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3/17/2026 7:38:46 AM EDT
I think it’s a worthy discussion topic…

Ross Coulthart Q&A: General McCasland’s disappearance, flight MH370 and Jim Carrey | Reality Check


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Ross says Gen. McCasland has a lot of UFO/UAP knowledge… enough that a kidnap by hostiles could be in play.

From what Ross has also said, the hiking path the General was on is not an easy place to just disappear from.
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3/17/2026 8:21:38 AM EDT
[Last Edit: anothermisanthrope][Edited] [#1]
I've been keeping an eye on this. The timing of it after disclosure announcement makes one wonder just who grabbed him.
3/17/2026 12:11:28 PM EDT
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This story really needs national news coverage.  Missing reporters mom never ending coverage but someone of some real importance silence.  Could it have something to do with a certain 3 letter agency that dictates what gets coverage?
3/17/2026 1:19:45 PM EDT
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Its been "reported" he was having some mental health issues (conveniently) and left without his wallet, sidearm or phone 🙄
3/17/2026 2:26:11 PM EDT
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GD thread
3/17/2026 8:55:18 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By macman37:
I think it’s a worthy discussion topic…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHKDWoLFLpA

Fox News link

Ross says Gen. McCasland has a lot of UFO/UAP knowledge… enough that a kidnap by hostiles could be in play.

From what Ross has also said, the hiking path the General was on is not an easy place to just disappear from.
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Yeah, no.

An area that has multiple rescues per month for hikers, and people go missing and die every few years is absolutely an easy place to go missing.

I like watching missing hiker stories, this sounds like a typical missing hiker. Overconfident guy goes out for a quick hike and leaves all his survival equipment at home because he knows the area and is going to be right back. They will find his body eventually, and we might have and idea about what happened, or it might remain a mystery.
3/17/2026 10:59:39 PM EDT
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Yeah, no.

An area that has multiple rescues per month for hikers, and people go missing and die every few years is absolutely an easy place to go missing.

I like watching missing hiker stories, this sounds like a typical missing hiker. Overconfident guy goes out for a quick hike and leaves all his survival equipment at home because he knows the area and is going to be right back. They will find his body eventually, and we might have and idea about what happened, or it might remain a mystery.
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Originally Posted By Herc:
Originally Posted By macman37:
I think it’s a worthy discussion topic…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHKDWoLFLpA

Fox News link

Ross says Gen. McCasland has a lot of UFO/UAP knowledge… enough that a kidnap by hostiles could be in play.

From what Ross has also said, the hiking path the General was on is not an easy place to just disappear from.


Yeah, no.

An area that has multiple rescues per month for hikers, and people go missing and die every few years is absolutely an easy place to go missing.

I like watching missing hiker stories, this sounds like a typical missing hiker. Overconfident guy goes out for a quick hike and leaves all his survival equipment at home because he knows the area and is going to be right back. They will find his body eventually, and we might have and idea about what happened, or it might remain a mystery.


Have you examined or familiarized yourself with the area?  I haven’t done more than a cursory look from aerial maps - I’m going on what Ross said.

Sure people go missing but this guy is an experienced hiker on a familiar trail.

What you said doesn’t necessarily omit foul play. I’ve seen my share of missing hiker stories myself, and many of them include other people who take them away…
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3/18/2026 3:03:08 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By macman37:


Have you examined or familiarized yourself with the area?  I haven’t done more than a cursory look from aerial maps - I’m going on what Ross said.

Sure people go missing but this guy is an experienced hiker on a familiar trail.

What you said doesn’t necessarily omit foul play. I’ve seen my share of missing hiker stories myself, and many of them include other people who take them away…
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Originally Posted By macman37:
Originally Posted By Herc:
Originally Posted By macman37:
I think it’s a worthy discussion topic…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHKDWoLFLpA

Fox News link

Ross says Gen. McCasland has a lot of UFO/UAP knowledge… enough that a kidnap by hostiles could be in play.

From what Ross has also said, the hiking path the General was on is not an easy place to just disappear from.


Yeah, no.

An area that has multiple rescues per month for hikers, and people go missing and die every few years is absolutely an easy place to go missing.

I like watching missing hiker stories, this sounds like a typical missing hiker. Overconfident guy goes out for a quick hike and leaves all his survival equipment at home because he knows the area and is going to be right back. They will find his body eventually, and we might have and idea about what happened, or it might remain a mystery.


Have you examined or familiarized yourself with the area?  I haven’t done more than a cursory look from aerial maps - I’m going on what Ross said.

Sure people go missing but this guy is an experienced hiker on a familiar trail.

