“Though at this point with absolutely no sign of him, maybe the best hypothesis is that aliens beamed him up to the mothership,” wrote Neil McCasland’s wife

Major General William N. McCasland.Credit : U.S. Air Force

The wife of a missing retired Air Force major general is setting the record straight about certain details surrounding her husband’s case.

Neil McCasland, who retired as commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Borce, was last seen at his Albuquerque home on Feb. 27. Since then, much has been made about his ties to UFO research, which is one of several bits of “misinformation” his wife pushed back on in a recent Facebook post.

“It is true that Neil had a brief association with the UFO community through Tom DeLonge, former frontman for Blink-182 and founder of the organization To The Stars,” wrote Susan McCasland Wilkerson. “Neil worked with Tom for a bit shortly after his Air Force retirement as an unpaid (Neil’s choice) consultant on military and technical/scientific matters to lend verisimilitude to Tom’s fiction book and media activities.”

According to his biography on the Air Force website, while at the Ohio base, McCasland managed a “$2.2 billion science and technology program as well as additional customer funded research and development of $2.2 billion.”

He served that role from 2011 until his retirement in October 2013 — and as noted in an article published on The Ohio State University’s website, the base has long been linked to UFOs.

However, in her Facebook post, McCasland’s wife claimed that her husband “does not have any special knowledge” related to his time there.

“Though at this point with absolutely no sign of him, maybe the best hypothesis is that aliens beamed him up to the mothership,” she wrote. “However, no sightings of a mothership hovering above the Sandia Mountains have been reported.”

She went on to stress that while her husband did have access “to some highly classified programs and information,” since he retired 13 years ago “it seems quite unlikely that he was taken” in order to extract what would now be “very dated secrets.”

Although a silver alert mentioned he had unspecified “medical issues, which caused a concern for his safety, his wife said that her husband does not have dementia. (In their latest update, officials said the silver alert was “based on information available early in the investigation” and that they would not be releasing “medical details” or “speculate about his state of mind.)

She went on to say that he did not receive a “concerning Friday-morning telephone call to a close relative.”

“All the thoughts and prayers from around the country are much appreciated,” she added. “I will update if/when any real information comes in.”

Since McCasland’s disappearance from his residence on Quail Run Court, investigators have canvassed more than 700 homes, requesting security video and information from neighbors, and conducted drone operations, ground searches and K9 searches, according to the most recent update from the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office.

The FBI Albuquerque Field Office has also gotten involved in the search, which the sheriff’s office said was “standard practice when it has a tool, tactic, or technique that may benefit the investigation.”

Officials said that items unaccounted for in the McCasland residence include the missing man’s hiking boots, wallet, and a .38 caliber revolver with a leather holster, while his phone and prescription glasses were left behind at the home.

Additionally, the department said that a U.S. Air Force sweatshirt was found just over a mile from his residence, but officials have not confirmed that it belonged to him.

Officials continue to urge everyone in the surrounding area to check security camera or phone footage and to submit anything that might help.

“BCSO continues to pursue all credible leads and follow up on every tip received. While there is currently no evidence indicating foul play, investigators are examining all available information as the case remains active,” they wrote.