Al Pratt suspected something was wrong with his friend Philip Schneider. For
several days in a row, Al had gone to Phil's apartment, in Willsonville, Oregon, saw his car in
the parking lot, but received no answer at the door. Finally, on January 17th,
1996, Al Pratt, along with the manager of the Autumn Park Apartments and a
detective from the Clackamas County Sheriff's office entered the apartment.
Inside, they found the body of Philip Schneider. Apparently he had been dead for
5 to 7 days. The Clackamas County Coroner's office initially attributed Philip
Schneider's death to a stroke. However, in the following days disturbing details
about his death began to surface, leading some to believe that Philip Schneider
had not died from a stroke, but had in fact been murdered.
Philip Schneider's life was certainly as controversial as his death. Born on
April 23, 1947 at Bethesda Navy Hospital. Philip's parents were Oscar and Sally
Schneider. Oscar Schneider was a Captain in the United States Navy, worked in
nuclear medicine and helped design the first nuclear submarines. Captain
Schneider was also part of OPERATION CROSSROADS, which was responsible for the
testing of nuclear weapons in the Pacific AT Bikini Island. In a lecture
videotaped in May 1996, Philip Schneider claimed that his father, Captain Oscar
Schneider, was also involved with the infamous "Philadelphia Experiment." In
addition, Philip claimed to be an ex-government structural engineer who was
involved in building underground military bases (DUMB) around the country, and
to be one of only three people to survive the 1979 incident between the alien
Grays and U.S. military forces at the Dulce underground base. Philip Schneider's
ex-wife, Cynthia Drayer believes that Philip was murdered because he publicly
revealed the truth about the U.S.government's involvement with UFOs.
For two years prior to his death, Philip Schneider had been on a lecture tour
talking about government cover-ups, black budgets, and UFOs. Philip stated in
his lecture that in 1954, under the Eisenhower administration, the federal
government decided to circumvent the Constitution and form a treaty with
extraterrestrials. The treaty was called the 1954 Greada Treaty. Officials
agreed that for extraterrestrial technology, the Grays could test their
implanting techniques on select citizens. However, the extraterrestrials had to
inform the government just who had been abducted and subject to implants. Slowly
over time, the aliens altered the bargain, abducting and implanting thousands of
people without reporting back to the government.
In 1979, Philip was employed by Morrison-Knudsen, Inc. He was involved in
building an addition to the deep underground military base at Dulce, New Mexico.
The project at that time had drilled four holes in the desert that were to be
linked together with tunnels. Philip's job was to go down the holes, check the
rock samples, and recommend the explosives to deal with the particular rock. In
the process, the workers accidentally opened a large artificial cavern, a secret
base for the aliens known as Grays. In the panic that occurred, sixty-seven
workers and military personnel were killed, with Philip Schneider being one of
only three people to survive. Philip claimed that scars on his chest were caused
by his being struck by an alien weapon that would later result in cancer due to
the radiation.
If Philip Schneider's claims are true, then his knowledge of the secret
government, UFOs and other information kept from the public, could have serious
repercussions to the world as we know it. In his lectures, Philip spoke on such
topics as the Space-Defense-Initiative, black helicopters, railroad cars built
with shackles to contain political prisoners, the World Trade Center bombing,
and the secret black budget.
Quotes taken from a lecture given by Philip Schneider in May, 1995, at
Post Falls, Idaho.
RAILROAD CARS
"Recently, I knew someone who lived near where I live in Portland, Oregon. He
worked at Gunderson Steel Fabrication, where they make railroad cars. Now, I
knew this fellow for the better part of 30 years, and he was kind of a quiet
type. He came in to see me one day excited, and he told me 'they're building
prisoner cars.' He was nervous. Gunderson, he said, had a contract with the
federal government to build 107,200 full length railroad cars, each with 143
pairs of shackles. There are 11 sub-contractors in this giant project.
