McCasland by @Jay09784691

Introduction

When the Wikileaks Podesta/Clinton emails were dropped in Mar 2016, we learned that Tom DeLonge had been in contact with John Podesta, discussing UFOs. These communications also included multiple references to Neil McCasland, some emails with simply “McCasland” in the subject line. The suggestion as part of these emails was that DeLonge had been in contact with both men and that they had shared interests in the UFO phenomenon. The emails were dated back to 2015.

John Podesta, Wikipedia:

An American political consultant who has served as Senior Advisor to President Biden for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation since ​September 2022. Podesta previously served as White House Chief of ​Staff to President Bill Clinton from 1998 to 2001 and Counselor to President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2015.

 

 

Neil McCasland, Wikipedia:

An astronautical engineer, retired United States Air Force major general, and former commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory. 

 

 

 

Needless to say, both men have had extremely high-level careers within the US government; either working directly with multiple presidents or as the highest permanent peacetime rank in uniformed services. You’d struggle to find two men with higher credentials.

It’s worth noting that DeLonge had presumably met with McCasland, likely the “two-star general” alluded to in the Face to Black interview with Jimmy Church. 

Some years later on Sep 19, 2019, it was announced by a press release that McCasland had joined a company called Riverside Research as a member of their board of trustees. It’s this company and its associated projects that we’re initially going to be delving into with this post to try and determine whether there are any loose correlations between the UFO phenomenon and the work performed by Riverside.

Riverside Research

With a brief internet search, we’re able to see that the company have been tracking space debris since at least 1974, as documented in their paper titled:

LASER CORRELOGRAPHY TRANSMISSION OF HI-RESOLUTION OBJECT SIGNATURES THROUGH THE TURBULENT ATMOSPHERE

This paper is discussing the use of lasers to correlate atmospheric targets. The system can yield object signatures with “diffraction-limited resolution”. This atmospheric object detection is an area of interest for the company that McCasland is a trustee of.

Also, around the same time of the publication of the above paper, a system that had its installation operated by Raytheon, called Cobra Dane. Originally made in 1976 and eventually brought online a year later in 1977. Cobra Dane was created with the primary mission of tracking objects and specifically gathering data on Russia’s ICBM program. Data from this system is sent over to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (otherwise known as NORAD).

Interestingly, some years later, Riverside Researchprovided some software revisions to the Cobra Dane system, as described in a publicly released “Case Study” from their website. Originally when the author came across this link, it was fully available for anyone to view, but it has since been removed from the Riverside Research website and now redirects to a “Page Not Found” response. Thankfully Wackback Machine has an archived version of the web page, as follows:

Enhancing Our National Space Surveillance Assets – Cobra Dane

Reading through the link it appears that the original software behind Cobra Dane has been revised several times and managed by Riverside Research. Thereby increasing the resolution and ability to “track satellites in the deep space orbital regime for the first time in its operational history”. Further along in the press release we have the following text:

“Up until that time, owing to internal software (track filter configuration) limitations, the system was not reporting metric observation data with the full accuracy it was capable of against all Uncorrelated Targets (UCTs)”

Difficult to find how many satellites are actually in the aforementioned “deep space orbital regime”. Appears that we currently have satellites in:

LEO: Low Earth Orbit (160 to 2,000 km)

MEO: Medium Earth Orbit (2,000 to 35,786 km)

GEO: Geostationary Orbit (~35,786 km)

We have the Voyager craft that is further out into “Deep Space”, way beyond the above earth orbits where the vast majority of humanity’s satellites reside. It’s difficult to fully determine the range of Cobra Dane, with different websites giving a range of 2,000 miles to 46,000 kilometres. 

What range would truly be considered a “deep space orbital regime”? 

According to a Wikipedia entry titled “NASA Deep Space Network”, it’s stated that “According to a 1975 NASA report, the DSN was designed to communicate with “spacecraft travelling approximately 16,000 km (10,000 miles) from Earth to the farthest planets of the solar system.” Unfortunately, there is no firm information on what the original range of Cobra Dane was or what could have changed once Riverside completed its software updates.

Going back to the quote from Riverside, we have the reference to “Uncorrelated Targets (UCTs)” and also the “deep space” references.

UFOlogy’s most respected researcher, Jacques Vallée, has talked about UCTs before – Jacques mentions “Hynek” in an interview with Joe Rogan. J Allen Hynek worked for the US Air Force for their UFO programs Project Sign, Project Grudge, and Project Bluebook, in the 1940s, 50s, 60s and he worked closely alongside Vallée and Carl Sagan.

“Sagan went to NORAD and he went to where the headquarters are and explained “you guys must have UFOs” and they said “No”. He said “You’re tracking everything, Hynek tells me he’s got these reports… you must have UFO reports and be detecting something” and they said “Yeah, but we don’t call them UFOs, so we have no UFOs. They don’t show up in the file”. So if someone says a keyword, “UFOs”, NORAD say they don’t have anything. So Carl Sagan said “What do you guys call them?” and they said, “We call them UCTs – Uncorrelated Targets”.

– Jacques Vallée paraphrasing Carl Sagan on The Joe Rogan Experience (from ~1:10:00)

We already know of McCasland’s interest in the UFO subject, since the Wikileaks emails between DeLonge and Podesta have references to him. As well as DeLonge’s “two-star general” comment with Jimmy Church. Now we have direct references from a company that’s associated with him mentioning UCTs, that according to Vallée is the terminology used by groups within the US government that could indirectly, at times, refer to UFOs. 

Considering private companies are outside of the Freedom of Information Act, it would therefore make it difficult to derive data, emails, reports, and research from the company. Perhaps this is intentional.

A valid open question at this stage would be, how many satellites do humanity have that are in deep space and not correlated to any known objects? I suppose we can assume that NORAD’s Cobra Dane system would still be interested in foreign satellites or missiles out in space, but how many are outside of Earth’s orbit, or within any potential increased range/accuracy following Riverside’s software updates (if indeed a significant increase).

Could the updated Cobra Dane system be used to track objects outside of Earth’s orbit or indeed UCTs within orbit? It appears it’s advertised by Riverside Research as being able to do exactly that.

“How many uncorrelated targets do you get a month?” and they said “About 10,000.”

– Jacques Vallée paraphrasing Carl Sagan

Somewhere between McCasland, Riverside Research, Raytheon, and NORAD are datasets that would include tracking of unknown objects within various orbits, perhaps even further beyond the usual earth orbits. If we’re to believe the current UFO congressional hearings as having some validity to actual unknown craft, then these people and companies would have access to that data.

We can assume that if there were any UCTs that had manoeuvres outside of known satellites’ abilities, particularly if they were extremely fast or moving at right angles, then there would be studies collecting these data and performing associated analyses. The studies and their data on UCTs would be present within the files are Riverside Research (or performed by a third party) and would presumably be available to McCasland. Considering the current efforts within the US government for transparency on the UFO subject, it would make sense if Congress were to get written or verbal statements directly from people like McCasland, since he would almost definitely be one of the people with direct access both historically and in the present. There should also be efforts to access data from NORAD and any systems like Cobra Dane, whether these analyses are performed by governmental or external parties.

Post article note: there are other companies that McCasland is directly related to, like Applied Technology Associates where in January 2014, there was a press release stating that McCasland had been recruited as Director of Technology. Their technologies include directed energy weapon projects, as well as multimillion contracts for projects on “basic physics, engineering, design, development, integration, technical analysis, and testing” at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. Coincidently, the same location where Paul Bennewitz allegedly was filming strange lights and recording unusual radio signals.