March 13, 2026
Alien Abduction Theories Run Wild Over Mysterious Disappearance of Former Air Force Commander
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RSS Feed It’s been exactly two weeks since retired Major General William Neal McCasland disappeared from his New Mexico home. His disappearance is gaining national attention because the Air Force base he commanded was once the headquarters for a military program that oversaw U.F.O. investigations. Authorities believe General McCasland left his home with his wallet, his hiking boots and his gun, notably leaving his cellphone and prescription glasses behind. Now federal officials and his wife - who addresses the alien theories - are asking for the public’s help in finding him.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Friday, March thirteenth, and a retired Air Force general has been missing for two weeks, vanished almost without a trace. And one of the leading theories about what happened to him aliens took him. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. That was not overstating what's happening. Folks are really thinking aliens might have taken.
00:00:32
Speaker 2: This general or someone who thinks he has information about aliens. But yes, there is an alien connection to this missing retired major general. His name is William Neil McCaslin. His wife calls him Neil, so that's what he goes by. But he the reason why there's this connection. He was the commander of a very specific Air Force base, right Patterson Air Force famous, storied, Yes, and for more than two decades that was the headquarters for what is called Project Blue Book. And it's an Air Force program that investigated UFOs.
00:01:14
Speaker 1: So this guy though was Yes, he was only in charge of it for two years. But now he has been retired for quite some time. But General McCaslin two weeks ago walked away from his home near Albuquerque. He walked out, he didn't take a lot of his stuff, but he took a wallet, they say. They say he took his gun, a thirty eight caliber weapon, walked out, disappeared, didn't take his phone with him. I have that correct, Correct, growth didn't have his phone and he has not been seen since. Now. The word is he's got he's good upstairs.
00:01:46
Speaker 2: Right.
00:01:46
Speaker 1: This is not some old man who walked off with dementia.
00:01:48
Speaker 2: Correct, He's sixty eight years old. But his wife said on Facebook that he was not suffering from dementia, that he has his faculties about him. He's an avid out doorsman, by the way. He is known to hike and run and bike all through this area in New Mexico, so he's very familiar with his surroundings. And look, he had his hiking boots on him, so authorities are pretty sure he left on foot. But the other interesting is he brought his wallet with him, but he left his phone behind. He brought his gun or his hiking boots, but he left his prescription glasses behind. There's a lot of clues that don't make a lot of sense.
00:02:26
Speaker 1: So with all of that robes, you throw in where he was based, you throw in I guess robes. You could even throw in the fact that he lives in New Mexico.
00:02:37
Speaker 2: Yep, you sir, sure ken.
00:02:39
Speaker 1: And then there's one other thing the wife throws in that I really didn't understand from the Blink one eighty two guy. Yeah, this partnership is another reason folks are thinking UFOs here.
00:02:50
Speaker 2: So after he retired, and he's been retired for thirteen years, I believe is the exact amount of time he worked as an unpaid consultant to the Stars. I didn't know about this organization, but the New York Times has profiled them. Read as much as I could about them. But yeah, the Stars is a part of involve They involve themselves in investigating UFOs. And yes, you're right, it's bizarrely founded by Tom DeLong, a singer and guitarist, A former singer and guitarist in the band Blink one two, who knew.
00:03:25
Speaker 1: I didn't know that was going on. But you throw in all these associations, right, robes. But going back to the one now, I think a lot of people might not even be familiar with out of Dayton, Ohio. He was in charge of this base that isn't in charge right now. Necessarily of doing some kind of UFO research, but robes. This was a big historic deal when it happened. This is where the US government first said, hey, we better research and put some information out to the public about what's happening in the sky.
