American geological engineer and lecturer. Claimed in the mid-1990s to have participated in an underground firefight with non-human entities at Dulce, New Mexico. Found dead in January 1996; ruled suicide, though the death remains discussed in UAP communities.
Phil Schneider was an alleged structural engineer and whistleblower who claimed to have worked on highly classified deep underground military bases. He gained notoriety on the UAP lecture circuit in the 1990s by asserting that the U.S. government was in conflict with hostile extraterrestrials residing beneath the Earth. Schneider's key contribution was his shocking claim of surviving a lethal 1979 firefight between human military personnel and large alien entities in an underground cavern in Dulce, New Mexico. He died under highly suspicious circumstances in 1996, which authorities ruled a suicide but supporters view as an assassination. His narratives heavily influenced the dark, conspiratorial faction of UAP lore regarding hostile alien treaties.