Philip Schneider

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Philip Schneider (April 23, 1947 - January 17, 1996) was an American who claimed to be a geologist and structural engineer, and who became known in the early 1990s for giving lectures about his alleged work inside top secret facilities being built by the United States government.

1 Exotic claims
2 The lectures
3 Biography
4 Death
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Exotic claims

Schneider claimed to have been working especially with the construction of military underground bases, using technologies which were deliberately being held back from the public, along with other classified technologies including alien spacecraft technology, and that he'd encountered alien life while working underground. He described a subterranean network of vast bases, several of which were many cubic miles in volume and several miles below ground, and that they all were linked in a supersonic railway network. Furthermore, he claimed that all world politics are dictated by a secret, "higher" government which has complete control over all the militaries, economies, governments, and politics of every country in the world. And this higher governmental entity is taking orders from a "non-human" source which has sinister intent.

He also claimed he had been involved in a firefight with aliens at the Dulce Base that took place after they had already drilled several holes and were planning to join them together using Shaped charge explosives, and Schneider claims it was his job to check the composition of the ground to suggest which type of explosives should be used, and he was doing this and went down and was surprised to find a large cavern with several large Greys. He claims a firefight broke out between special forces (Black Beret's as Schneider mostly refers to them) and the aliens and a large number of special forces were killed. Schneider also claims he was hit by an alien energy weapon that caused him to lose fingers (which can be seen missing) and also tore open his abdomen and then a black beret dragged him to safety.^[1]

Schneider's claims earned little mainstream attention, but earned notoriety in conspiracy theory and ufo enthusiast circles.

[edit] The lectures

Two years prior to his death, Schneider resigned from his purported military employment, and went on a continuous lecturing tour talking about government cover-ups, black budgets, and UFOs. He claimed that as much as 25% of the national gross product is being used in "black budgets" to finance the secret plans Schneider exposed,^[1] that the United States government has made treaties with multiple extraterrestrial races, allowing alien abduction of livestock and humans in exchange for advanced technology. Schneider believed that a significant number (around one hundred thousand) of individuals inside the United States go missing every year as a result.^[2] Schneider told that the underground bases were used to "subvert the United States constitution and the bill of rights".

[edit] Biography

Philip's parents were Oscar and Sally Schneider. Schneider described his father as having worked in nuclear medicine and helped design the first nuclear submarines. He also had collected artifacts which were passed onto his son. Oscar Schneider was purportedly part of nuclear weapons tests in Operation Crossroads and of the Philadelphia Experiment.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Death

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According to Tim Swartz and Cynthia Drayer^[3], Schneider was found dead in his Willsonville, Oregon apartment on January 17, 1996, after friends were unable to reach him. Authorities concluded Schneider had been dead for five to seven days, and initially announced a stroke as the likely cause of death. However, Schneider's ex-wife suggested he might have been murdered for exposing secret information.^[4]

The later autopsy would determine the cause of death to be suffocation by the wrapping of a rubber hose round Schneider's neck, believed to be self inflicted.^{[citation needed]} But many^{[citation needed]} still insist that he was murdered by people who broke into his house, or possibly assaulted him at a different location and moved his body to his house, and strangled him to death with a rubber hose, and then hanged him by it to stage his murder to appear as if it was self-inflicted.

Schneider's wife, Cynthia A. Drayer,^{[citation needed]} claims she was not allowed to see his body at the morgue, due to "decomposition." She claims that the body that was autopsied was not that of Schneiders. According to the coroner's report, the body contained all ten fingers, and did not bear scars of the operations he had on his penis due to a penile infection he had years before his death. Schneider was missing fingers on his left hand due to (according to Al Bielek) injuries received from the Dulce firefight. Because of this, it would have been impossible for him to tie a rubber hose around his neck entirely by himself. It is believed by his wife and family that Schneider's body was switched with another body at the morgue. So that the medical examiner would not discover any physical evidence of foul play by examining markings and other physical abnormalities on, and in his body that would prove that he was murdered. Schneider was given a closed-casket burial.