00:03:55
Speaker 2: Yes, and when you start to look at what this missing commander's credentials are, they're very impressive. He got his master's degree and doctorate in aeronautical engineering from MIIIT. This is a smart, smart guy. And yes, while he was with the Air Force, he served in a variety of space research, acquisition, and operational roles. So we mentioned that one Air Force base, but he also worked at Air Force bases in Utah, New Mexico, as well as the Pentagon. This is a smart, smart guy who had access to all of the information that so many people want to know. And yes, this connection to UFOs, this connection to aliens, this connection to this research is all swirling around his disappearance right now. And yes, it has peaud the interest. Well, it's certainly gained national interest now because of his connection to all of this.
00:04:52
Speaker 1: And we go back to Dayton, Ohio. It was called Project blue Book, and this is a project that went and the work went on there for a decade. But this was after Robes. There started to be sightings UFO sightings all around and became kind of a fever pitch in the country that people thought something was going on. People wanted to know what was happening, and a lot of theories got going about UFOs. This was also at a time where we're in competition with other countries where they spying on us. So, right, Patterson there right there in Dayton, Ohio.
00:05:26
Speaker 2: Wude, I didn't know about this.
00:05:27
Speaker 1: Did you know about this? I'm kind of a UFO guy, so it kind of makes sense. That makes sense, right, I would be that guy. But the old roswell had to be checked out, and they did all of this work there Robes. Again, this was in the fifties, forties, fifties, sixties, I think was going on. Yeah, in the middle of the fifties for sure.
00:05:48
Speaker 2: Up to this this was I think they shut down the program in the late sixty nine seventies.
00:05:53
Speaker 1: He was in charge of this in what two thousand and what, So he wasn't he wasn't in there, you know, doing UFO research. But this is a like the stuff of lore out of this base and if you're connected to that base. If you told me that you worked there, the first thing out of my mouth would have been about alien What do they look like? He was what did you learn of that place? Like today, if I run into somebody who works there, like, yo, come on, tell me, I would. But he was in charge of that place. He's missing, nobody knows where, why, how, there's a mystery, and he worked where this other mysterious place. You could see where this was going.
00:06:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then worked with the Stars. So and in terms of they were formed in twenty seventeen, it's a team of twelve and there are plenty of former governor and government employees who are working on this team where they are trying to uncover the mysteries in the skies. And his wife specifically said that her husband helped this organization to stars with military and technical scientific matters. So this is a guy who had information, who knows things that most of us don't know on a lot of things, but specifically on what the government knows about aliens. You know.
00:07:15
Speaker 1: But I was laughing at her, you know, I give her credit. She sounds like somebody who's been through enough, lived enough life, and she almost has a bit of a sense of humor, but she said, are you kidding me? It seems highly unlikely anybody's going to kidnap him to find out some outdated secrets, Like he didn't know that much in the first place, and certainly the stuff he knew was a long time ago. She was dismissive of it in such a way, and that's how she chose to say it kidnap him for outdated secrets.
00:07:43
Speaker 2: Yes, so if someone didn't kidnap him for outdated secrets, then the other operating theory is that aliens took him because he knows too much about them.
00:07:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's prevailing. I mean, what else do we have. Look, we're talking about and people are speaking about this in a lighter manner or because it has to do with aliens. But right now a woman is missing her husband, Yeah, for two weeks without a trace, and this does not sound good. Shed at least acknowledged and addressed some of the stuff that's out there, and I give her credit for that. But Robes, this is still I mean, Nancy Guthrie is on the back of your mind.
00:08:18
Speaker 2: It is because look, New Mexico, Arizona, they're obviously in this same type of area, the same type of terrain. You're talking about mass expanse of desert and highlands, and this is difficult terrain for searchers to go through just because of the sheer amount of it.
00:08:37
Speaker 1: We're not and there is no suggestion that anything that happened to Nancy Guthrie. No, certainly no connection, but certainly not. They're not similar in terms of they think there was foul play or something here. We're not to that point. But robes similar and that too. Elderly folks just up and disappear without a trace, and this is how this one has started.
