NM - Retired Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, 68, who led Air Force Research Laboratory, Bernalillo County, 27 February 2026

[nhmemorymaker]

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In my opinion we overestimate the likelihood of someone being seen on camera in the average neighborhood. People might have their cameras covering only their immediate property. Perhaps it's quite easy to leave his house and be in nature away from cameras pretty quickly?

yeah... this is what I wish we knew for certain....

 

[nhmemorymaker]

A former colleague of missing Air Force Gen. William Mccasland disappeared while hiking months before him, according to authorities.

“We don’t know whether or not these missing persons cases are connected at this point, but I did tip off the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department about it, asked if this was a lead that they were investigating and we’re still waiting to hear back,” NewsNation’s Alex Caprariello said.
William McCasland search: Ex-colleague vanished months before him
In a March 6 release, the sheriff’s office said it hadn’t uncovered any evidence of foul play but was still considering all possible scenarios.

In other cases, we do hear more when LE has reviewed digital accounts.....
Why are we hearing nothing about this?
I wonder what degree of searching his wife wants.............

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Some of these groups/ boards must be the ones he recently pulled back from bc Brain/mental fog altho he had no confusion or disorientation.
That’s the conundrum …what actually was his “fog” and was there a diagnosed cause. Did the fog appear to be permanent and perhaps progressive or not etc.
We just don’t know.

Either it felt like a loss to have to walk away from a few of his commitments or he was ready to move on and the brain fog gave him a way out. Regimented and committed to having purpose it appears, I sense giving up these positions felt very much like a loss. A bit of a second retirement if you will.
He is only 68 - many people are still out there working full time living full lives.
It can be hard to age. Depending upon his state of mind I guess he was either taking it in stride or not.
JMO

Thats the thing.... we know he was involved in various consulting projects after his formal retirement from the military....
Almost alll retired high level military go into various private companies ....
They make a lot of money for their expertise....

Edited to add: All of this history of his post-military CAREER is so fully delineated by @diggndeeperstill back-thread ..... so I don't really need this post, but leaving it to accentuate all that he had been doing.........

 

[ChatteringBirds]

WHY would he want to disappear rather than be found

If this is the case, maybe he is somewhere he will be found. I recall more than one case where they knew the general area someone should be found in, yet it still took a long time to find them.

 

[MAHBOOBOO]

Maybe the gun and backpack being missing while the wearables + phone are still in the home is important and maybe it's not.

I have what I call a "dog walking" backpack I put on anytime I intend to leave my house on foot for more than 5 minutes;
What's in the backpack: my gun and various other anti-dog attack tools + my wallet + sunglasses + my least favorite set of reading glasses... that particular gun basically just lives in that backpack.
What not in the backpack: my phone

Doesn't matter what I'm doing outside; it can be yard work, going for a walk, walking to the main street to grab a bougie tea, taking down my front yard camera to recharge it, working on a car... the backpack comes with me and the phone stays in the house. I live in a nice neighborhood too, but in Texas dog attacks are always a possibility. NO ONE in my personal life knows about my "dog walking backpack". So... it's possible that him doing something similar isn't all that unusual. Unlikely? Yes. But possible.

 

[carterkatt]

I apologize if this has been said, and I missed it... but do we know how long he has had this purported "brain fog"???
Thanks

 

[diggndeeperstill]

In other cases, we do hear more when LE has reviewed digital accounts.....
Why are we hearing nothing about this?
I wonder what degree of searching his wife wants.............

It’s likely not her choice, how much is given, but I agree, what does she SUSPECT? Remember she was in those leaked emails too. What does that mean for her security IF she believes something criminal happened to him? He seems a matter of national security.

They have stated he wasn’t suicidal. If he was, would he choose to make it so hard to find him? Does suicide preclude his life insurance or military benefits? I doubt it.

I think they better figure out where he is and soon.

 

[Han]

I apologize if this has been said, and I missed it... but do we know how long he has had this purported "brain fog"???
Thanks

This is one of the earlier mentions of brain or mental fog: NM - Retired Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, 68, who led Air Force Research Laboratory, Bernalillo County, 27 February 2026
BCSO has been careful to say NM was not suffering from cognitive decline. I’m uncertain how they believe it is relevant to their investigation.

 

[Swansee]

Are we sure they have fully declared that there is "no footage of him leaving his house"

Didn't we also hear that it is mountainous right behind his house... no roads at all?

It is easy to infer since they clearly have no idea what clothes he was wearing. If there was any footage of him leaving, they would know 100% what clothes/shoes/backpack he had on and wouldn't be having to guess by elimination from what they find or not in the house.

