A retired general vanished from his home. An unseasonably warm spring is making him harder to find | CNN

An experienced hiker and avid outdoorsman, William Neil McCasland isn’t the typical missing person, but the retired Air Force major general hasn’t been seen since he walked out of his Albuquerque home on the morning of February 27, leaving behind his phone, prescription glasses and wearable devices. As part of the search, authorities flew a helicopter equipped with infrared cameras over the cliffs and canyons near his home at night, hoping to spot him by his heat signature. But the unseasonably warm spring turned the landscape against them. “The mountain was just lit up like a candle,” Lt. Kyle Woods of the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office said at a news conference Monday. “We couldn’t differentiate from heat signatures and the heat from the rocks.” Seventeen days after his disappearance, officials still can’t say where the 68-year-old went, why he left or whether someone else was involved — a mystery deepened by public fascination with the retired general’s ties to UFO lore. Retired Air Force major general missing for weeks once led Wright-Patterson, an Ohio base steeped in decades of UFO theories Surveillance cameras cover both ends of McCasland’s street