--- title: "The allegedly secret, ongoing underground war between Green Berets and aliens" description: "1979 was a year filled with international news and events. The ongoing Green Berets vs. underground alien war would have topped them all—if anyone knew." date: "2021-12-19" modified: "2022-10-06" authors: - name: "Blake Stilwell" job_title: "Editor-In-Chief, Air Force Veteran" link: "https://www.wearethemighty.com/authors/blake/" url: "https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/underground-war-green-berets-aliens/" categories: - "Entertainment" - "Special Operations" - "Tactical" tags: - "Special Operations" --- # The allegedly secret, ongoing underground war between Green Berets and aliens ![An alleged photo of an alien traversing New Mexico's underground tunnels,]() *An alleged photo of an alien traversing New Mexico's underground tunnels, presumably on its way to a CQ shift.* The year is 1979. Iranian students would storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage for the next 444 days. The Soviet Union would invade Afghanistan, leading to a ten-year quagmire that ultimately helped end the Evil Empire. Israel and Egypt would sign a landmark peace treaty that has yet to be broken. And the United States Army would engage in a secret underground war against alien grey men to keep them from overrunning the Earth's defenses and making all those news stories relatively moot. ** Also Read: [Official CIA documents reported that a UFO turned a Soviet infantry unit to stone]()** It began in the aftermath of an underground battle left 60 humans killed in action and an untold number of the enemy's troops mortally wounded. It soon became the U.S. Army's Special Forces' greatest threat, and no one would ever know about it. The Army's elite Green Berets, battle-hardened by the war in Vietnam, were dispatched to Dulce, New Mexico, to keep mysterious alien forces underground and away from threatening the rest of the world. They succeeded, but at what cost? At least, this is the way [explosives engineer Philip Schneider]() tells his part of the story. He was in New Mexico that year, and he knows the alien threat was real. He claims he was working on a highly secretive, underground base on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation in New Mexico, near Dulce, a Colorado border town. He [told the Huffington Post]() he first became suspicious of the project's true intention when he noticed American Special Forces soldiers operating in and around the area. They don't just send Green Berets to New Mexico for no reason, he reasoned. ![green berets vs aliens map]() *Dulce Base, the bottleneck keeping underground aliens at bay.* At the time, the engineer said he was beginning construction of the underground base, just as he would any other base, by drilling holes. At Dulce Base, however, an acrid smell like burning garbage emerged from the drilled holes. Then, one day, he turned around and came face-to-face with what he called a "7-foot-tall, stinky, gray alien." Immediately, the engineer grabbed his pistol and took two of them down. A third one blew off some of his fingers with a kind of laser blaster. That's when one of the Green Berets sacrificed himself to save Schneider's life. Then the outright fighting started. The scuffle turned into a full-blown battle that killed 60 humans. Green Berets reacted instantly, bringing all the firepower they could bear on the aliens. The aliens responded by shooting blue bolts of radiant power with movements of their hands. The kind of bolts that blew Schneider's fingers off were turning the Special Forces soldiers inside out. Eventually, the aliens relented, retreating deeper into the complex. What happened in the years that followed is anyone's guess. Schneider alleged the gray aliens were conducting bizarre medical experiments on mankind, both live humans and samples of DNA. He said that deep underground, the "Grays" would absorb human and cow blood for sustenance. It took more than 20 years to work up the courage, but he finally came out with his story in the mid-1990s. Two years later, he killed himself with a catheter cord, a suicide that has some screaming foul play. Before his death, Schneider alleged that there were more than 1,400 similar underground bases all over the world, each with a price tag in the billions of dollars. The 192 bases inside the U.S. are also said to be interconnected. While there is no further information on what started the underground alien war or if it continues to this day, residents of nearby Dulce [attest to strange happenings]() in areas near the base. ### Don’t Miss the Best of We Are The Mighty **• [Two veterans shaped the UFO phenomenon from a joke into real federal policy]()** **• [The 1952 UFO Washington sighting that upended decades of denial]()** **• [‘Project Jedi’ aimed to teach soldiers to use the Force when firing weapons]()** ## Author Blake Stilwell is We Are The Mighty's Editor-in-Chief, covering military news, entertainment, and history, along with veteran education, employment and entrepreneurship. He is a former U.S. Air Force combat cameraman with degrees in Graphic Design, Television and Film, International Relations, Public Relations, Business Management and Middle Eastern Affairs. After leaving the military, he began working in film and television production in New York and Los Angeles, work that included ABC News, NBC Olympics, and HBO Sports. He then spent two years in Washington with White House Communications, before joining the Near East Foundation. At NEF he served as an International Development Fellow, then Communications Officer, and finally, Media Officer for the Middle East and Africa. Based in the Palestinian Territory, he coordinated strategic communications between eight country offices, international media, and government and NGO partners. He began a career focused on writing and editing in 2015 with We Are The Mighty. He left in 2019 for Military.com, but returned as Editor-in-Chief in 2025. Blake’s work has been seen on CBS News, Fox News, CBC, The Chicago Tribune, Task & Purpose, Military Times, Recoil, Skillset, American History, and was shockingly even used in a Supreme Court argument. He is an avid traveler and small business owner in Ohio, where he spends most of his energy fixing up a very old house. ### Author social links [Facebook]() [Twitter]() [Instagram]() [LinkedIn]()