does this bit have something to do with the thread topic?
McCasland was in the line of succession of being in charge of the research labs at Wright-Patterson
Did you mean chain of command?
Okay, Craigie from Wikipedia:
"(he was) deputy chief of the Air Technical Service's Engineering Division. He became chief of the division in August 1945 and was promoted to major general in July 1946.
In 1947, he became chief of the Research and Engineering Division at Headquarters Army Air Force. That October he was appointed Director of Research and Development under the deputy chief of staff for material at Headquarters U.S. Air Force, and the following September returned to Wright-Patterson as commandant of the U.S.
Air Force Institute of Technology."
And McCasland:
"In May 2011, McCasland left
Washington for his final posting, assuming command of
Air Force Research Laboratory at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
Ohio, a position he held until his retirement in October 2013.
[1] At AFRL, he led billions of dollars in advanced materials sciences and future weapons research across one of the largest scientific centers in the Department of Defense.
[1]"
McCasland's UFO connection:
"McCasland's involvement with the topic of
unidentified flying objects became public when
WikiLeaks released an archive of
Hillary Clinton Campaign chairman
John Podesta's email records in 2016.
[17] The archive of documents was obtained from a
data breach by
Fancy Bear, a hacking group which the
United States Government alleges is associated with military intelligence assets of the Russian Federation.
[18][19][20][21]
Podesta's involvement in UFO disclosure initiatives is well documented throughout his service in both the
Clinton and
Obama administrations; DeLonge led
To The Stars, a nonprofit associated with the UFO disclosure movement.
[17] The pair's collaboration on seemingly
fringe science led some to speculate that public officials like McCasland were manipulating DeLonge into developing a UFO cover story for new classified American defense technology of a terrestrial origin.
[22][23][24] Other speculation focused on a relationship between McCasland and Michael Duggin, an Australian-American scientist with AFRL at
Kirtland Air Force Base,
New Mexicowho spent years of his Air Force career in research on UFO phenomena.
[24] Duggin was an assistant to
J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer who led the Air Force's infamous
Project Blue Book, one of the first investigations of reported encounters with UFOs by the United States Government.
[24]"
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So, I knew someone who knew Craigie, and I interviewed her. Well-connected, upstanding member of the community. I met her and learned she had lived in LA during the "Battle of Los Angeles"!and we got talking. She was very old, but had been the neighbor of Craigie. He told her that UFOs were real and we shouldn't be afraid of them, and that he couldn't talk about it because he had promised the Air Force that he wouldn't. She said he always seemed very distracted, and apparently had photos on the walls in his study that he would take down before guests arrived so that they wouldn't be alarmed. She had no interest in UFOs, wonderful woman who is passed now. She would have been all over the History Channel if things had gone differently…. I think my eyes visibly popped out of my head when she told me this stuff. I had brought the topic of UFOs up because she had been in LA during the infamous incident. I made a point of asking elderly folks if they had had any unusual sky-related experiences, as many who had lived through the '40s and '50s were still around, and I had already had my own two experiences.
From Google AI:
Lieutenant General Laurence C. Craigie
was a key U.S. Army Air Forces officer involved in the immediate aftermath of the 1947 Roswell UFO incident. As Chief of the Engineering Division at Wright Field, he visited Roswell shortly after debris was discovered, amid reports that he authorized or oversaw the investigation, fueling speculation regarding a high-level cover-up.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune +3
Air Force has been dead silent through all of this recent stuff.
