Written by Andrew K. Arnett
It’s been over a month since General Neil McCasland went missing and we are no closer to finding out what has happened to him than the first day of his disappearance. What is more disconcerting is that the case is opening up a Pandoras Box of sinister connections which link it to other disappearances and deaths of U.S. astrophysicists. Is there a conspiracy to abduct and/or take out the brain trust of our aerospace industry? Congressmen and other authority figures are voicing their concern on the matter.
The ARNETT FILES has been following the case closely and what follows is a mega thread of articles we’ve published over the course of the past month. Let’s begin by revisiting those first critical moments of McCasland’s disappearance.
It was on the morning of Friday, February 27, at about 10:00 a.m. when a repairman visited the home of Neil McCasland located in the Quail Run Court NE area of Albuquerque, New Mexico. There was a brief interaction, nothing out of the ordinary, and the repairman was on his way.
His wife, Susan McCasland Wilkerson, was the last to see him as she left the house for a medical appointment at 11:10 a.m. When she returned less than one hour later, at 12:04 p.m., Neil McCasland was gone. Vanished without a trace, leaving behind phone, prescription glasses and wearable devices. What is unaccounted for are McCasland’s wallet, red backpack and .38 caliber revolver with leather holster.
At 3:07 p.m. that day, Neil McCasland was reported missing and a Silver Alert was issued by the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office. The ongoing search is being conducted by the New Mexico Department of Public Safety and the New Mexico State Police Search and Rescue system, with assistance from volunteer teams.
They are utilizing all the resources at their disposal with helicopters and drones in the air; ground teams and K-9 unites on the ground. The ongoing search is focusing on the Northeast Heights/Sandia Foothills area. 700 homes have been canvased but here is the strange thing, no confirmed video of McCasland has surfaced showing him leaving the area and no direction of travel has been established.
Part 1 (Published 18 March 2026 @ Substack)
A story broke out on February 27 and it was the kind of thing that should have gotten more traction in the media than it did at the time and that was most probably due to outbreak of war in the Middle East on the following day. Nonetheless, in the subsequent weeks that have ensued, the mainstream media has picked up on this matter which the internet has been following closely since the get go. I am referring here to the missing persons case regarding William Neil McCasland.
McCasland is a retired U.S. Air Force major general and astronautical engineer. He served as the commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, overseeing billions of dollars in military science and technology research. McCasland, 68, disappeared from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 27, 2026. Authorities issued a Silver Alert due to concern for his safety and began searching with local law enforcement and federal assistance. Reports say he left behind his phone and glasses, while some personal items such as his wallet and outdoor gear were missing.
Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office have found no signs of foul play, but the FBI are involved due to McCasland’s top-secret past commanding the Air Force Research Laboratory. The case remains an active missing-person investigation, and officials have said there is no confirmed explanation yet for what happened.
The disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mother in the previous month dominated the headlines for weeks. But as mentioned, this story was a slow creeper, and in my estimates, far creepier. As well, there are tangential connections with more far reaching consequences to national security and other sensitive topics. Even more mysterious is that McCasland, due to his position of command, has many links to alleged UFO programs. Why did the General go missing? What did he know? Did his position in the military have something to do with his disappearance? Let’s dive into this.
Involvement with UFO disclosure groups
There was an email sent by Tom DeLong on 25 January 2016 to John Podesta with the subject heading “General McCasland.” The contents of the email read:
“He mentioned he’s a “skeptic,” he’s not. I’ve been working with him for four months. I just got done giving him a four hour presentation on the entire project a few weeks ago.
“Trust me, the advice is already been happening on how to do all this. 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 Paterson Air Force Base. General McCasland was in charge of the exact laboratory up to a couple of years ago.
“He not only knows what I’m trying to achieve, he helped assemble my advisory team. He’s a very important man.”
There is a lot to construe from this missive. At the very least, we have an indication that the General had more than just a passing knowledge of UFOs. Rather, he was in an advisory role and even, a position of authority. As DeLong points out, McCasland “helped assemble my advisory team. He’s a very important man.” DeLong’s “advisory team” references UFO heavies including Lue Elizondo, Puthoff, Semivan, etc.
McCasland’s wife
McCasland’s wife, Susan McCasland Wilkerson, weighed in on her husband’s UFO interests, writing on Facebook, “It is true that Neil had a brief association with the UFO community. This connection is not a reason for someone to abduct Neil. Neil does not have any special knowledge about the ET bodies and debris from the Roswell crash stored at Wright-Patt.”
