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

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https://twitter.com/x/status/2035115669768085821

 

[Elley Mae]

Reza, who used the last name Jacinto professionally, is the creator of a “super-alloy” which was funded by an Air Force lab that was headed up by missing retired Air Force Gen. William McCasland.

Rocket scientist with ties to missing Air Force general associated with UFOs disappeared under eerily similar circumstances

Monica Reza, who held the patent to a unique “super-alloy” used in rockets which was funded by a McCasland-led Air Force lab, went missing without a trace while on a hike in Los Angeles…

nypost.com

 

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Linking the Monica Reza thread here on websleuths.


Thread 'CA - Monica Reza, 60, hiker, Mount Waterman, Los Angeles National Forest, 22 Jun 2025'

 

[Swansee]

I guess her case is best discussed over on the dedicated thread.
Either way, it doesn't help us to figure out what may have happened to McCasland. I hope more updates will be forthcoming.

 

[Han]

I guess her case is best discussed over on the dedicated thread.
Either way, it doesn't help us to figure out what may have happened to McCasland. I hope more updates will be forthcoming.

I agree we need an active link to the WS Monica Reza missing person case in the Los Angeles County area in June, 2025 and have included it. The relevance of one case to the other is not readily apparent to me at this moment but seems to warrant further consideration. Need to gather my thoughts before further comment.

Monica Reza thread

 

[Swansee]

I don't remember LE mentioning when the last bank activity was for McCasland.
I wish somebody had asked about that during the press conference.

I'm especially curious about any purchases he may have made in the 24h before his disappearance. Did he order anything online? Renew any subscriptions?

Also:
He took his wallet. Why? Did he purchase anything or make any cash withdrawals that day? What about the previous day?
Was there some kind of pass in the wallet which he would need to access places?

 

[Walela]

I don't remember LE mentioning when the last bank activity was for McCasland.
I wish somebody had asked about that during the press conference.

I'm especially curious about any purchases he may have made in the 24h before his disappearance. Did he order anything online? Renew any subscriptions?

Also:
He took his wallet. Why? Did he purchase anything or make any cash withdrawals that day? What about the previous day?
Was there some kind of pass in the wallet which he would need to access places?

I would like to know what was in his wallet and if he had taken anything out of his wallet before leaving. I also would like to know more about the repairman. I would hope the repairman could remember what NM was wearing when he talked with him. I would also like to know if NM was there when the repairman left. So many unanswered questions floating around in my mind. I'm just waiting for someone to answer them.
moo

 

[Trino]

I would like to know what was in his wallet and if he had taken anything out of his wallet before leaving. I also would like to know more about the repairman. I would hope the repairman could remember what NM was wearing when he talked with him. I would also like to know if NM was there when the repairman left. So many unanswered questions floating around in my mind. I'm just waiting for someone to answer them.
moo

Depending on theories, of course, but what if NM had planned a disappearance for months? Stashing $$$? A theory outside the box.

 

[diggndeeperstill]

Depending on theories, of course, but what if NM had planned a disappearance for months? Stashing $$$? A theory outside the box.

Actually wondered that too. The metal fog doesn’t even have to be real in that scenario. MOO

 

[moonglow123]

Yeah, at this point since he hasn't been found I'm leaning towards him hiding himself intentionally. I guess it's possible he hid in a crevice in the mountain or something like that. I don't know why he would do that, but who can say

I almost hope he went off to start a new life rather than commit suicide and hide himself where he'd never be found, but who knows. Clothes being found in his Colorado home is strange.

 

[Trino]

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

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.

If someone leaves to commit suicide, usually they choose a place where they can be found. Doesn't seem to adhere to that idea. Alternatives? Taken or voluntarily disappeared both of which don't quite fit.

 

[RedHaus]

If someone leaves to commit suicide, usually they choose a place where they can be found. Doesn't seem to adhere to that idea. Alternatives? Taken or voluntarily disappeared both of which don't quite fit. He appatently kayaked into the ocean.

I respectfully disagree with the premise people who wander into the wild to take their lives want their remains to be found.

I have seen the opposite with lost-in-the-wild cases that ended as suicides. Two examples:

1. C. Palmer's 2026 presumed suicide by LE and family in the Atlantic Ocean. He supposedly had a terminal CA dx and just buried his beloved old dog who'd died. It appears he kayaked into the ocean.

https://amp.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article314384006.html

2. ) A famous 2015 case on WS, IMO, where a local Scottish WS'er helped find American Susan McLean in remote woods. She had taken her life with vodka and pills, and hypothermia, IIRC.

