New Details Emerge In Disappearance Of Retired Air Force General Who Led Military Research Labs Connected To UFO Rumors

We have an update.

As WLT Report previously covered, retired Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland went missing in New Mexico on February 27.

McCasland, while serving in the Air Force, led the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

The lab has long been rumored to hold information on alien and UFO debris connected to the 1947 Roswell crash.

Now, new details have emerged revealing several important items from McCasland’s home are unaccounted for.

Fox News provided more on the missing items from his home:

Retired Air Force Major Gen. William “Neil” McCasland vanished within a one-hour window while his wife was out for an appointment, leaving behind his phone and glasses — while a gun and his wallet remain unaccounted for, according to authorities in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office released a new timeline Thursday evening describing the 68-year-old aerospace engineer’s last known movements, nearly two weeks after his disappearance and after the FBI joined the search effort.

He had an interaction with a home repairman around 10 a.m. on Feb. 27, the day he went missing.

Then he vanished between 11 a.m. and noon, while his wife was out of the house for an appointment. His phone, glasses and “wearable devices” were found in the home. His wallet, hiking boots and a .38-caliber revolver are unaccounted for.

Search teams found a US Air Force sweatshirt just over a mile from the home, but authorities have not confirmed it belonged to McCasland.

The sheriff’s office said he was last seen wearing a light green, button-up outdoor shirt with a button-down collar and two chest pockets.

The FBI has also joined the search:

FBI joins search for missing retired Air Force General with ties to UFO-linked military base https://t.co/vb6l63Snpy pic.twitter.com/ya9oXWqQbb

— New York Post (@nypost) March 3, 2026

NBC News provided quotes from McCasland’s wife regarding her husband’s disappearance:

Wilkerson, McCasland’s wife, tried to correct some misinformation that had been circulating. She wrote on Facebook last Friday that though her husband does have medical issues, it is not related to dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.

She then dissuaded those who might believe McCasland was taken because he had some kind of classified information.

“He retired from the [Air Force] almost 13 years ago and has had only very commonly held clearances since,” she wrote. “It seems quite unlikely that he was taken to extract very dated secrets from him.”

McCasland graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in astronautical engineering. He also has a doctorate in the subject from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to the Air Force.

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