There's a particular kind of dread that comes not from monsters, but from absence. Not what's in the dark — but what just left it. On February 27, 2026, at 10:38 in the morning, an anonymous X account called T[MBSPACESHIPS](https://x.com/TMBSPACESHIPS) made its final post. Twenty-two minutes later, a retired two-star Air Force general named [William Neil McCasland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil\_McCasland) left his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and walked out into a cold February morn...