing.

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Investigators have been searching for McCasland ever since his wife reported him missing from their Albuquerque home on Feb. 27 after she briefly ducked out for a medical appointment.

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Following a search of his home, authorities said McCasland’s hiking boots, wallet and a .38-caliber revolver with a leather holster are believed to be missing.Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office
McCasland once led the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson base in Ohio, which is long rumored to hold extraterrestrial debris tied to the 1947 Roswell crash.

He was also a longtime leader at the Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico and had prior stints at the Pentagon before retiring in 2013.

His wife has since downplayed the UFO community ties as she sought to clear up so-called “misinformation” about her husband’s disappearance.

“Neil does not have any special knowledge about the ET bodies and debris from the Roswell crash stored at Wright-Patt,” she wrote on Facebook on March 6.

She did, however, confirm that McCasland had a “brief association” after his retirement with former Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge — who co-founded a company that studies information about unidentified aerial phenomena.

McCasland had been an unpaid consultant on military and scientific matters for the company, his wife said.