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Retired Air Force General Neil McCassland, 68, vanished from his Albuquerque home on February 27, 2026 — 8 days after Trump announced UAP file releases — leaving behind his phone, smartwatch, and glasses but taking a gun and backpack; despite FBI, drones, helicopters, and 700 homes canvased, no trace was found.
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McCassland ran the Air Force Research Lab at Wright Patterson Air Force Base (rumored home of Roswell debris), directed Pentagon special access programs overseeing 75-80% of all black projects, and was named in hacked Podesta emails by Tom DeLong as someone deeply aware of UFO reverse engineering programs.
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Monica Resza, co-inventor of Mandeloy — a nickel-based superalloy critical to US rocket engines and a national security solution to dependence on Russian RD-180 engines — disappeared on June 22, 2025 during a hike near Mount Waterman; only her beanie was recovered after 8 days of search.
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Caltech and JPL astronomer Carl Gilmare, who pioneered exoplanet atmosphere detection, discovered stellar streams, and worked on planetary defense via NEOISE, was shot and killed on his porch on February 16, 2026 by neighbor Freddy Snyder, who had previously trespassed on his property with a loaded unregistered rifle and was released on his own recognizance.
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Congressman Tim Burchett told the Daily Mail that intelligence agencies are stonewalling his investigation into why top researchers are disappearing at high rates, and Harvard lawyer Danny Sheehan described a covert group of 24 retired high-ranking DoD, CIA, and aerospace officials quietly working to bring classified UAP programs back under government oversight.