00:09:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a fair just it's not that any authority is making a connection, but certainly there are similarities where it's the same area. It's elderly folks, they are vanished without a trace. There's no police, have no clue, they have no idea.
00:09:17
Speaker 1: And now, yes, the.
00:09:18
Speaker 2: FBI is officially involved with this now trying to find this general.
00:09:24
Speaker 1: But folks, we mentioned so many folks out there online and talking about theories and talking about aliens. Well, the wife of the general put out a statement and she spoke specifically to a lot of those theories, and I give her credit for her comments. We'll let you hear them say here.
00:09:52
Speaker 2: Welcome back to this episode of Amy and TJ, where there is a mystery growing around a miss retired major general. His name is William Neil McCasland. He was living in Albuquerque with his wife, sixty eight years old. Retired general. The problem for a lot of folks, or I say, the issue, the reason why it's making such national headlines. This is a general who worked at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, an air Force base known to be the headquarters of where this country has investigated alien life UFOs. You name it, General mcaslin, A lot of people believe knows the answers to all the mysteries surrounding extraterrestrial life. Not so much, his wife says. But as the search continues for him, he walked away from his home two weeks ago today, and the FBI is involved, Law enforcement is involved. The search is ongoing, and there is not a clue. You know what there is a clue? Can I Actually I forgot to mention I thought this was interesting. The only thing that police have found so far is a gray US Air Force sweatshirt. They found it about a mile from his home. There's no blood on it, and they haven't confirmed if it's actually his, but it would seem like that would probably be the case. But how about that just his sweatshirt a mile from his home, just on the ground with nothing else around.
00:11:27
Speaker 1: Know how they can't say that's his. I mean, obviously he'll be able to know what I'm saying. His wife would be able to look at it. I don't know why they're not saying it's his or not either, right. I thought it was bizarre they find this thing, And that said, the family hasn't confirmed whether or not it's his. It seems strange it is or it isn't. But hey, you remember all those black gloves around Nancy Guthrie's house that looked like the ones the guy on the ring cam was and it had nothing to do with nothing, So who knows.
00:11:55
Speaker 2: Us air force sweatshirt? So anyway, that's truly the only clue they have found. But his wife has gone on to Facebook, and she has, as you mentioned, tried to at least have a little bit of a light hearted outlook about some of the operating theories about out there about why or how he's gone missing. She wrote, Neil does not have any special knowledge about the extraterrestrial bodies and debris from the Roswell crash stored at right pat though 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. That is from his wife.
00:12:41
Speaker 1: No, she sounds a little frustrated, a little fed up, and maybe just kind of let something out. I mean, she's missing, her husband, has no idea where he is. Again, no foul play suspected here, and she sees all the stuff out there and it's probably annoying. I don't know how much of it is comical, but some of it can seem mean if you're sitting on that end. Possibly so good for her at least acknowledging it.
00:13:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. She says that morning she left to go I believe, to the doctors or to run an errand, and he was there. Everything seemed fine, and when she came back, he was just gone. They believe he left around eleven am Friday, February twenty seventh, and they are asking police have dogs, they have drones, they have helicopters. He supposedly has unspecified medical issues, but it's not supposed to be deeply concerning the way we heard about Nancy Guthrie needing her pills to stay alive. We haven't gotten anything on that level, but we know that law enforcement so far has gone door to door. They said they have literally knocked on the doors of six hundred homes and businesses trying to find any answers, any clues about where he may be. And much like the Nancy Guthrie case, we're hearing now from officials asking anyone in the area to look at their ring camera videos. They're trying to find any video, anything that could at least show where he may be. But again, it's so similar to the Guthrie case, and that this is out there. This isn't some metropolis where you've got people with cameras and street cams everywhere. This is a true mystery.
