Phil Schneider and the 'Dulce War'
In 1995 lectures, Phil Schneider claimed he had helped build the Dulce underground base and survived a 1979 firefight between aliens and US special forces there.
1995 CE · 36.93, -106.99 · status: claim
The account
Schneider presented himself as a geologist and engineer and repeated ideas first spread by John Lear and others: an alien–human treaty, a war inside Dulce and more. Another source of Dulce lore is a supposed security guard, Thomas Castello, whose story circulates mainly as an online question-and-answer text. Both built on Paul Bennewitz's early-1980s belief that signals came from under Archuleta Mesa.
The sceptical view
Author Greg Valdez found no evidence for Schneider's credentials; after his 1996 death his former wife said he had paranoid schizophrenia. Skeptoid's writer found no evidence that Castello existed, and no road, vent, worker or document has ever shown the base.
Connections in the atlas
- Phil Schneider’s Dulce lectures
- Dulce Base (New Mexico)
- Kirtland / Bennewitz affair
- Area 51 (Groom Lake)