What you said doesn’t necessarily omit foul play. I’ve seen my share of missing hiker stories myself, and many of them include other people who take them away…

My boots on the ground experience consists of riding the tramway once when passing through Albuquerque. It's steep rugged terrain, with trails that go awful close to deadly drop offs, and people fall fairly often.

Experienced hikers have a tendency to get complacent, and complacency kills. My guess is the repairman threw him off his daily routine, he forgot his watch/phone and didn't realize it until he was on the trail, instead of turning around he kept going because its a quick hike and he new the area. He put his head down and just walked, maybe he followed foot steps off trail and walked off a cliff, or tripped, or was enjoying the view from the edge of a cliff and a rock fell from underneath him, or maybe he had a heart attack. Multiple small decisions that would have been fine by themselves all lined up to create a missing persons case.

Foul play can't be ruled out, but it's an unlikely cause of his disappearance. If he wasn't a retired General, this would just be another missing hiker story that only got local press.
3/18/2026 3:19:49 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Herc:

My boots on the ground experience consists of riding the tramway once when passing through Albuquerque. It's steep rugged terrain, with trails that go awful close to deadly drop offs, and people fall fairly often.

Experienced hikers have a tendency to get complacent, and complacency kills. My guess is the repairman threw him off his daily routine, he forgot his watch/phone and didn't realize it until he was on the trail, instead of turning around he kept going because its a quick hike and he new the area. He put his head down and just walked, maybe he followed foot steps off trail and walked off a cliff, or tripped, or was enjoying the view from the edge of a cliff and a rock fell from underneath him, or maybe he had a heart attack. Multiple small decisions that would have been fine by themselves all lined up to create a missing persons case.

Foul play can't be ruled out, but it's an unlikely cause of his disappearance. If he wasn't a retired General, this would just be another missing hiker story that only got local press.
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Originally Posted By Herc:
Originally Posted By macman37:
Originally Posted By Herc:
Originally Posted By macman37:
I think it’s a worthy discussion topic…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHKDWoLFLpA

Fox News link

Ross says Gen. McCasland has a lot of UFO/UAP knowledge… enough that a kidnap by hostiles could be in play.

From what Ross has also said, the hiking path the General was on is not an easy place to just disappear from.


Yeah, no.

An area that has multiple rescues per month for hikers, and people go missing and die every few years is absolutely an easy place to go missing.

I like watching missing hiker stories, this sounds like a typical missing hiker. Overconfident guy goes out for a quick hike and leaves all his survival equipment at home because he knows the area and is going to be right back. They will find his body eventually, and we might have and idea about what happened, or it might remain a mystery.


Have you examined or familiarized yourself with the area?  I haven’t done more than a cursory look from aerial maps - I’m going on what Ross said.

Sure people go missing but this guy is an experienced hiker on a familiar trail.

What you said doesn’t necessarily omit foul play. I’ve seen my share of missing hiker stories myself, and many of them include other people who take them away…

My boots on the ground experience consists of riding the tramway once when passing through Albuquerque. It's steep rugged terrain, with trails that go awful close to deadly drop offs, and people fall fairly often.

Experienced hikers have a tendency to get complacent, and complacency kills. My guess is the repairman threw him off his daily routine, he forgot his watch/phone and didn't realize it until he was on the trail, instead of turning around he kept going because its a quick hike and he new the area. He put his head down and just walked, maybe he followed foot steps off trail and walked off a cliff, or tripped, or was enjoying the view from the edge of a cliff and a rock fell from underneath him, or maybe he had a heart attack. Multiple small decisions that would have been fine by themselves all lined up to create a missing persons case.

Foul play can't be ruled out, but it's an unlikely cause of his disappearance. If he wasn't a retired General, this would just be another missing hiker story that only got local press.


I think the point Ross was trying to make was that the trail he used was known and a body would be easily found if it was “just” a heart attack.

The searchers know the route he would take and haven’t found him yet.
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3/21/2026 7:49:57 AM EDT
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Almost sends like intelligence assets of foreign nations exiting their fake existence.   They got their intel and were recalled.
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3/21/2026 9:28:51 AM EDT
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Almost sends like intelligence assets of foreign nations exiting their fake existence.   They got their intel and were recalled.
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Almost sends like intelligence assets of foreign nations exiting their fake existence.   They got their intel and were recalled.


Boy I hope that’s not the plot twist.
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3/21/2026 12:59:37 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By macman37:


Boy I hope that’s not the plot twist.
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Almost sends like intelligence assets of foreign nations exiting their fake existence.   They got their intel and were recalled.


Boy I hope that’s not the plot twist.

Terrifyingly plausible though. What an excellent way to just vanish. Have a history of going hiking, go on one, someone picks you up and takes you to a private plane, the person you were no longer exists. That could be what happened to Reza too.
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