00:14:13
Speaker 1: We will keep an eye on this one like so many people are, but keep them in your thoughts as you're commenting out there or maybe cracking a joke or to or think some of it's funny having to do with these associations. You'll see a lot of those comments out there, but yeah, there's a woman out there and a family out there, and it's turning because they don't know what's happened to their loved one. We'll keep a close eye on this one. We always appreciate you spending some time with us on behalf of my dear Amy Robot. I'm TJ. Holmes. Talk soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Friday, March thirteenth, and a retired Air Force general has been missing for two weeks, vanished almost without a trace. And one of the leading theories about what happened to him aliens took him. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. That was not overstating what's happening. Folks are really thinking aliens might have taken.
00:00:32
Speaker 2: This general or someone who thinks he has information about aliens. But yes, there is an alien connection to this missing retired major general. His name is William Neil McCaslin. His wife calls him Neil, so that's what he goes by. But he the reason why there's this connection. He was the commander of a very specific Air Force base, right Patterson Air Force famous, storied, Yes, and for more than two decades that was the headquarters for what is called Project Blue Book. And it's an Air Force program that investigated UFOs.
00:01:14
Speaker 1: So this guy though was Yes, he was only in charge of it for two years. But now he has been retired for quite some time. But General McCaslin two weeks ago walked away from his home near Albuquerque. He walked out, he didn't take a lot of his stuff, but he took a wallet, they say. They say he took his gun, a thirty eight caliber weapon, walked out, disappeared, didn't take his phone with him. I have that correct, Correct, growth didn't have his phone and he has not been seen since. Now. The word is he's got he's good upstairs.
00:01:46
Speaker 2: Right.
00:01:46
Speaker 1: This is not some old man who walked off with dementia.
00:01:48
Speaker 2: Correct, He's sixty eight years old. But his wife said on Facebook that he was not suffering from dementia, that he has his faculties about him. He's an avid out doorsman, by the way. He is known to hike and run and bike all through this area in New Mexico, so he's very familiar with his surroundings. And look, he had his hiking boots on him, so authorities are pretty sure he left on foot. But the other interesting is he brought his wallet with him, but he left his phone behind. He brought his gun or his hiking boots, but he left his prescription glasses behind. There's a lot of clues that don't make a lot of sense.
00:02:26
Speaker 1: So with all of that robes, you throw in where he was based, you throw in I guess robes. You could even throw in the fact that he lives in New Mexico.
00:02:37
Speaker 2: Yep, you sir, sure ken.
00:02:39
Speaker 1: And then there's one other thing the wife throws in that I really didn't understand from the Blink one eighty two guy. Yeah, this partnership is another reason folks are thinking UFOs here.
00:02:50
Speaker 2: So after he retired, and he's been retired for thirteen years, I believe is the exact amount of time he worked as an unpaid consultant to the Stars. I didn't know about this organization, but the New York Times has profiled them. Read as much as I could about them. But yeah, the Stars is a part of involve They involve themselves in investigating UFOs. And yes, you're right, it's bizarrely founded by Tom DeLong, a singer and guitarist, A former singer and guitarist in the band Blink one two, who knew.
00:03:25
Speaker 1: I didn't know that was going on. But you throw in all these associations, right, robes. But going back to the one now, I think a lot of people might not even be familiar with out of Dayton, Ohio. He was in charge of this base that isn't in charge right now. Necessarily of doing some kind of UFO research, but robes. This was a big historic deal when it happened. This is where the US government first said, hey, we better research and put some information out to the public about what's happening in the sky.
00:03:55
Speaker 2: Yes, and when you start to look at what this missing commander's credentials are, they're very impressive. He got his master's degree and doctorate in aeronautical engineering from MIIIT. This is a smart, smart guy. And yes, while he was with the Air Force, he served in a variety of space research, acquisition, and operational roles. So we mentioned that one Air Force base, but he also worked at Air Force bases in Utah, New Mexico, as well as the Pentagon. This is a smart, smart guy who had access to all of the information that so many people want to know. And yes, this connection to UFOs, this connection to aliens, this connection to this research is all swirling around his disappearance right now. And yes, it has peaud the interest. Well, it's certainly gained national interest now because of his connection to all of this.
