Retired Air Force general vanishes in 1-hour window from home, gun and wallet missing

Retired Air Force Major Gen. William "Neil" McCasland vanished wrong a one-hour model portion his woman was retired for an appointment, leaving down his telephone and glasses — portion a weapon and his wallet stay unaccounted for, according to authorities successful Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office released a caller timeline Thursday evening describing the 68-year-old aerospace engineer's past known movements, astir 2 weeks aft his disappearance and aft the FBI joined the hunt effort.

He had an enactment with a location repairman astir 10 a.m. connected Feb. 27, the time helium went missing.

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A divided representation showing missing retired Air Force Major Gen. Neil McCasland successful the green, button-up garment helium was past seen wearing and successful his subject uniform. (Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office, Neil McCasland/Facebook, Kirtland Air Force Base)

Then helium vanished betwixt 11 a.m. and noon, portion his woman was retired of the location for an appointment. His phone, glasses and "wearable devices" were recovered successful the home. His wallet, hiking boots and a .38-caliber revolver are unaccounted for.

Search teams recovered a US Air Force sweatshirt conscionable implicit a mile from the home, but authorities person not confirmed it belonged to McCasland.

The sheriff's bureau said helium was past seen wearing a airy green, button-up outdoor garment with a button-down collar and 2 thorax pockets.

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Authorities issued a Silver Alert for Ret. Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland. (Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office )

He is described arsenic 5 feet, 11 inches gangly with achromatic hairsbreadth and bluish eyes and is believed to person near his residence connected foot. He is an avid outdoorsman and is known to often hike, run, and rhythm successful the Northeast Heights and the Sandia Foothills.

In a statement, BCSO asked residents connected Quail Run Court Northeast and roads starring to and from the country to "check and submit" location information video from betwixt 9 a.m. Friday, Feb. 27, and 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28.

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A divided representation showing missing retired Air Force Gen. William "Neil" McCasland successful hiking gear. He was past seen adjacent his location successful Albuquerque, New Mexico, connected Feb. 27. (McCasland family/Facebook)

Hikers who whitethorn person been wearing GoPro-style cameras oregon taking telephone footage successful the Sandia Foothills of Albuquerque are besides asked to cheque their footage and taxable thing that could assistance find McCasland.

Video tin beryllium submitted done the BCSO Axon Portal. The fig for the sheriff's missing persons portion is 505-468-7070. Anyone with accusation tin besides substance "BCSO" to 847411.

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The sheriff's office, FBI and different assisting agencies did not instantly spot immoderate signs of foul play, according to a connection released connected March 6.

"There has been nary denotation whatsoever of wherever helium mightiness be," his wife, Susan McCasland Wilkerson, wrote successful a Facebook station Friday. "There person been dozens of searchers connected foot, some authoritative and friends and neighbors of Neil's, who coordinate with the authoritative sources. There person besides been horseback searchers, drones with antithetic capabilities, helicopters, 3 antithetic types of hunt dogs, vicinity canvassing and looking for Ring oregon wildlife videos."

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Although determination is simply a metallic alert retired for McCasland, his woman said helium does not person dementia oregon Alzheimer's.

She besides downplayed his subject grounds arsenic a imaginable crushed for his disappearance.

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"It is existent that erstwhile Neil was successful the Air Force, helium had entree to immoderate highly classified programs and information," she wrote. "He retired from the AF astir 13 years agone and has had lone precise commonly held clearances since. It seems rather improbable that helium was taken to extract precise dated secrets from him."

Before his status successful 2013, McCasland was the commandant of the Air Force Research Laboratory astatine Wright-Patterson Air Force Base successful Ohio. The basal served arsenic the office for a subject programme monitoring unidentified flying objects from 1947 to 1969, according to the government.

He has a Ph.D. successful aerospace engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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However, helium has nary "special knowledge" astir extraterrestrials oregon Roswell, New Mexico, according to his wife, who appeared frustrated with the hunt effort's deficiency of progress.

"Though astatine this constituent with perfectly nary motion of him, possibly the champion proposal is that aliens beamed him up to the mothership," she added. "However, nary sightings of a mothership hovering supra the Sandia Mountains person been reported."