Wilkerson wrote about the ongoing search for her missing husband, saying, “dozens of searchers on foot, both official and friends and neighbors of Neil’s … horseback searchers, drones with different capabilities, helicopters, three different types of search dogs, neighborhood canvassing and looking for Ring or wildlife videos.”
Curiously, Wilkerson posted a follow up comment on her Facebook account that some would consider cavalier, considering the gravity of the situation. She writes, “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.”
Neil McCasland is connected to another missing person
Neil McCasland has been missing now for over two weeks. Every day that goes by, the case seems to take a more sinister turn. His connections to another missing person’s case is the latest bizarre twist.
On 22 June 2025, 60-year old Monica Jacinto Reza disappeared while hiking through the Angeles National Forest near the Mount Waterman area, located 15 miles from downtown Los Angeles. A multi-agency task force was deployed including the Ventura County East Valley Search and Rescue Team. The Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station sent Air Rescue 5 and advanced technologies to assist in the search. She has still not been found.
So how is this even connected to the missing General?
Turns out Ms. Reza was co-inventor and patent holder of Mondaloy, a nickel-based superalloy utilized inside next-generation U.S. rocket engines. She has a long history of working for defense contractors and most recently, for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Here is the connection—Reza’s research was funded by Air Force Research Laboratory, a lab headed by retired Major General Neil McCasland.
The story gets weirder
An unusual thing occurred on 26 June 2025, just four days into the search for the missing Ms. Reza. As reported by The Sentinel Briefing @thesentinelnet, someone had created a memorial grave for Ms. Reza on the website Find A Grave designating her burial as a “green burial.” A green burial refers to a body that has been interred into the earth with no embalming and if there is a container, then one that is biodegradable. It should be reiterated that at the time of this posting, the search for Reza was in high gear. To whit, someone had declared Monica Jacinto Reza dead and buried before any evidence to the point.
Now, what could possibly be the motive behind that? The fact is, to this day, the search is ongoing and no body has yet been discovered. What does this all add up to? We don’t know for sure, but the mysterious disappearance of these two high profile aerospace engineers could be connected in more ways than mere coincidence.
Part 2: Messages from Null Island (Published 23 March 2026 on Substack)
We are now into our third week in the search for Neil McCasland and there is still no sign of the missing retired Air Force general who was last seen on February 27, 2026 at his home in Albuquerque, NM.
Social media sleuths have reported that an account on X is in fact a potential burner account linked to the missing General. A “burner account” would refer to an account with an anonymous profile created to discuss specific, often sensitive topics while keeping the user unnamed. If the account is in fact linked to McCasland, then it should be considered an important piece of evidence in this ongoing missing person’s case.
The account in question is ELECTRIC PROPULSIVE SPACECRAFT SYSTEMS @tmbspaceships which joined in November 2022 and was known to post often, if not daily, up until February 27, 2026. Then the account goes silent. That is the day that McCasland went missing, giving us the first clue of the link.
The account bio reads: “ELECTRIC PROPULSIVE SPACECRAFT and SPACECRAFT SYSTEMS MANUFACTURING. Retired 38 year Active Duty USAF PhD Engineer. AFIT/AETC/AFMC – UT/OU.”
This is in alignment with McCasland’s bio in that he served in the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Air Education and Training Command (AETC), and Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC). Both the AFMC and AFIT are located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base which were run by McCasland from 2011 to 2013.
McCasland was commissioned in 1979 and retired about 2013 which is about 34 years, which is close to the indicated “retired 38 years” which may be taking into account his continued work in the field after official retirement, wether as consultant or otherwise. The “UT/OU” may refer to schools attended but has not yet been identified, which is nonetheless consistent with obfuscation found in burner accounts.
Let’s run this by AI
I asked AI to analyze the account’s contents and determine the probability that it does in fact belong to McCasland. AI responded:
“Conclusion based on the evidence, there is strong circumstantial support that @TMBSPACESHIPS is a burner account operated by the missing General William N. McCasland. The bio’s exact match to his career (retired USAF PhD engineer with AFIT/AETC/AFMC ties), the account’s focus on advanced propulsion and classified tech aligning with his AFRL/space weapons experience, the abrupt silence on the day of his disappearance (February 27, 2026), and corroborating reports from media and online communities all point to this connection. While not definitive (e.g., no explicit self-identification or forensic link like IP tracing), the patterns suggest it was used to anonymously discuss sensitive or fringe topics he couldn’t under his real name. If confirmed, it could provide clues to his mindset or activities leading up to his disappearance, but currently, it remains speculative amid the ongoing search.”
