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Retired U.S. Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland, 68, went missing on February 27 \u2014 and the search has intensified amid reports linking McCasland to highly-sensitive space weapons programs and rumors about Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).<\/p>\n
McCasland was last seen<\/a> near his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, around 11 a.m. local time \u2014 and according to officials, he left his phone behind and has not been in contact with any friends or family members in the nearly two weeks since he disappeared.<\/p>\n The retired astronautical engineer held degrees from the U.S. Air Force Academy, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University \u2014 and while serving in the Air Force, held a number of posts that gave him access to highly-sensitive information.<\/p>\n McCasland, as CNN reported<\/a>, served for a time at the Pentagon overseeing several programs related to space weaponry. He was the chief engineer on the Global Positioning System program within the Department of Defense, and served as program director for the Space Based Laser Project Office as well.<\/p>\n He also served for a time as commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, which has long been rumored to be the \u201cstorage\u201d facility where UFO debris from Roswell, New Mexico, was held. The Air Force has consistently denied that is the case, but Wright-Patterson was also home to Project Blue Book<\/a> \u2014 the military program that studied 12,618 reported UFO sightings between 1952 and 1969.<\/p>\n After his retirement, McCasland worked with Blink-182 musician Tom DeLonge as a consultant regarding UAP for DeLonge\u2019s company, To The Stars, Inc.<\/p>\n