Chilling bodycam reveals UFO-linked Air Force general met shadowy Pentagon unit before he vanished… and his perplexed wife’s reaction

Newly released body camera footage has revealed a shocking meeting between a missing Air Force general and members of the Pentagon’s dark space unit just hours before he disappeared.

Police officers in New Mexico were recording speaking to a witness who allegedly had dinner with William Neil McCasland the night before he disappeared without a trace on February 27.

McCasland is a retired Air Force Major General who had connections to both U.S. nuclear research and classified UFO-related programs throughout his career.

Body camera footage, Obtained by Law and Crime NetworkHe recorded a phone call with an unidentified woman who said McCasland met her and members of the U.S. Space Force at a restaurant in Albuquerque around 6 p.m. local time.

Officially, the Space Force equips the military for operations in space by protecting satellites and other assets from threats, but the armed forces’ newest branch also tracks unexplained space objects such as UFOs as part of national security.

The anonymous caller claimed to be working with McCasland, who is still a member of the Kirtland Partnership, a nonprofit organization that works to preserve and expand Kirtland Air Force Base, a major military research facility and nuclear weapons laboratory.

Previously McCasland’s wife, Susan Wilkerson, had posted online that the retired general had only had ‘very extensive clearances’ since retiring from the Air Force 13 years ago, but the new witness revealed the 68-year-old was still a key figure in secret government circles.

‘The man was head of the Air Force Research Laboratory up to the point where his names appeared in the UFO documents that were finalized for release,’ the witness said. ‘He’s at that depth, so he has a very high security clearance.’

The sheriff’s office has issued a Silver Alert, a public reporting system used in the United States to locate missing elderly people or individuals with Alzheimer’s, dementia or other intellectual disabilities.

However, the woman who met with McCasland said that something went wrong during her meeting with the Space Force and that the retired general did not act like himself that night.

‘I was shocked when I saw the warning this morning because what I noticed on Thursday evening [February 26] It was because he wasn’t his usual self. ‘He was a bit aloof and quiet and you know that happens to people.’

Newly obtained body camera footage also revealed a conversation between Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office officers and Wilkerson, revealing that McCasland’s disappearance caught him completely off guard.

But the retired general was prescribed a new medication hours before he disappeared, which was supposed to help combat the various symptoms he was having that pointed to cognitive decline, he said.

“Today, he took a medication that the doctor prescribed last night and was supposed to help him sleep,” he said in the obtained body camera recording. Law and Crime Sidebar with Jesse Weber.

“With her weight gain she lost about 20 kilos for no apparent reason and today she woke up feeling anxious and said: “Well, I slept better but it’s like the after effects of a bad hangover.” I’m just foggy. “I can’t get the motivation to do anything.”‘

It was reported that McCasland was seeing doctors due to his physical and mental problems. Before police arrived at the home, Wilkerson told 911 dispatchers that he feared the veteran’s brain was “deteriorating.”

He was last seen leaving his home without his phone, wearables or any identification, and his wife told authorities she believed McCasland was ‘planning not to be found.’

McCasland reportedly has ties to U.S. government projects involving nuclear research and UFO-related technology. A witness claims to have met with US Space Force on February 26

McCasland had changed his clothes and taken only a pair of boots and his .38-caliber revolver before disappearing around 11 a.m. that morning. There has been no trace of the general since then.

The general was previously responsible for both Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico and the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson in Ohio.

For decades, UFO enthusiasts have linked both facilities to secret studies of advanced aviation technology and unexplained phenomena; however, officials claim they are focusing on national security and experimental defense projects.

Since the unit’s founding in 2019, the military has publicly acknowledged that Space Force has a significant presence in both regions.

The branch uses Kirtland for Space Systems Command and the Space Rapid Capabilities Office. Meanwhile, the Space Force manages the National Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson.

The Ohio military complex has a long history of UFO-related rumors; former government scientists Hal Puthoff and Eric Davis claim that debris from the alleged 1947 UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico, was taken to Wright-Patterson for examination.

Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett told WABC radio in March that McCasland was a key figure in America’s secret investigations into UFOs and extraterrestrial technology.

Burchett said: ‘That man [who] He had a lot of nuclear secrets. Several sources have told me that he is the gatekeeper of UFO events.’

Just days before the Pentagon began releasing declassified UFO files to the public in early May, Air Force veteran David Grusch specifically named McCasland as one of the officers responsible for the recovery of non-human craft and reverse engineering of UFOs.

Grusch, who is now a UFO whistleblower and advisor to Missouri Congressman Eric Burlison, claimed that the general did not cooperate with lawmakers who wanted to interview people connected to America’s alleged contact with aliens.

Grusch told Chris Farrell on Judicial Watch: ‘They already have a list of some hostile people running these programs. ‘Unfortunately one of these men, retired Major General Neil McCasland, is currently missing, which concerns me greatly.’

New body camera footage also revealed officers spoke with neighbors of McCasland after his disappearance, including a former subordinate of the general who lived in the area.

‘He was my boss. “My boss’s boss’s boss,” the man told Bernalillo County Sheriff’s officers.

‘I informed him when he visited Boston in 2000. I told him about the projects I had done. He was a very scary colonel. He’s a Ph.D. I have a PhD, but just like he has a PhD in another branch of science, engineering. and then he ran the scientific laboratory and is very smart.’

Although he admitted that he had not seen McCasland for a long time, the scientist described him as ‘genuinely honest’ and believed that something would be wrong if the general left without warning.

Another New Mexico resident was seen telling police he knew of possible trails homeless people might currently be using and even an old horse tunnel under a nearby road, but nothing suggested foul play.

McCasland was last seen near Quail Run Court NE in Albuquerque, just after leaving his own home while his wife was away for a doctor’s appointment.

Since March, McCasland’s disappearance has been linked to numerous other missing persons cases, all of which involved former or current government employees and scientists working at facilities the general oversaw.

These cases include NASA scientist Monica Reza, government contractor Steven Garcia, and Los Alamos National Laboratory employees Melissa Casias and Anthony Chavez.

Each disappeared in 2025, and all three vanished in much the same manner as McCasland; Garcia, Casias and Chavez left their homes on foot, leaving their phones and identification behind.