Twist in missing UFO general as wife says he 'planned not to be found' in chilling 911
08:43 ET, 03 Apr 2026
A missing persons case involving a retired Air Force General tied to UFO research has taken a strange turn after a 911 call indicated that he "planned not to be found".
Retired US Air Force General William McCasland has been missing since he left his Albuquerque, New Mexico, home on February 27.
William once commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson in Ohio, a site that for decades has been dogged by rumours it stored alien bodies from the 1947 Roswell crash in New Mexico and hosts clandestine government UFO research.
William is thought to have been involved in the Pentagon's advanced aerospace research.
Further fuelling questions, William apparently left his wearable devices, phone and glasses at home, changed his clothes and left his vehicles behind, despite reports that he was something of an outdoorsman.
It comes after Donald Trump insiders claimed he has a bombshell UFO speech ready to go.
A recording of the 911 call made by his wife, Susan McCasland Wilkerson, to report him missing has now come to light. Eerily, she gave the impression that she believed he didn't plan to be found.
As revealed by the Law&Crime Network on YouTube, she said in the call: "My name is Susan Wilkerson. My husband is missing. And he's…it's been about three hours, and I have some indication that he must have planned not to be found.
"He's left his phone. He changed his clothes into I don't know what. I think he's on foot. All of our cars and bicycles are in the garage. I left for a doctor's appointment at about 11:10.
"And he was here at that time at the house, and I got back from that at noon, and he was gone. He turned it off and left it behind, which seems kind of deliberate because he's always got his phone.
He has a smartwatch. I don't know if that's with him or not."
April, the 911 dispatcher, asked Susan if her husband had ever done this before, to which she replied that he'd never done anything "remotely like it" and was "very responsible".
She added that he was "facing some medical issues" and they'd been seeing a doctor for "both physical and mental" health, specifically mentioning short-term memory loss, anxiety, and sleeplessness.
Next, the dispatcher asked Susan if William had any weapons. She confirmed that he had pistols, rifles and a gun safe, but she was unable to tell if anything was missing from it.
Susan added: "Other than saying if his brain and body keep deteriorating, he didn't want to live like that. But it seemed to me that was just a 'Man, I hate how this is going' kind of thing. Cuz I told him, 'Yes, you do. Yes, you do'."
He reportedly suffered what was described as "mental fog" before he vanished. According to Lt. Kyle Woods of the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office, however, they had "no indication" that he was "disoriented or confused".
He said at a press conference: "There's no indication, and we are not putting forward that Mr. McCasland was disoriented or confused.
Arguably, he would still be the most intelligent person in the room that any of us would be in. Highly intelligent, highly capable."
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