UFO cluster spotted over mysterious base tied to missing Air Force scientist

A massive cluster of unknown flying objects has been spotted near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, a military installation long rumored to be linked to UFO activity.

Witnesses near the Ohio base captured footage of the craft on April 8, showing a silent triangle of glowing lights moving in perfect formation before breaking apart in flight.

As the lights floated across the night sky, they appeared to slowly slide down, flicker, pulsate, and change their brightness individually.

Reports noted that this sighting was ‘no sound, no standard navigation lights, movement distinct from any known aircraft, drone swarm or satellite’.

The video was reportedly shot from Rainbow Lakes, a 60-acre outdoor recreation facility in Fairborn, about four miles from the base.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) has attracted renewed attention in recent months because its research laboratory is run by retired Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, who was previously reported to have disappeared earlier this year.

McCasland, 68, disappeared from his New Mexico home on Feb. 28, reportedly leaving with only hiking boots and a .38-caliber handgun.

He led the Air Force Research Laboratory from May 2011 until his retirement in 2013; This was a facility long associated with UFO lore, with materials allegedly seized after the 1947 Roswell incident.

WPAFB is pioneering advances in aerospace technology, advanced materials, sensors, human performance and artificial intelligence.

The Daily Mail has contacted WPAFB for comment on the video.

The clip gained a lot of attention on social media, where users debated whether the lights were extraterrestrials or paratroopers with flares.

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‘I agree it looks like this. One Reddit user noted that a freefall team, whether military or civilian, reached the final landing pile after their parachutes opened.

‘My problem with this is that the cloud ceiling is too low. If this is a training skip, such a low ceiling will result in it being postponed or cancelled.

‘Obviously the video is short and low-light so it’s hard to get an ideal grasp of everything. However, we appear to intermittently lose the visuality of the flares as they pass through the clouds.’

Another Reddit user joked: ‘They’re coming for more scientists,’ possibly referring to McCasland, who oversees the Air Force’s $2.2 billion science and technology program and additional customer-funded research.

William Neil McCasland, 68, led a laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base long associated with UFO lore.

As the lights floated across the night sky, they appeared to slowly slide down, flicker, pulsate, and change their brightness individually.

The retired general is said to have left his home on foot in February, but authorities have yet to find any clues to his whereabouts.

Because some of her personal belongings were left behind, investigators are trying to determine whether she left voluntarily or ran into problems shortly after leaving home.

A 911 call showing a police officer speaking to his wife, Susan Wilkerson, was released earlier this month and she is heard saying she ‘planned not to be present’.

‘He left his phone. He changed his clothes to… I don’t know what it was. I think it’s pedestrian. “All our cars and bikes are in the garage,” Wilkerson said about three hours after McCasland disappeared.

‘He turned it off and left it behind, which seems intentional because he always has his phone with him. He has a smart watch. “I don’t know if he has that,” Wilkerson continued in the audio obtained by Law&Crime Network.

The clip gained a lot of attention on social media, where users debated whether the lights were extraterrestrials or paratroopers with flares.

McCasland had not taken any of his wearable devices or prescription glasses, leaving him with no way to track him.

His name became associated with UFO issues after Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, released the 2016 WikiLeaks emails.

Musician Tom DeLonge, founder of Blink-182 and the UFO-focused To The Stars Academy (TTSA), referred to McCasland multiple times in emails, claiming that he advised him on disclosure issues and helped assemble an advisory team.

DeLonge also suggested in a podcast that he was advised by McCasland and several other named and unnamed individuals to slowly release UAP information from U.S. government or contractor sources to the American public.

Claiming that the US government and contractor groups already have free energy technology, sometimes called ground zero energy, that could make conventional energy sources obsolete, he said: ‘One inch of air could power the US for hundreds of years.’

DeLonge claimed that TTSA was prevented from publishing all information provided by government insiders, but that the organization sought investment from private sources to develop this technology for energy and aviation purposes.

He also noted that TTSA expects to create an anti-gravity vehicle, and the company’s SEC filing noted that its aerospace division is “dedicated to finding revolutionary breakthroughs in propulsion, energy and communications.”

An email linking McCasland to Wright-Patterson claimed that he had inspected the laboratory from which the Roswell materials were allegedly sent, and scheduling emails showed a scheduled meeting with DeLonge, Podesta and someone who signed as ‘Neil McC’, consistent with McCasland.

These allegations come from DeLonge and have not been verified by McCasland or official records.

There is no public evidence of his involvement in the recovery of UFO crashes, reverse engineering of non-human technology, or classified extraterrestrial programs.

His documented work focused on advanced aerospace research, fueling speculation in defense circles about experimental propulsion and unidentified phenomena.