The Disappearances No One Will Officially Connect
At approximately 9:10 in the morning on June 22, 2025, Monica Jacinto Reza was hiking the Mount Waterman Trail in California's Angeles National Forest. She was sixty years old, experienced in the mountains, and in good health. Two companions walked ahead of her on the path. One of them turned around. Reza was thirty feet behind them, smiling. She waved. The companion turned back to the trail. When he looked again, she was gone.
She has not been found. Months of aerial search, ground teams, K9 units, and radar sweeps produced nothing — no clothing, no equipment, no remains. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department continues to list her as a missing person. No evidence of foul play has been publicly confirmed. No explanation has been offered for how a person vanishes from a populated trail in sixty seconds. Reza was not merely a hiker. She was the co-inventor of Mondaloy, a nickel-based superalloy developed at Rocketdyne in the 1990s and funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory — the Pentagon's effort to eliminate American dependence on Russian-made RD-180 propulsion technology. It is a program of active national security significance.
The general who oversaw the Air Force group that funded her work vanished from Albuquerque, New Mexico, eight months later, on February 27, 2026. His name was William 'Neil' McCasland. He was a retired Air Force major general, an MIT-trained aerospace engineer, and the former commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — a base that has carried decades of speculation as the repository for recovered UAP materials. He left his home on foot, in a one-hour window, without his phone or prescription glasses. He took a .38-caliber revolver and his wallet. The FBI and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations joined the search. He has not been found.
Six Verified Cases
| Name | Employer / Role | Date | Status | Key Anomaly | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maj. Gen. William 'Neil' McCasland | USAF Ret. / AFRL Wright-Patterson; Kirtland AFB NM | Feb 27, 2026 | Missing — active | Left in 1-hr window; phone/glasses left behind; revolver + wallet missing; 'mental fog' reported | C1 — BCSO / FBI / family |
| Monica Jacinto Reza | Aerojet Rocketdyne / NASA JPL (incoming Dir. Materials Processing) | Jun 22, 2025 | Missing — active | Vanished 30 ft behind companions on Mount Waterman Trail; months of aerial/K9 search — no trace found | C1 — LASD / search records |
| Steven Garcia | KCNSC Albuquerque — property custodian / nuclear components | 2025 | Missing | Custodian for nuclear component storage; circumstances undisclosed | C2 |
| Robert Lazar (contextual) | Alleged S-4 / LANL contractor | Active | Living | Documented LANL presence; FBI raid 2019; continuous surveillance alleged | C2/C3 |
The Mondaloy pattern does not establish foul play in any individual case. It establishes an anomalous cluster: within an eight-month window, two individuals with documented connections to classified Air Force research programs — one the inventor of a critical national security alloy, one the commander of the laboratory that funded her work — vanished without explanation from different states, with no remains or trace evidence found despite sustained multi-agency searches. Taken alone, each case is an unexplained disappearance. Taken together, they constitute a statistical anomaly whose significance cannot be assessed without access to classified records that have not been released.
LASD missing persons records — Monica Jacinto Reza (June 2025); Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office records — McCasland (February 2026).
FBI involvement documentation — McCasland search; Air Force Office of Special Investigations involvement.
Aerojet Rocketdyne / NASA JPL public records — Reza biographical documentation.
Air Force Research Laboratory — Mondaloy program documentation; AR1 engine program records.