Officials Trying To Discredit Links Between General’s Disappearance And His Ufo Work

Officials and nan woman of retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen.William “Neil” McCasland have deed backmost astatine speculation linking his disappearance to past UFO investigation and activity pinch a personnel of stone set Blink-182.

McCasland, 68, went missing connected February 27 aft leaving his Albuquerque location connected ft astir 11 a.m., according to nan Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office. The avid outdoorsman near down his cellphone, medicine glasses, and wearable devices. His hiking boots, wallet and a .38-caliber revolver successful a leather holster, meanwhile, were missing. Authorities besides reported uncovering a U.S. Air Force sweatshirt astir a mile from his home, though it has not been confirmed arsenic belonging to him. A Silver Alert and a multi-agency hunt that now includes nan FBI.

Interest successful nan lawsuit has grown, successful part, because of McCasland’s past ties to nan UFO investigation community. His wife, Susan McCasland Wilkerson, said that relationship has fueled online misinformation, and denied that he had classified aliases master knowledge astir extraterrestrials aliases UFO programs. McCasland antecedently led nan Air Force Research Laboratory astatine Wright-Patterson Air Force Base successful Greene County, Ohio, a tract which conspiracy theorists person agelong linked to nan 1947 Roswell incident.

“Neil does not person immoderate typical knowledge astir nan ET bodies and debris from nan Roswell clang stored astatine Wright-Patt,” Wilkerson wrote connected a March 6 Facebook post.

Wilkerson besides addressed her husband’s little post-retirement activity arsenic an unpaid advisor for Tom DeLonge, nan Blink-182 frontman who founded nan statement To The Stars, which produces books, music, and documentaries exploring unidentified aerial phenomena. After governmental strategist John Podesta's emails were publically posted connected WikiLeaks, astatine slightest 1 of which mentioned McCasland, NBC reports, “there was little interaction pinch Tom” and nan UFO community, Wilkerson said.

“This relationship is not a logic for personification to abduct Neil,” she continued.

“Though astatine this constituent pinch perfectly nary motion of him, possibly nan champion presumption is that aliens beamed him up to nan mothership,” she added successful nan post. “However, nary sightings of a mothership hovering supra nan Sandia Mountains person been reported.”

Meanwhile, nan Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office continues an extended hunt for McCasland, deploying rescue teams, dogs, drones and helicopters, pinch nan FBI besides assisting. Despite these efforts, officials opportunity location person been nary confirmed sightings aliases video showing him leaving nan area aliases indicating a guidance of travel.

McCasland is an avid outdoorsman who often hikes, runs, and cycles successful nan Northeast Heights and Sandia foothills. He is 5 feet 11 inches tall, pinch achromatic hairsbreadth and bluish eyes, and whitethorn person been wearing a ray green, long-sleeved, button-up garment erstwhile he went missing.

The sheriff’s agency reminded nan nationalist that immoderate reports beyond charismatic updates are unverified.

“There are group who effort to create their ain theories based connected nan constricted accusation disposable to nan public, and this makes uncovering Neil harder,” nan agency said successful a Facebook post.

Authorities are urging anyone pinch accusation aliases applicable video footage from February 27 and 28, peculiarly from nan Sandia Mountains aliases his neighborhood, to travel forward.

Officials said location is nary grounds of foul play, though McCasland has undisclosed aesculapian issues that raise interest for his safety. Wilkerson confirmed online that while he has aesculapian conditions, they are not related to dementia aliases Alzheimer’s disease.