Disappearance of Retired U.S. Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland in Albuquerque Sparks UFO and National-Security Theories
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William Neil McCasland, a retired U.S. Air Force major general who led the Air Force Research Laboratory, oversaw GPS work, and served as executive secretary for the Special Access Program Oversight Committee, disappeared after a February 27 trail run in Albuquerque, leaving his phone, glasses, wallet, and a .38 revolver behind while his hiking boots stayed at home, a case that has spurred FBI-led searches and broad speculation about classified programs and unidentified aerial phenomena linked in part to Tom DeLonge, who says McCasland helped assemble his advisory team, as his wife Susan McCasland Wilkerson denies extraterrestrial ties while investigators weigh personal emergency versus security or espionage factors.