00:04:52
Speaker 1: And we go back to Dayton, Ohio. It was called Project blue Book, and this is a project that went and the work went on there for a decade. But this was after Robes. There started to be sightings UFO sightings all around and became kind of a fever pitch in the country that people thought something was going on. People wanted to know what was happening, and a lot of theories got going about UFOs. This was also at a time where we're in competition with other countries where they spying on us. So, right, Patterson there right there in Dayton, Ohio.
00:05:26
Speaker 2: Wude, I didn't know about this.
00:05:27
Speaker 1: Did you know about this? I'm kind of a UFO guy, so it kind of makes sense. That makes sense, right, I would be that guy. But the old roswell had to be checked out, and they did all of this work there Robes. Again, this was in the fifties, forties, fifties, sixties, I think was going on. Yeah, in the middle of the fifties for sure.
00:05:48
Speaker 2: Up to this this was I think they shut down the program in the late sixty nine seventies.
00:05:53
Speaker 1: He was in charge of this in what two thousand and what, So he wasn't he wasn't in there, you know, doing UFO research. But this is a like the stuff of lore out of this base and if you're connected to that base. If you told me that you worked there, the first thing out of my mouth would have been about alien What do they look like? He was what did you learn of that place? Like today, if I run into somebody who works there, like, yo, come on, tell me, I would. But he was in charge of that place. He's missing, nobody knows where, why, how, there's a mystery, and he worked where this other mysterious place. You could see where this was going.
00:06:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then worked with the Stars. So and in terms of they were formed in twenty seventeen, it's a team of twelve and there are plenty of former governor and government employees who are working on this team where they are trying to uncover the mysteries in the skies. And his wife specifically said that her husband helped this organization to stars with military and technical scientific matters. So this is a guy who had information, who knows things that most of us don't know on a lot of things, but specifically on what the government knows about aliens. You know.
00:07:15
Speaker 1: But I was laughing at her, you know, I give her credit. She sounds like somebody who's been through enough, lived enough life, and she almost has a bit of a sense of humor, but she said, are you kidding me? It seems highly unlikely anybody's going to kidnap him to find out some outdated secrets, Like he didn't know that much in the first place, and certainly the stuff he knew was a long time ago. She was dismissive of it in such a way, and that's how she chose to say it kidnap him for outdated secrets.
00:07:43
Speaker 2: Yes, so if someone didn't kidnap him for outdated secrets, then the other operating theory is that aliens took him because he knows too much about them.
00:07:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's prevailing. I mean, what else do we have. Look, we're talking about and people are speaking about this in a lighter manner or because it has to do with aliens. But right now a woman is missing her husband, Yeah, for two weeks without a trace, and this does not sound good. Shed at least acknowledged and addressed some of the stuff that's out there, and I give her credit for that. But Robes, this is still I mean, Nancy Guthrie is on the back of your mind.
00:08:18
Speaker 2: It is because look, New Mexico, Arizona, they're obviously in this same type of area, the same type of terrain. You're talking about mass expanse of desert and highlands, and this is difficult terrain for searchers to go through just because of the sheer amount of it.
00:08:37
Speaker 1: We're not and there is no suggestion that anything that happened to Nancy Guthrie. No, certainly no connection, but certainly not. They're not similar in terms of they think there was foul play or something here. We're not to that point. But robes similar and that too. Elderly folks just up and disappear without a trace, and this is how this one has started.
00:09:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a fair just it's not that any authority is making a connection, but certainly there are similarities where it's the same area. It's elderly folks, they are vanished without a trace. There's no police, have no clue, they have no idea.
00:09:17
Speaker 1: And now, yes, the.
00:09:18
Speaker 2: FBI is officially involved with this now trying to find this general.
