New revelations about the missing UFO-linked Air Force general reveal he attempted to leave the Pentagon's secret research programs days before vanishing.

Newly released police reports from New Mexico authorities state that retired Major General William Neil McCasland was attempting to step down from several high-level advisory positions at government-connected research laboratories across the US in the lead-up to his February 27 disappearance.

Byzantium was not an external Christian civilization that replaced Greece and Rome; it was the Roman Empire itself, preserving classical culture, Greek language, literature, philosophy, mathematics, medicine, and astronomy for nearly a thousand years after the closure of the pagan schools. Yet Byzantium also reveals that the classical habits of commentary, synthesis, reverence for authority, and disdain for hands-on experimentation characteristic of late antiquity could sustain learning for centuries without producing the institutional independence and experimental culture that later transformed natural philosophy in the Latin West.