Messages from Null Island
Here is something curious; the location for the Twitter account @TMBSPACESHIPS is listed as 0EARTH, 0SOL, 0MW,1UNV,1INF.m. So where is that? The coordinates refer to Null Island. Null Island is a fictional landmass situated in the Atlantic Ocean in the Gulf of Guinea, about 370 miles south of Ghana. What is there? There is no actual land mass there. There is only a weather buoy there permanently moored and known as Station 13010.
Google explains that “Mapmakers and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) use this marker to flag geocoding errors. If a piece of data has missing or corrupted coordinates, software often defaults it to zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude (0°N 0°E) causing it to appear at this location.
Did McCasland set these coordinates himself and does it offer a clue to him going missing, as it signals a location where data goes “missing?”
Was USAF General Neil McCasland taken out for what he knows about UFOs?
The disappearance of General McCasland is kicking the hornets nest on a topic that has been buzzing in the disclosure community for some time, and that regards the safety of UFO government whistleblowers. Indeed, this was the topic of discussion in Congress at the hearing on 9 September 2025 entitled “Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection.”
Now, everyone is hoping for the best outcome and that the General will be found and returned unharmed to his family. However, there are fears that the General’s access to Top Secret information regarding UFOs may have led to foul play. Let’s be direct—was the General taken out by a hit squad for what he knows? Or did he go into hiding and is safe?
Now check this out. There is a post on @TMBSPACESHIPS that reads:
“Most engineers retire to the free House on Us military base of their choice and choose to stay quiet for fear of being killed by Boeing and Raytheon Hitmen.”
It is a remarkable statement and if the account really does belong to McCasland, then the post may give us some clues as to the fate of the missing General.
On a new episode of WEAPONIZED podcast hosted by Jeremy Corbell, Mathew Brown claims that UFO whistleblowers are being targeted by U.S. intelligence agencies and service members. Those targeted include himself, David Grusch, Dylan Borland, Lue Elizondo and others. Brown alleges the use of intelligence methods, disinformation and psychological operations traced to legacy program security. Brown stated:
“Worst than that they are taking human intelligence methods and applying them to us in order to disrupt our lives. Basically to drive us to commit suicide or become so ostracized from our friends and family that we are no longer a threat. Specifically, they are sending Office of Special Investigations agents to people’s families to break apart their families, to break apart marriages. To this day, to pull children away from their parents. And these are not parents who are whistleblowers, they are people who have helped us.”
Journalist Ross Coulthart acknowledges Brown’s claims, posting on X:
“I can corroborate Matthew Brown’s claims that a coordinated legacy UAP program disinformation operation is being run against whistleblowers. I received a message from an insider in one of those smear operations, who was disgusted by what he was being ordered to do: hide and discredit discussion of UAP legacy programs online.”
It is a sobering thought, as the search for Neil McCasland enters its 24th day.
Part 3: A series of deaths and disappearances linked to the McCasland Case (Published 27 March 2026 on Substack)
Exactly one month ago, on February 27, retired Air Force Gen. William McCasland disappeared from the face of the earth. The search for McCasland is ongoing and the missing person’s case has generated a lot of discussion and speculation. Today, Rep. Tim Burchett chimed in on the subject, suspecting foul play is involved in McCasland’s disappearance. As well, he feels the case is linked to a series of deaths and disappearances taking place over the past year involving U.S. defense officials and scientists linked to aerospace, astrophysics and nuclear tech.
Law enforcement is currently treating these incidents as isolated cases but Burchett as well as former FBI official Chris Swecker are asking for a unified investigation due to the overlaps and potential threats to national security.
Just today in fact a story in the New York Post identified yet another unsolved missing person’s case that has the tell tale markers that link it to the McCasland case. This case involves Melissa Casias, a married mother who vanished on June 25, 2025. She was last seen on camera walking alone on a highway in New Mexico without her phone, wallet or keys after telling her family members she was planning to work from home that day.
Casias works as an administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) which is known for housing the Manhattan Project which was responsible for developing the first nuclear bombs. Former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker told the Mail, “In a classified lab, or just a high clearance lab, they would basically be in the know on what’s going on … and it wouldn’t be the first time their administrative assistant has been targeted.”
Curiously, Casias disappeared four days after Monica Reza went missing while hiking at a national park in California.