 

[diggndeeperstill]

I haven’t read all of this, likely won’t. But searched McCasland’s name and thought worthwhile to post original sourcing of statements of him advising Tom DeLonge

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-ShellenbergerM-20241113.pdf

(PUBLIC DOMAIN) - 24 January 2016 — USAF Maj. Gen. Neil McCasland, USAF Maj. Gen.
Michael Carey, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works EVP Rob Weiss, Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podestà and Clinton campaign assistant Milia Fisher met virtually with musician Tom DeLonge to discuss UAP. Details of the meeting are not released, but afterward, DeLonge claimed he had a team of “high-ranking advisors” helping him prepare the U.S. public through media for USG disclosure of UAP information.

DeLonge wrote to Podesta that McCasland, who led the Air Force Research Laboratory at
Wright-Patterson AFB, told him “when Roswell crashed, they shipped it to [WPAFB]...he not only knows what I’m trying to achieve [USG disclosure], he helped me assemble my advisory team.”

● Hillary campaign manager held UFO meeting with USAF generals, rock star and top secret aircraft developer

● Is a U.S. Air Force general from Wright-Patterson helping Tom DeLonge obtain official UFO disclosure?

Note: This meeting between USG personnel, Lockheed Martin, Clinton campaign staff and a
U.S. citizen with a large pop culture following, occurred ten months before the 2016 presidential election.

DeLonge admitted in several subsequent interviews he would create media for U.S. citizens’consumption at the guidance of current and former USG/USG contractor personnel, some of whom were not disclosed to the public when that media was published. In 2017, DeLonge co-founded To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science with former USG employees and contractors from the intelligence community.
(Page 181)

PUBLIC DOMAIN) - 26 October 2017 — Musician Tom DeLonge suggests on a podcast he is being advised by USAF Maj. Gen. Neil McCasland, USAF Maj. Gen. Michael Carey, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works EVP Rob Weiss, Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta, Dr. Hal Puthoff, former Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher K. Mellon and former OUSD(I) employee and AATIP head Luis Elizondo, among others unnamed, to carry out slow disclosure of UAP information to the American public from USG/USG contractor sources.

DeLonge claims USG/USG contractors already have free energy technology, i.e. zero-point
energy, that would make all other forms of energy derivation obsolete. “One inch of air could power theUS for hundreds of years,” he claimed. DeLonge suggested his group, To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA), was being restrained from releasing all information government insiders were telling him, but that TTSA sought investment from private investors to develop said free energy technology for
energy and aerospace purposes. DeLonge also stated TTSA expected to create a working anti-gravity craft; the company’s offering statement to the SEC stated the company’s aerospace division was “dedicated to finding revolutionary breakthroughs in propulsion, energy and communications.”

● Podpage | Build a beautiful podcast website in 5 minutes

● Amazon.com (p210)
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[LakeRat55]

This is one of the earlier mentions of brain or mental fog: NM - Retired Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, 68, who led Air Force Research Laboratory, Bernalillo County, 27 February 2026
BCSO has been careful to say NM was not suffering from cognitive decline. I’m uncertain how they believe it is relevant to their investigation.

The other question that comes to mind is, is the claim of brain fog coming only from his wife, or was it an actual confirmed diagnosis by a medical professional? I am struggling with the seemingly casualness of his wife under the given circumstances....odd details and irrelevant info in Facebook post, joke about alien abduction, not aware of what he was wearing, what were his plans, comments about brain fog, etc. Something just seems off about this case. JMO

 

[diggndeeperstill]

Just documenting things: this was 2019

https://www.kirtland.af.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/2001842879/

AFRL 100 year celebration​

1st Lt. Steven McNamara (left) and Maj. Gen. (ret.) William Neil McCasland (ret.), cut the cake celebrating 100 years of heritage for the Air Force Research Laboratory Nov. 6 at the Heritage Annex. McNamara, from AFRL NM, and McCasland, a former AFRL Space Vehicles director and HQ AFRL commander, represented the storied past and promising future of AFRL's two New Mexican directorates.

 

[diggndeeperstill]

Still documenting- 2021

https://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2716297/space-units-at-kirtland-hold-us-space-force-induction-ceremony/

• Published Aug. 3, 2021
• By Jeanne Dailey
• Air Force Research Laboratory

Maj. Gen. Neil McCasland (USAF Ret.) officiated the ceremony that included the presentation of colors by the Team Kirtland Honor Guard, a remarkable saxophone rendering of the “The Star-Spangled Banner” by Maj. Derick Perry and an invocation by Capt. (Chap.) Craig Nakagawa.

..
“The heavy lifting, however, field grade officers, in defining in the Space Force, falls on your shoulders, to detail brass tacks, plan and execute,” McCasland said. “I’m, thrilled with the bold vision the Chief of Space Operations and his senior staff are staking out….but, I’m here to tell you, though, its success is going to depend on your collective vision about how to pull it off in reality.”

McCasland reminded the new Guardian field grade officers that they are the brain trust in the DOD for the core, foundational, and scientific and technical expertise the Space Force will count on.

 

[diggndeeperstill]

December 14, 2022

I haven’t listened so I can’t summarize yet. He’s on a panel here.

