The Disappearance of Monica Jacinto Reza

Dreamland: The Edge of the World · Mar 20, 2026 · 1h 2m

Prior to the retirement of General William “Neil” McCasland in 2013, Monica Jacinto Reza was one of the most important materials researchers at Rocketdyne, who had developed a material called Monalloy, which freed the United States from the need to use Russian-made rocket engines to move classified satellites into orbit. Listen as Whitley unpacks the ways in which her work as a Technical Fellow at Aerojet Rocketdyne would have been connected to the Air Force Research Lab at Wright-Patterson AFB, which was commanded until mid-2013 by General Neil McCasland, who disappeared on…