Philip Schneider (conspiracy theorist)
Philip Schneider (April 23, 1947 - January 17, 1996) was a promoter of conspiracy theories. He was known for his unsubstantiated claims about the Dulce Base conspiracy theory, an earlier story of aliens fighting humans in an underground base that had previously been put forward by John Lear, Rick Doty, and Bob Lazar in the 1980s. After his death, Schneider's former wife revealed he had suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. Skeptics and UFO believers have both argued Schneider's conspiracy views were delusions based on the Dulce Base claims of his associate John Lear.
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