Recently unveiled bodycam footage has brought to light a startling encounter between a missing Air Force general and members of the Pentagon’s enigmatic space unit, occurring just hours before his mysterious disappearance.
During a police interview in New Mexico, officers recorded an interaction with a witness who reportedly shared a meal with William Neil McCasland the evening before he went missing on February 27.
McCasland, a retired Major General of the Air Force, has been associated with U.S. nuclear research and clandestine UFO-related programs throughout his distinguished career.
The bodycam footage, released by the Law&Crime Network, documents a phone conversation with an anonymous woman who stated that McCasland dined with her and members of the U.S. Space Force at an Albuquerque restaurant around 6 p.m. local time.
The Space Force is officially tasked with preparing the military for space operations, safeguarding satellites, and other assets from potential threats. However, this newest branch of the armed forces also monitors unexplained space phenomena, such as UFOs, to ensure national security.
The unidentified caller revealed that she collaborated with McCasland, who remained involved with the Kirtland Partnership. This nonprofit organization is dedicated to protecting and expanding Kirtland Air Force Base, a key site for military research and nuclear weapons development.
Previously, McCasland’s wife, Susan Wilkerson, had posted online that the retired general only had ‘very commonly held clearances’ since retiring from the Air Force 13 years ago, but the new witness revealed that the 68-year-old was still a key figure in secretive government circles.
‘He was the head of Air Force Research Lab to the point the man’s names are in the UFO documents that are fixed to be released,’ the witness claimed. ‘He’s in that depth, so he has a very high security clearance.’
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William Neil McCasland, 68, was last seen around 11am on Friday, February 27 near Quail Run Court NE in Albuquerque, the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office said
The sheriff’s office has issued a Silver Alert, a public notification system used in the US to locate missing seniors or individuals with Alzheimer’s, dementia or other mental disabilities
However, the woman who met with McCasland said something seemed wrong during the meeting with Space Force and the retired general was not acting like himself that night.
‘I was shocked this morning when I saw the alert because what I noticed Thursday evening [February 26] is he wasn’t his usual self. He was kind of spacey and quiet and you know that that happens with people.’
The newly obtained bodycam footage also revealed the conversation between officers from the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office and Wilkerson, revealing that McCasland’s disappearance caught her completely off guard.
However, she noted that the retired general was just prescribed a new medication hours before he vanished which was supposed to help battle a number of symptoms he was having that may have been signaling cognitive decline.
‘Today he had taken a drug that the doctor prescribed last night that was supposed to help him sleep with weight gain,’ she said in the bodycam recording obtained by Law&Crime Sidebar with Jesse Weber.
‘He’s lost about 20 pounds for no reason and with anxiety. Today he woke up and said, “Well, I have got better sleep, but it’s like the after effects of a bad hangover. I’m just foggy. I can’t get any motivation to do anything.”‘
McCasland was reportedly seeing doctors for his physical and mental difficulties. Before police arrived at the home, Wilkerson had told 911 dispatchers the military veteran feared his brain was ‘deteriorating.’
He was last seen leaving his home without his phone, wearable devices or any identification and his wife told authorities she believed McCasland ‘had planned not to be found.’
McCasland reportedly had ties to US government projects involving nuclear research and UFO-related technology. A witness claimed he met with the US Space Force on February 26
McCasland had changed his clothes and only took a pair of boots and his .38-caliber revolver before vanishing around 11am that morning. There has been no sign of the general since that time.
The general was previously in charge of both Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico and the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson in Ohio.
UFO enthusiasts have linked both facilities to secret studies of advanced aerospace technology and unexplained phenomena for decades, although officials maintain they focus on national security and experimental defense projects.
Since the unit’s creation in 2019, the military has publicly acknowledged that the Space Force has a major presence at both locations.
The branch uses Kirtland for its Space Systems Command and Space Rapid Capabilities Office. Meanwhile, Space Force runs the National Space Intelligence Center out of Wright-Patterson.
The Ohio military complex has a long history of UFO-related rumors, with former government scientists Hal Puthoff and Eric Davis claiming the debris from the alleged UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 was taken to Wright-Patterson for examination.
Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett told WABC radio in March that McCasland was the key figure in America’s secret research into UFO and extraterrestrial technology.
Burchett said: ‘He’s the guy that had a lot of nuclear secrets. I’ve been told by several sources that he was the gatekeeper for the UFO stuff.’