00:09:24
Speaker 1: But folks, we mentioned so many folks out there online and talking about theories and talking about aliens. Well, the wife of the general put out a statement and she spoke specifically to a lot of those theories, and I give her credit for her comments. We'll let you hear them say here.
00:09:52
Speaker 2: Welcome back to this episode of Amy and TJ, where there is a mystery growing around a miss retired major general. His name is William Neil McCasland. He was living in Albuquerque with his wife, sixty eight years old. Retired general. The problem for a lot of folks, or I say, the issue, the reason why it's making such national headlines. This is a general who worked at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, an air Force base known to be the headquarters of where this country has investigated alien life UFOs. You name it, General mcaslin, A lot of people believe knows the answers to all the mysteries surrounding extraterrestrial life. Not so much, his wife says. But as the search continues for him, he walked away from his home two weeks ago today, and the FBI is involved, Law enforcement is involved. The search is ongoing, and there is not a clue. You know what there is a clue? Can I Actually I forgot to mention I thought this was interesting. The only thing that police have found so far is a gray US Air Force sweatshirt. They found it about a mile from his home. There's no blood on it, and they haven't confirmed if it's actually his, but it would seem like that would probably be the case. But how about that just his sweatshirt a mile from his home, just on the ground with nothing else around.
00:11:27
Speaker 1: Know how they can't say that's his. I mean, obviously he'll be able to know what I'm saying. His wife would be able to look at it. I don't know why they're not saying it's his or not either, right. I thought it was bizarre they find this thing, And that said, the family hasn't confirmed whether or not it's his. It seems strange it is or it isn't. But hey, you remember all those black gloves around Nancy Guthrie's house that looked like the ones the guy on the ring cam was and it had nothing to do with nothing, So who knows.
00:11:55
Speaker 2: Us air force sweatshirt? So anyway, that's truly the only clue they have found. But his wife has gone on to Facebook, and she has, as you mentioned, tried to at least have a little bit of a light hearted outlook about some of the operating theories about out there about why or how he's gone missing. She wrote, Neil does not have any special knowledge about the extraterrestrial bodies and debris from the Roswell crash stored at right pat though 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. That is from his wife.
00:12:41
Speaker 1: No, she sounds a little frustrated, a little fed up, and maybe just kind of let something out. I mean, she's missing, her husband, has no idea where he is. Again, no foul play suspected here, and she sees all the stuff out there and it's probably annoying. I don't know how much of it is comical, but some of it can seem mean if you're sitting on that end. Possibly so good for her at least acknowledging it.
00:13:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. She says that morning she left to go I believe, to the doctors or to run an errand, and he was there. Everything seemed fine, and when she came back, he was just gone. They believe he left around eleven am Friday, February twenty seventh, and they are asking police have dogs, they have drones, they have helicopters. He supposedly has unspecified medical issues, but it's not supposed to be deeply concerning the way we heard about Nancy Guthrie needing her pills to stay alive. We haven't gotten anything on that level, but we know that law enforcement so far has gone door to door. They said they have literally knocked on the doors of six hundred homes and businesses trying to find any answers, any clues about where he may be. And much like the Nancy Guthrie case, we're hearing now from officials asking anyone in the area to look at their ring camera videos. They're trying to find any video, anything that could at least show where he may be. But again, it's so similar to the Guthrie case, and that this is out there. This isn't some metropolis where you've got people with cameras and street cams everywhere. This is a true mystery.
00:14:13
Speaker 1: We will keep an eye on this one like so many people are, but keep them in your thoughts as you're commenting out there or maybe cracking a joke or to or think some of it's funny having to do with these associations. You'll see a lot of those comments out there, but yeah, there's a woman out there and a family out there, and it's turning because they don't know what's happened to their loved one. We'll keep a close eye on this one. We always appreciate you spending some time with us on behalf of my dear Amy Robot. I'm TJ. Holmes. Talk soon.