Supposedly, Gunderson got over 2 billion dollars for the contract. Bethlehem
Steel and other steel outfits are involved. He showed me one of the cars in the
rail yards in North Portland. He was right. If you multiply 107,200 times 143
times 11, you come up with about 15,000,000. This is probably the number of
people who disagree with the federal government. "
"STAR WARS" AND THE ALIEN THREAT
"68% of the military budget is directly or indirectly affected by the black
budget. "Star Wars" relies heavily upon stealth weaponry. By the way, none of
the stealth program would have been available if we had not taken apart crashed
alien disks. None of it. Some of you might ask what the space shuttle is
'shuttling." Large ingots of special metals that are milled in space and cannot
be produced on the surface of the Earth. They need the near vacuum of outer
space to produce them. We are not even being told anything close to the truth. I
believe our government officials have sold us down the drain - lock, stock and
barrel. Up until several weeks ago, I was employed by the U.S. government with a
Rhyolite-38 clearance factor - one of the highest in the world. I believe the
"Star Wars" program is there solely to act as a buffer to prevent alien attack -
it has nothing to do with the 'cold war,' which was only a toy to garner money
from all the people. For what? The whole lie was planed and executed for the
last 75 years."
BLACK HELICOPTERS
"There are over 64,000 black helicopters in the United States. For every hour
that goes by, there is one being built. Is this the proper use of our money?
What does the federal government need 64,000 tactical helicopters for, if they
are not trying to enslave us. I doubt if the entire military needs 64,000
worldwide. There are 157 F-117A stealth aircraft loaded with LIDAR and
computer-enhanced imaging radar. They can see you walking from room to room when
they fly over your house. They see objects in the house from the air with a
variation limit of one inch to 30,000 miles. That's how accurate that is. I
worked in the federal government for a long time, and I know exactly how they
handle their business." TERRORIST BOMBINGS
" I was hired not too long ago to do a report on the World Trade Center
Bombing. I was hired because I know about the 90 some odd varieties of chemical
explosives. I looked at the pictures taken right after the blast. The concrete
was puddled and melted. The steel and the rebar was literally extruded up to six
feet longer than its original length. There is only one weapon that can do that
- a small nuclear weapon. A construction-type nuclear device. Obviously, when
they say that it was a nitrate explosive that did the damage, they're lying 100
percent folks. I want to further mention that with the last explosion in
Oklahoma City, they are saying that it was a nitrate or fertilizer bomb that did
it. " First, they came out and said it was a 1,000 pound fertilizer bomb. Then,
it was 1,500. then, 2,000 pounds. Now its 20,000. You can't put 20,000 pounds of
fertilizer in a Rider Truck. Now, I've never mixed explosives, per se. I know
the chemical structure and the application of construction explosives. My
reputation was based on it. I helped hollow out more than 13 deep underground
military bases in the United States. I worked on the Malta project in West
Germany, in Spain and in Italy. I can tell you from experience that a nitrate
explosion would have hardly shattered the windows of the federal building in
Oklahoma City. It would have killed a few people and knocked part of the facing
off the building, but it would have never have done that kind of damage. I
believe I have been lied to, and I am not taking it any longer, so I'm telling
you that I have been lied to."
In 1987 Philip married Cynthia Marie Drayer Simon. The two had met in June of
1986 at a meeting of the Oregon Agate and Mineral Society. As Cynthia put it
years later, "He had so many interesting stories, so much information to share,
we bonded and love began to bloom." Philip and Cynthia would later have a
daughter, Marie Schneider. Unfortunately their marriage had difficulties.
According to Cynthia, health problems contributed to their break up. Philip had
multiple health concerns, many of which could have killed him. He had chronic
lower back pain that never went away, even after a back operation. He had
multiple Sclerosis, which was chronic and progressive. Occasionally he had to
use, crutches, a body brace, leg braces, bladder bag, catheter, diapers, and a
wheelchair. He often had to sleep in a hospital bed with railings, a helmet, and
body braces. When Cynthia first met him he was taking Dilantin for seizures, and
almost died 3 times from this medication due to an allergic reaction.
Philip also had Brittle Bone Syndrome (osteoporosis) and cancer in his arms.