Neil McCasland Case Linked To Triple Murder/Suicide
In previous articles, we’ve discussed the connections between the disappearance of retired Air Force General Neil McCasland on February 27, and that of 60-year old NASA/JPL rocket scientist Monica Reza who vanished on 22 June 2025 while hiking in California. Reza worked at Aerojet Rocketdyne and her work on the metal alloy “Mondaloy” was funded by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), headed by Neil McCasland. AFRL is located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base which is located in Ohio.
Here is another connection to Wright-Patterson AFB and the AFRL.
On 30 October, 2025, it was reported that the deaths of three Wright-Patterson Air Force Base personnel in Ohio appeared to be the result of a double murder-suicide. The names of the deceased are 34-year old Jacob Prichard, Jamie Gustitus, 25, and Jaymee Prichard, 33.
Wright-Patterson AFB confirmed that Jacob Prichard worked in the Air Force Research Laboratory. As mentioned, McCasland headed the AFRL. Prichard is accused of killing the other two victims, and then himself.
Jaymee Prichard, one of the victims, was married to Jacob and she worked at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. The other victim, 1st Lt. Jaime Gustitus, worked in the 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson AFB.
According to the police, on October 25, Jacob Prichard drove to the home of Jamie Gustitus, located in Sugarcreek Township. He broke into Gustitus’ home at 2:00 a.m. and murdered her. According to the police, Gustitus lived alone and knew both Jacob Prichard and his wife Jaymee Prichard through their work at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Jacob Prichard then left the murder scene and at 4:30 a.m. drove into the parking lot of the West Milton Municipal Building. Minutes later, Jacob Prichard killed himself after leaving the trunk of his car open. Inside the trunk was the body of his wife Jaymee Prichard, who was presumedly murdered by Jacob earlier.
West Milton, Ohio police are unsure of where Jaymee Prichard was murdered, but presume there are three crime scenes:
1. Huber Heights – location where the Prichards lived.
2. Sugarcreek Township – location where Gustitus was killed.
3. West Milton Municipal Building – location where Jacob Prichard killed himself.
A multiple agency task force were investigating the case, including the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
In response to the crime, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base issued the following statement:
“We are deeply saddened by this tragic event, and our thoughts and prayers are with the families and loved ones affected. We stand with them as they navigate this unimaginable pain, and we offer our sincerest condolences to all impacted by this heartbreaking loss.
We are committed to fully investigating this incident and ensuring the families and co-workers of the victims receive the support they need during this difficult time. – Lt. Gen. Linda Hurry, Deputy Commander, Air Force Materiel Command.”
711th Human Performance Wing and Links to Neil McCasland
Jacob Prichard, suspected of killing two others before taking his own life, worked at the Air Force Research Laboratory located at Wright-Patterson, which has been linked to the missing retired General Neil McCasland. One of his victims, 1st Lt. Jaime Gustitus, worked in the 711th Human Performance Wing based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio.
Turns out the 711th Human Performance Wing (711 HPW), located at the same base, is also under the control of the Air Force Research Laboratory. 711th HPW was activated on March 26, 2008, and is one of 10 entities under the control of the Air Force Research Laboratory. Neil McCasland was of course in charge of Air Force Research Laboratory.
According to Wikipedia, “the Wing’s primary focus areas are aerospace medicine, human effectiveness, science and technology, and human systems integration.” Coincidently, earlier today, Shane Christopher Frakes @ShaneFrakes posted on X information pertaining to the 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson. He writes:
“The 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson has been conducting directed-energy bioeffects research for over 50 years. Their own mission statement says, “exploit the bioeffects of directed energy,”. They cover 100 kilohertz to 94 gigahertz out of what they call the world’s largest RF bioeffects research facility. The Air Force patented the Frey effect in 2002, transmitting intelligible speech into the human skull using modulated RF.”
Now, this is the same technology reputedly behind the so-called ‘Havana Syndrome.” As well, Frakes sites a “striking overlap” between the symptoms of RF exposure to UAP encounter cases including headaches, vertigo, burns, cardiac palpitations, etc. as discussed by Lue Elizondo.
This connection broadens the overlapping areas which the disappearance of Neil McCasland touches upon, suggesting foul play with national security potentials. This of course should raise eyebrows, if not outright concern. Rep. Tim Burchett had this to say today in regards to the subject:
“Something dark is going on. I know these scientists and researchers. They have testified. We’ve got to get to the bottom of it. It’s just too much, too much is going on right now — And by the way, I’m not suicidal.” – Rep. Tim Burchett
Andrew K. Arnett is a writer for New Dawn Magazine and author of the bookThe Crowley Conspiracy available on Amazon.
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