 

[diggndeeperstill]

Background info:

https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2001/6/1/2001june-killing-missiles-from-space-can-the-us-air-force-do-it-with-lasers

Killing Missiles From Space: Can the U.S. Air Force Do It With Lasers?​

6/1/2001
By Sandra I. Erwin

An experimental satellite loaded with a megawatt laser could be launched into orbit some time between 2010 and 2012. Its mission would be to zap an intercontinental ballistic missile, fired from a location on Earth, hundreds of miles away.

…
Space-based anti-missile weapons are banned by the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. But, from a technological standpoint, it appears that such a system is achievable, provided that the Pentagon commits the funding. Even though the treaty prohibits the deployment of space-based missile defenses, it cannot stop the United States from pursuing research and testing technologies.
…

Exotic space-based beam weapons—the so-called Star Wars systems—have been in and out of the spotlight for more than two decades. The idea of a space-based shield against Soviet nuclear missiles was embraced by Ronald Reagan in 1983. The plan faded away with the end of the Cold War. In the early 1990s, the Pentagon shifted its financial resources from celestial defenses to land-based theater systems that would protect troops from short-range tactical missiles.

But the notion of deploying a missile-defense system in space did not vanish entirely. Congressional Republicans, particularly, provided funding for military space research, even when the administration did not support the projects.

Space-based anti-missile weapons are banned by the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. But, from a technological standpoint, it appears that such a system is achievable, provided that the Pentagon commits the funding. Even though the treaty prohibits the deployment of space-based missile defenses, it cannot stop the United States from pursuing research and testing technologies.

That is exactly what the U.S. Air Force plans to do, under a program called Space-Based Laser Integrated Flight Experiment (SBL-IFX). The $4 billion program is co-sponsored by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization.
..
The program’s director, Air Force Col. Neil McCasland, cautions that it is too early to label the SBL-IFX as a definitive missile-defense option for the United States. “It is only a demonstration,” he said in an interview. But there is potential, he noted, to evolve the technology toward the deployment of a global network of space-based interceptor satellites, which would destroy intercontinental-class ballistic missiles (ICBMs) using directed energy.
..,
(Much more in between)

According to McCasland, the SBL potentially could attack aircraft flying in the higher levels of the stratosphere. “We think the laser will penetrate into the very highest levels of the atmosphere,” he said.

 

[Traymar]

I don't mean to keep harping on the glasses, but I wish we knew if he had other ones. Or if he had prescription sunglasses. In every photo, he's wearing glasses. I can't imagine him leaving voluntarily, even on foot, and not wearing his glasses.

Most people I know who wear glasses put them on first thing and take them off last thing.

But, as it was morning/afternoon, he might have worn prescription sunglasses (if he had them). Or if they're not prescription, maybe his glasses are transitions? Although there are pictures of him outside with clear glasses on.

The fact that the glasses were even mentioned seems to indicate that it was notable.

My son took his own life two years ago. He drove to a spot and then walked into the woods. He left his wallet and a note for us in his car. He left his phone at home on his bed. But he had his glasses on, even though he only needed them for driving or computer work. So he only wore them sometimes, but he wore them when he walked off into those woods that day.

These are the reasons the glasses are nagging at me, and why a small part of me wonders whether Neil actually left voluntarily. MOO

 

[Swansee]

I'm very sorry for your loss Traymar.
Thank you for sharing.
I agree the glasses being left behind is strange. Even if he intended to end his life , McCasland would need to see where he was going to get to the location. As you said, we don't know if he may have had prescription sunglasses, or some other pair.

 

[Han]

@Traymar your concern about the glasses is one I share. He is seen in pictures, however, wearing sunglasses so maybe that explains things. I’m sorry for your personal loss; I don’t think this is suicide but I can understand that others do.

 

[Bodhi]

I don't mean to keep harping on the glasses, but I wish we knew if he had other ones. Or if he had prescription sunglasses. In every photo, he's wearing glasses. I can't imagine him leaving voluntarily, even on foot, and not wearing his glasses.

Most people I know who wear glasses put them on first thing and take them off last thing.

But, as it was morning/afternoon, he might have worn prescription sunglasses (if he had them). Or if they're not prescription, maybe his glasses are transitions? Although there are pictures of him outside with clear glasses on.

The fact that the glasses were even mentioned seems to indicate that it was notable.

My son took his own life two years ago. He drove to a spot and then walked into the woods. He left his wallet and a note for us in his car. He left his phone at home on his bed. But he had his glasses on, even though he only needed them for driving or computer work. So he only wore them sometimes, but he wore them when he walked off into those woods that day.

These are the reasons the glasses are nagging at me, and why a small part of me wonders whether Neil actually left voluntarily. MOO

Oh my gosh, Traymar. I am so sorry for your loss!

 

[diggndeeperstill]

@Traymar so very sorry for your loss and what you’ve experienced and continue to I’m sure.
I remember following the case of Jake Cefolia here who did the exact same.

In this case, I think that it is something different as well.

Can anyone point me to them saying if the repairman was gone when wife got home?