He had hundreds of shrapnel wounds, a plate in his head with a metal fragment in
his brain, fingers missing from his left hand. There was a scar that ran down
from the top of his throat to below his belly button, and another scar that ran
from just under his ribs, side to side. Cynthia would later state " Philip was a
complex person. he had brain damage after a bomb was dropped on him while
working as a civilian structural engineer for Morrison-Knudsen in Vietnam. He
had a Rhyolite clearance. He was learning disabled, brilliant in some areas, yet
unable to fill out a form in the Doctors office. Able to create time travel
formulas, but unable to budget money; he had to file bankruptcy one year. I now
believe that he had been 'deprogrammed' so that he could not remember most of
his 'past' life. But something began to happen shortly after we first met.
Perhaps because of the seizures, or because he changed his medication, or
because he now had another person to talk to that was interested in what he had
to say, he began to remember the old days. Being the scientific, logical minded
person I am, I listened intently to his stories with a grain of salt, waiting
for additional information to verify them.
I can still remember the night he began to talk in some foreign language
(sounded like Chinese and another night in what sounded like French.) Philip
told me he knew 11 languages before the brain damage. After the space shuttle,
Challenger, exploded, I visited Philip in his apartment. He had a large chalk
board with complicated formulas which proved that a 'cosmosphere' had shot down
the space shuttle."
Cynthia also said, "It was a difficult marriage for both of us, which was
complicated by a failed self-employed business selling rocks, minerals, and
antiques, Philip's reconstructive surgery on scars on his chest, his lower back
operation, my gall-bladder surgery and the birth of our daughter, all within a 1
year period. The pressures of our new family, failed business, and physical
problems culminated in our divorce in 1990. Philip was an emotional abuser and
could be very mean and abusive. He was a complex person - part genius and part
paranoid schizophrenic. We had a bad marriage but developed it into a great
friendship."
One of Philip's more amazing stories was his fathers alleged involvement with
the "Philadelphia Experiment." When Philip's father, Captain Oscar Schneider
(Navy Medical Corp.) died in 1993, Philip discovered original letters in his
basement. According to Philip, the letters were evidence that the Philadelphia
Experiment actually existed, and that Oscar Schneider had been a participant in
it after the crew members had been quarantined in a Virginia psychiatric ward.
Captain Schneider supposedly autopsied the bodies of the crew members as they
died, and found alien implants in their arms, legs, behind their eyes, and deep
inside their brains. Captain Schneider was confused by these implants, so they
obviously were not military. They had to have been alien in nature, and the
small "transistor" like item was discovered before transistors had been
invented. Here was evidence that either by accident, or on purpose, aliens were
involved with the Philadelphia Experiment, and were probably responsible for its
failure.
Also discovered in Oscar's basement were photographs taken during Opreration
Crossroads, in which a nuclear device was used on Bikini Island. Authentic
military photos taken from an airplane showed UFOs raising up from the lagoon
and flying through the mushroom cloud. These photos however, mysteriously
disappeared from Philips apartment at the time of his death.
Some investigators in Philip Schneider's mysterious death have had problems
believing some of the incredible claims he made before he died. Even those who
knew Philip when he was alive didn't always accept the validity of his stories.
Cynthia Schneider noted that when Philip was under crisis or pressure, he would
tell people that he had been arrested, or that people from the sheriff's office
or government had been at his door. This was the way he expressed his crisis.
Unfortunately she claims, sometimes it was true, Like "the little boy who cried
wolf," his friends became numb to his reports.
Despite the fact that Philip's claims seemed too wild or disturbing to be
true, he obviously believed in what he was saying. Philip claimed that his life
was in danger because he was revealing the truth, a truth that some would kill
to keep secret. He borrowed a gun from his friend Ron Utella, stating that he
felt he needed protection and that there had been several attempts to have his
car run off the road. In the end, though, Philip's safeguards were not enough to
save his life. On either January 10 or 11, 1996, Philip Schneider died under
mysterious circumstances.
After the initial cause of Philip's death was listed as a stroke, Cynthia
asked to see the body before it was to be prepared for cremation. She was
dissuaded by the funeral director who felt that the body's advanced state of
decomposition would be too traumatic. However, she could not shake the feeling
that something was wrong. The next day Cynthia was contacted by Detective Randy
Harris who said that "something was wrong" - that there were marks on Philip's
neck. Philip Schneider's body was removed from the funeral home and autopsied by
Dr. Karen Gunson, Medical Examiner for Multnomah County, Oregon.
