Retired U.S. Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland, age 68, vanished without a trace from Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 27, 2026. As of this writing, he has not been found.
The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office issued a Silver Alert. The FBI is involved. More than 600 homeowners have been contacted for Ring camera and surveillance footage. McCasland left his phone behind and appears to have vanished on foot. There are no confirmed sightings.
Who Is Neil McCasland
This is not a random retired officer. McCasland’s career placed him at the intersection of the most classified programs in the US military:
- MIT graduate and doctorate holder in advanced space systems
- Secretary of the Air Force’s Office of Special Projects at Los Angeles AFB — highly classified payload and satellite programs
- Directed the Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base in collaboration with the National Reconnaissance Office
- Executive Secretary of the Special Access Program Oversight Committee — the body that supervises America’s most highly classified programs
- Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB — overseeing billions in advanced scientific research until his 2013 retirement
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The same facility that Tom DeLonge told John Podesta was the storage location for recovered Roswell debris and bodies.
The DeLonge-Podesta Connection
In 2016, when Russian-linked hackers leaked John Podesta’s emails via WikiLeaks, one thread stood out. Tom DeLonge — Blink-182 frontman and founder of To The Stars Academy — had been communicating with Podesta about McCasland directly:
“He just has to say that out loud, but he is very, very aware — as he was in charge of all of the stuff.”
“When Roswell crashed, they shipped it to the laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. General McCasland was in charge of that exact laboratory up to a couple years ago.”
DeLonge also told Podesta that McCasland had helped assemble his advisory team and called him “a very important man.”
His Wife’s Statement
After McCasland’s disappearance triggered a wave of UFO-community speculation, his wife Susan McCasland Wilkerson posted a direct response on social media addressing the claims:
- He was not suffering from Alzheimer’s or dementia. The “medical issue” cited in the Silver Alert was something else. He was “not confused and disoriented.”
- A reported “concerning phone call” the morning he vanished is a “complete fabrication.”
- He retired from the Air Force 13 years ago and “had only very commonly held clearances since.”
- The DeLonge association was brief and unpaid — a consultant role to “lend verisimilitude to Tom’s fiction book and media activities.”
- “Neil does not have any special knowledge about the ET bodies and debris from the Roswell crash stored at Wright-Patt.”
She closed with dark humour: “At this point with absolutely no sign of him, maybe the best hypothesis is that aliens beamed him up to the mothership. However, no sightings of a mothership hovering above the Sandia Mountains have been reported.”
The Oracle Assessment
McCasland’s wife’s denials are careful and specific. She does not deny that he oversaw Wright-Patterson. She does not deny the DeLonge emails exist. She does not deny he ran the Special Access Program Oversight Committee. She says he no longer held high clearances — but a man who ran SAPOC and directed the NRO collaboration at Kirtland does not forget what he knows when he retires.
He is the 12th named individual in UAP Oracle’s active cases file of researchers and officials who have gone missing or died under suspicious circumstances since 2020. The FBI is now involved in his case. The April 27, 2026 congressional UAP deadline has passed. PURSUE is live. And McCasland — the man DeLonge said was “in charge of all of the stuff” — is still missing.
If you have any information: contact Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office Missing Persons Unit at 505-468-7070 or text BCSO to 847411.
Source: The Debrief, Micah Hanks — March 11, 2026. Albuquerque Journal. USAF biography records.