NEW: Chilling 911 Call Linked To Missing Air Force General Reveals Bombshell Development

A newly released 911 call is adding a grim new layer to the mystery surrounding retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, the 68-year-old who vanished without a trace in New Mexico and has since become the subject of intense online speculation tied to UFO lore and other high-profile disappearances.

In audio obtained by the Law&Crime Network, McCasland’s wife, Susan Wilkerson, tells a dispatcher she feared her husband “had planned not to be found” after discovering key personal items still at their home.

“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,” Wilkerson said roughly three hours after McCasland disappeared.

She described the missing phone as a major red flag, telling the dispatcher, “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.”

Wilkerson later said authorities did not suspect foul play, but she noted McCasland left home with only a pair of boots and his .38-caliber revolver. She also told 911 that the retired officer did not take his prescription glasses or his wearable devices, leaving behind tools that could have helped others track him or reach him.

In the call, the dispatcher asks whether McCasland had any mental health diagnosis. Wilkerson replied that he had recently been dealing with anxiety and short-term memory loss, and she said he had been struggling with sleep issues. At one point, she told the dispatcher McCasland feared his brain was “deteriorating.”

The dispatcher also asks about firearms in the home and whether any were missing. Wilkerson said her husband had a gun safe and “quite a number of pistols and rifles,” though she did not realize at the time that one handgun was gone.

🚨 HE DIDN’T JUST GO MISSING — HE VANISHED ON PURPOSE

Chilling 911 audio from the wife of Neil McCasland is now public — and it changes everything.

“He must have planned not to be found.”

Let that sink in.

This wasn’t confusion.
This wasn’t an accident.
This was deliberate.… pic.twitter.com/UMct9zw7pW

— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) April 3, 2026

While she acknowledged the worries McCasland had voiced about his health, Wilkerson pushed back on the idea that he intended to hurt himself, explaining that his comments sounded more like frustration than a concrete plan.

“Other than saying if his brain body keeps 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,” Wilkerson said in the recording later aired on Law&Crime’s Sidebar with Jesse Weber.

The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office issued a Silver Alert for McCasland, a notification system typically used when a missing senior may have Alzheimer’s, dementia or another cognitive impairment. Investigators said he was last seen near Quail Run Court NE in Albuquerque around 11 a.m. local time on Feb. 27, and authorities have not announced any confirmed sightings since.

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McCasland’s case has drawn outsized attention because of his background. He previously led the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, a facility long associated in pop culture with UFO conspiracy theories. He also served at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, which has connections in the region to national security and research sites, including Los Alamos.

Officials have not publicly said whether any of those elements are relevant to the investigation. For now, the 911 call is the clearest window yet into what the family saw in the first hours after McCasland disappeared, and why his wife believed the circumstances looked deliberate.

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