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/lo...missing-from-aberfeldy-holiday-lodge-1.876172

There are other unsolved disappearances into the wild, which I and others suspect were suicides. Of course if they are never found, we'll never know. Perhaps that is a motive not to be found - so only you ever know you took your life.

IMO.

ET: change WS thread links to initial MSM links cited by those threads.

 

[Molly's Mom]

I agree we need an active link to the WS Monica Reza missing person case in the Los Angeles County area in June, 2025 and have included it. The relevance of one case to the other is not readily apparent to me at this moment but seems to warrant further consideration. Need to gather my thoughts before further comment.

Monica Reza thread

I mean, the clear connection is because they worked together and they both disappeared in the desert. People are putting them together because few colleagues disappear within a year of each other.

 

[Han]

MR was reported to be hiking with friends and was seen moments before she disappeared in difficult terrain. NM was last seen at home by his wife and was found to be missing when she returned about an hour later. Also he left behind items he would normally take (phone, wearables and prescription glasses) while taking a revolver. His wife says that’s unusual. Did he intend to be gone momentarily? But why the revolver, self-protection or self-harm? He has not even been seen on surveillance leaving the home. Substantial differences between the two cases.

But there has been massive attention devoted to finding each of them. No official word of any connection at all between the two cases.

 

[Elley Mae]

Married mom who vanished last year could be tied to missing and dead US scientists: report

She is one of four high-clearance people who have died or gone missing since June 2025 with connections to UFO-linked retired Air Force Gen. William McCasland, who vanished last month, according to the Daily Mail.

Married mom who vanished last year could be tied to missing and dead US scientists: report

Melissa Casias disappeared in June 2025.

nypost.com

Casias’ job at LANL links her to missing General William McCasland, the former research commander at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, which works closely with LANL on national security projects, according to the Daily Mail.

Casias vanished just four days after NASA rocket scientist Monica Reza mysteriously disappeared while hiking with friends in the Angeles National Forest in California.

 

[jerkface]

Oh come one, I am way too much of a conspiracy theorist for this. I will be quietly following along!

11 people dead or missing! Something is going on.

 

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Married mom who vanished last year could be tied to missing and dead US scientists: report

She is one of four high-clearance people who have died or gone missing since June 2025 with connections to UFO-linked retired Air Force Gen. William McCasland, who vanished last month, according to the Daily Mail.

Married mom who vanished last year could be tied to missing and dead US scientists: report

Melissa Casias disappeared in June 2025.

nypost.com

Casias’ job at LANL links her to missing General William McCasland, the former research commander at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, which works closely with LANL on national security projects, according to the Daily Mail.

Casias vanished just four days after NASA rocket scientist Monica Reza mysteriously disappeared while hiking with friends in the Angeles National Forest in California.

11 people so far have been documented as to have disappeared or dead. All connected to UAP red mercury reengineering alien craft using plasma red mercury and more I am not privy to.


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[moonglow123]

The amount of people in similar high-clearance roles, or at least associated with them, going missing is definitely odd. Totally possible it's a coincidence, but still weird.

Search for missing former Kirtland commander intensifies

Weeks after Maj. Gen. McCasland vanished in NE Albuquerque, investigators extend the search to Colorado and urge public tips.

www.abqjournal.com

I wish they'd expand on the clothing found in his Colorado home. Clothing he was known to have in Albuquerque? Clothing that was out of place and shouldn't have been there? Definitely weird.

 

[Curiousraccoon]

Married mom who vanished last year could be tied to missing and dead US scientists: report

She is one of four high-clearance people who have died or gone missing since June 2025 with connections to UFO-linked retired Air Force Gen. William McCasland, who vanished last month, according to the Daily Mail.

Married mom who vanished last year could be tied to missing and dead US scientists: report

Melissa Casias disappeared in June 2025.

nypost.com

Casias’ job at LANL links her to missing General William McCasland, the former research commander at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, which works closely with LANL on national security projects, according to the Daily Mail.

Casias vanished just four days after NASA rocket scientist Monica Reza mysteriously disappeared while hiking with friends in the Angeles National Forest in California.

From the same article:

"She was last seen on camera on June 25, 2025 walking alone on a highway without her wallet, phone or keys, after telling family members she would be working from home"