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William "Neil" McCasland, a 68-year-old retired U.S. Air Force general, has been missing for astir 2 weeks.
"There has been nary denotation whatsoever of wherever helium mightiness be," his wife, Susan McCasland Wilkerson, wrote successful a Facebook station Friday. "There person been dozens of searchers connected foot, some authoritative and friends and neighbors of Neil's, who coordinate with the authoritative sources. There person besides been horseback searchers, drones with antithetic capabilities, helicopters, 3 antithetic types of hunt dogs, vicinity canvassing and looking for Ring oregon wildlife videos."
She did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's effort to scope her.
Although determination is simply a metallic alert retired for McCasland, his woman said she does not judge his disappearance is related to disorder oregon disorientation.
RETIRED GENERAL WHO ONCE LED AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY GOES MISSING

An undated photograph of missing retired Air Force Gen. William "Neil" McCasland successful hiking gear. Te 68-year-old was past seen adjacent his Albuquerque, New Mexico, location connected Feb. 27. (Susan McCasland Wilkerson/Facebook)
"Neil is astatine immoderate risk, but not from dementia," she wrote.
She besides downplayed his subject grounds arsenic a crushed for his disappearance.
"It is existent that erstwhile Neil was successful the Air Force, helium had entree to immoderate highly classified programs and information," she wrote. "He retired from the AF astir 13 years agone and has had lone precise commonly held clearances since. It seems rather improbable that helium was taken to extract precise dated secrets from him."
Before his status successful 2013, McCasland was the commandant of the Air Force Research Laboratory astatine Wright-Patterson Air Force Base successful Ohio. The basal served arsenic the office for a subject programme monitoring unidentified flying objects from 1947 to 1969, according to the government.
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Authorities issued a Silver Alert for retired Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland. (Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office )
She besides noted that helium had antecedently maintained a narration with Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge arsenic an unpaid advisor connected subject and technological matters related to UFOs for the rocker's fabrication and media projects.
"This transportation is not a crushed for idiosyncratic to abduct Neil," she wrote.
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He has nary "special knowledge" astir extraterrestrials oregon Roswell, New Mexico, according to his wife, who appeared frustrated with the hunt effort's deficiency of progress.
"Though astatine this constituent with perfectly nary motion of him, possibly the champion proposal is that aliens beamed him up to the mothership," she added. "However, nary sightings of a mothership hovering supra the Sandia Mountains person been reported."

McCasland antecedently commanded Kirtland Air Force Base's Phillips Research Site and Air Force Research Laboratory. (Kirtland Air Force Base )
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McCasland was past seen astatine his residence connected Quail Run Court successful Albuquerque connected Feb. 27, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office.
He is described arsenic 5 feet, 11 inches gangly with achromatic hairsbreadth and bluish eyes and is believed to person near his residence connected foot. He is an avid outdoorsman and is known to often hike, run, and rhythm successful the Northeast Heights and the Sandia foothills.
Images from his Facebook illustration amusement helium was often spending clip successful the mountains — some skiing and hiking — successful the U.S. and abroad.
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The sheriff's office, FBI and different assisting agencies did not instantly spot immoderate signs of foul play, according to a connection released connected March 6.
"We are asking for your assistance successful uncovering him," the Bernalillo sheriff's bureau said successful a statement. "We judge determination are radical who person accusation invaluable to locating Neil who person not yet spoken to instrumentality enforcement. This could see radical who person been successful the Sandia mountains and whitethorn person seen Neil oregon captured him connected a GoPro oregon different signaling device, specifically connected Friday, February 27 oregon Saturday, February 28."
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The sheriff's bureau is asking anyone with immoderate accusation to travel forward, adjacent if they don't deliberation what they cognize is important.
"Regardless of however insignificant you deliberation your accusation mightiness be, oregon whether you deliberation we are already alert of it, delight interaction america and let america to marque that determination," the connection continued.
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Anyone with accusation tin substance "BCSO" to 847411 oregon telephone the missing persons portion astatine 505-468-7070.
"We would besides similar to punctual the nationalist of immoderate hiking information tips: Pick the close way for you and your group's ability, retrieve to fto radical cognize wherever you are, formal successful layers, beryllium definite to person capable h2o and ever instrumentality your compartment telephone oregon immoderate different mode to communicate," authorities said.











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