The autopsy revealed that Philip had in fact died as a result of having a
rubber hose wrapped three times, tightly around his neck and tied in a knot. The
conclusion from the autopsy was that he had committed suicide. He had wrapped
the tubing around his neck, tied it in a knot, blocked the flow of blood to his
head, became unconscious and finally died.
More surprising was Cynthia's discovery that Philips lecture material,
unknown metals, military photographs, and all notes for his unwritten book on
UFOs were missing from his apartment. However, money and other valuables were
left untouched.
When he was found in his apartment, Philip's body was in an unusual position.
His feet were under the bed, his head was in a wheelchair seat, at an unusual
angle, the rest of his body was on the floor, hands by his sides. There was
blood found on the floor near the wheelchair, but no blood was found on the
wheelchair. There were no apparent wounds on Philip's body to account for the
blood. No sample of the blood was taken due to the initial belief that Philip
had died of natural causes. No suicide note has ever been found. In fact, Mark
Rufener, a long time friend of Philip said, " I saw Philip the weekend of
January 6 and 7th 1996. We were going to buy land in Colorado. We were excited
because he was going to hire me to help write a book about his knowledge on UFOs
and aliens, the One World Government, and the Black Budget. He did not commit
suicide, he was murdered and it was made to look like a suicide. "
When he was alive, Philip enjoyed eating out at the 76 Truck Stop in Aurora,
Oregon. A waitress named Donna remembered his stops when they would talk about
his work. Philip mentioned to her that there had been 19 attempts to stop him
from talking. Donna states that Philip said "If they ever say that I have
committed suicide, you will know that I have been murdered." She said that
Philip believed he had a mission to talk about a government cover-up about
aliens and UFOs, and that there were forces out to stop people who talked.
Was Philip Schneider murdered? His ex-wife Cynthia believes this to be the
case. She thinks that Philip was met by someone he knew and injected with a drug
in order to incapacitate him. The assailants then wrapped the rubber hose around
his neck, asphyxiating him. In fact, shortly after Philip's death, several
friends told Cynthia that they had seen Philip with an unknown blond women
several weeks before he died. During the course of the meeting, Cynthia noticed
a long-haired blond women in a car, watching the meeting through the window with
a pair of binoculars. When they tried to approach the car, the woman quickly
sped away. Cynthia later traced the license plate number and it turned out to be
from a truck, with the plate reported as stolen. Cynthia thinks the reports of a
blond haired women is significant because Cynthia's mother, through a channeling
session, had told her that a woman wearing a blond wig was involved in Philip's
death.
Despite the fact that officials have closed the case as a suicide, and
Philip's surviving siblings have tried to persuade Cynthia to accept the ruling,
Cynthia has not stopped in her efforts to discover the truth in her ex-husband's
death. She says that she knows in her heart and soul that Philip would not have
committed suicide willingly, and she still hopes that Philips blood and urine
can be relocated by the Multnomah County Medical Examiner's Office and examined
for traces of drugs that would not normally be there. However, as the days go by
the reality for such tests grows smaller. She still hopes that someone will come
forward with pertinent information to help her find justice for Philips death.
Until that time comes, Cynthia Drayer will continue her task, perhaps putting
her own safety at risk. That prospect doesn't frighten her anymore, " I just
want people to know the truth about Philip Schneider, a person who died trying
to expose the difficult truths of this world."
If you have any information concerning the death of Philip Schneider, you can
E-mail Cynthia Drayer at: cimbid@aol.com
Oregon, saw his car in
the parking lot, but received no answer at the door. Finally, on January 17th,
1996, Al Pratt, along with the manager of the Autumn Park Apartments and a
detective from the Clackamas County Sheriff's office entered the apartment.
Inside, they found the body of Philip Schneider. Apparently he had been dead for
5 to 7 days. The Clackamas County Coroner's office initially attributed Philip
Schneider's death to a stroke. However, in the following days disturbing details
about his death began to surface, leading some to believe that Philip Schneider
had not died from a stroke, but had in fact been murdered.
