Burlison Tells Fox News McCasland Was the 'UFO General' Whose Disappearance Sparked the Missing Scientists Probe

Representative Eric Burlison (Republican, Missouri) told Fox News that the disappearance of retired Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland directly triggered the House Oversight investigation into the eleven missing and dead American scientists. Burlison described McCasland on the record as the 'UFO General', citing his deep institutional expertise on UAP material, and disclosed that his own office had been in contact with McCasland in the period before McCasland vanished from his Albuquerque home in February 2026 with a personal .38 calibre revolver. Burlison framed the McCasland case as the trigger event that connected the otherwise scattered scientist disappearances and prompted the 20 April Comer and Burlison letters demanding staff-level briefings from the FBI, Department of Energy, Department of War and NASA by 27 April.