Mysterious disappearance of UFO-linked Air Force general sparks search

[Montauk]

I knew a person (now passed), who knew General Craigie (director of Wright-Patterson laboratories around Roswell time); he told her as child UFOs were real.

…and you expect us to believe this with no evidence? Also, what does this have to do with the topic at hand?

 

[John J.]

His wife debunked this rumor on Facebook recently.

So what was the Silver Alert based on?

 

[Rick Robson]

…and you expect us to believe this with no evidence? Also, what does this have to do with the topic at hand?

At least he brought up some informative posts about the thread's topic. Do you have something informative to share?
But of course, evidence is rather what we actually need at this point for that matter.

 

[JMartJr]

His wife debunked this rumor on Facebook recently.

Sourcing that would be helpful.

But they've been conducting an extraordinarily extensive search. People are searching on horseback, with dogs, helicopters, drones, local FBI, search and rescue, police and sheriffs department, and Air Force Special Investigations.

Is that an extensive search of the area he went missing in New Mexico, or an extensive nationwide search? If the former, should the title of this thread be amended, @Mick West

 

[Rick Robson]

Sourcing that would be helpful.

I don't use Facebook, but if you want the exact URL, it should be a post on this account: https://www.facebook.com/susanmccasland.wilkerson

Does somebody here has Facebook account?
I don't use it either, and I see that without an account it's impossible to look for that Susan's message.

 

[Ron Soye]

Does somebody here has Facebook account?
I don't use it either, and I see that without an account it's impossible to look for that Susan's message.

I managed to find a direct link to the post from here, and I've archived it:


Source: https://www.facebook.com/susanmccasland.wilkerson/posts/pfbid02XvjqGWmk4RfFLhNyDfHDNSt7jzqPEtuWBtpEaJbaQAeeMBrAVKgdPdqChCeuPFWPl
(megalodon.jp)

 

[deirdre]

Does somebody here has Facebook account?
I don't use it either, and I see that without an account it's impossible to look for that Susan's message.

i can see it. but a screenshot was posted so ... what do you need? it is the same words as what was posted here.

 

[NorCal Dave]

Including the speculation that he had mental issues, or that he got lost on a hike. Neither of which are a good fit to the evidence we do have.

Actually, prior to the statement from his wife, the idea of some sort of cognitive impairment was reasoned speculation giving New Mexico's guidelines for declaring a Silver Alert:

HB197 relaxes the criteria for the alerts so that the reporting party only needs to indicate they believe the missing person shows signs or symptoms of Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia, cognitive decline or impairment, regardless of age.

One could easily conclude that, per the guidelines, a reporting party believed the missing person (McCasland) suffered from Alzheimer's, dementia, cognitive decline or impairment. That is supposed to be the criteria for declaring a Silver Alert, which was declared.

Now his wife has released a statement indicating a Silver Alert may have been issued despite being a bit different from the official state guidelines:

The initial Silver Alert from BCSO mentioned medical conditions, which some have taken to mean Alzheimer's. Neil is at some risk, but not from dementia. He was not confused and disoriented,

There is some sort of "risk" related to "medical conditions" but not "dementia". I would assume the use of the word "dementia" is a catch-all for various cognitive issues. So, it would appear Ms. McCasland was able to have the local Sheriff's office issue a Silver Alert that didn't quite align with state criteria. Nothing nefarious or conspiratorial about this. I would think she reports him missing with some sort of "risk" presumably medical, and the BC Sheriff decided to use his authority to issue a Silver Alert, a bit out of normal guidelines, for a local concerned citizen.

The same statement also confirms what I had suspected about the DeLong email(s) to Podesta:

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. 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. After the Russians hacked John Podesta's emails (see Neil's Wikipedia page), there was less contact with Tom and the community pushing for release of UFO information.

McCasland did a bit of unpaid consultant work for DeLong. More specifically, for DeLong's "fiction book and media activities". Fiction.

That might not be true, he might not actually have key UFO information, but even the perception is enough to put him at risk of being a target.

Now if you're suggesting something like Edgar Welch's response to Pizzagate, where a somewhat unstable individual takes it upon themselves to engage in a conspiracy theory, I could see where that might be a concern:

Edgar Maddison Welch, a 28-year-old man from Salisbury, North Carolina, arrived at Comet Ping Pong and fired three shots from an AR-15-style rifle that struck the restaurant's walls, a desk and a door on December 4, 2016.[45]​[46]​[47]​ Welch later told police that he had planned to "self-investigate" the conspiacy theory.[48]​

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory

Given that Pizzagate was a rather niche conspiracy compared to the overwhelming media pushed idea that the US is hiding crashed UFOs and aliens, I would not be surprised if some UFO person decided to go straight to the source and try to question or harass someone they believed was hiding the UFO secrets.

Even if there were no UFO secrets.

 

[Ron Soye]

i can see it. but a screenshot was posted so ... what do you need? it is the same words as what was posted here.

Screenshots and text can be manipulated. Archive absolutely everything. But I found it here (now archived on megalodon.jp).

 

[Mendel]

So, it would appear Ms. McCasland was able to have the local Sheriff's office issue a Silver Alert that didn't quite align with state criteria. Nothing nefarious or conspiratorial about this. I would think she reports him missing with some sort of "risk" presumably medical, and the BC Sheriff decided to use his authority to issue a Silver Alert, a bit out of normal guidelines, for a local concerned citizen.

If a senior citizen is missing in New Mexico without water, by the time the search starts he's sure to be "impaired", fulfilling the criteria.

 

[Ann K]

Does somebody here has Facebook account?

The Facebook page was quoted in @Ron Soye 's post, https://www.metabunk.org/threads/my...al-sparks-nationwide-search.14774/post-364822
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