Over half a century ago, the United States was in a seemingly endless war with Vietnam. Over two million young men were drafted and sent to the lush green jungles of Southeast Asia. Those deployed quickly learned about the horrors of modern combat. Millions of innocent civilians lost their lives and 58,220 Americans died in battle. Military personnel who survived the gruesome conflict returned with physical and emotional scars. All shared harrowing firsthand stories about fighting ruthless militias. However, one soldier’s astonishing experience stands out from typical veteran accounts. What he encountered during a routine mission would haunt him for the rest of his life.
Soldiers on Patrol
1970 a U.S. Army corporal was stationed thirty miles from the demilitarized zone in Southern Vietnam. ‘John’ and his team were tasked with constructing bivouac sites throughout the region. One evening he was patrolling the area in search of enemy troops. After steadily marching through dense brush the group noticed scattered movement nearby. Each man instinctively braced for armed revolutionists. While hunkering down, sporadic blurs of swift motion could be seen in the dark valley ahead. Within 15 minutes, the activity ceased so they continued trekking. Moonlight illuminated the rugged terrain as John sauntered forward. In front of him were rocks and boulders unnaturally stacked next to a peculiar structure.
An Unusual Cave
Bored into the hillside was a large entry to an underground tunnel system. Its smooth edges appeared to be forged by powerful machinery. The sergeant suspected this unusual doorway could lead to a Viet Cong supply depot. John and his fellow service members approached the passage for further investigation. A putrid stench similar to rotting flesh immediately filled the air. Several men vomited and ran back towards the woods. Undeterred, John pointed his flashlight into the lair. Thick fog engulfed the grotto and obstructed his visibility. Behind him, the forest grew ominously quiet as a deep rumbling emanated from the entrance. An intense feeling of dread pulsed through his veins and as he looked back at the other soldiers their eyes were wide with fear.
Subterranean Reptilians Emerge
Dawn started to break bringing warm sun rays that illuminated the scene. Something inside the cave began stirring and a figure suddenly emerged. Standing before the horrified squadron was a seven-foot-tall reptilian humanoid. Another massive creature followed and the pair produced guttural hissing sounds. John described these beings as “upright lizards” with shiny scaled skin. Both possessed serpentine-like features and large forward-facing eyes. The entities wore matching green hooded robes. Without any command, the stunned infantry opened fire. Seconds later their weapons were emptied and the surrounding vegetation was obliterated. Once the smoke dissipated he realized his saurian antagonists had vanished. Those present believed they retreated into the cavern.
Following the terrifying ordeal, John was never debriefed. He completed his tour and remained in the armed forces for many years. Upon retiring from the federal sector, he decided to come forward publicly. Investigators received multiple forms of identification verifying his military record and believe he is telling the truth. Although this incident sounds unbelievable, declassified documents describe numerous encounters with hostile subterranean reptilians. John is not the first person to observe these elusive cryptids and will certainly not be the last. Highly respected individuals around the world— from government engineers to police officers, are witnessing bipedal lacertids. Whistleblowers risk losing everything by sharing their stories so the least we can do in return is listen.
[This article is based on a firsthand account that was reported to investigator Lon Strickler.]
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This was such a fun read. I felt like I was actually there! The stories from military officers, cops, etc really make me wonder. These people are hard working and level headed. As you said in the ending: they have nothing to gain and everything to lose.
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I agree. Especially the fact that John waited until he retired from the military before he shared his experience. It was obviously a very memorable/ frightening experience for it to stay with him all those years.
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Makes you wonder about all the things other service members have seen that remain silent.
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Now I really want to travel to southern Vietnam…
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My dad is a Vietnam veteran. I have to ask him if he came across any giant lizard people while he was there.
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I have a feeling the dudes were smoking some wacky tobacky and saw some disfigured person that lived in the cave. Probably like the Vietnamese version of Sloth from the goonies.
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Reptilians have been depicted in artwork and legends for thousands of years. Quetzalcoatl the flying serpent/ dragon emperors in Asia/ Jin in the Middle East/ snake-like devil in Christianity/ snake brothers of the Hopi Native Americans, the list goes on an on. Are all these people that had no way to communicate with one another lying? I believe they really encountered a secretive species. One that exists to this day.
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There are also artifacts of reptilian from around the world that were carbon dated. Not to mention cave paintings and other renditions of the same creatures. What are the odds that people on nearly every continent on the planet “hallucinated” the same beings??
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When you take halucinogenics there are some very common things people see …
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Not too long ago I would have laughed at the topic of reptilian entities. In recent years I’m starting to see the world in a whole new light. Things seem so crazy that at this point if I found out an alien invasion already happened and shapeshifting lizard people took positions of power, well… it wouldn’t even surprise me. Things seem to get more insane by the day.
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I think the covid era really opened up a lot of peoples eyes to what’s really going on. In my opinion there is a long planned agenda unfolding before our eyes. I believe those behind the scenes have always been doing sketchy and nefarious things, it’s just now they are doing them more openly.
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Look up Phil Schneider. He was a government insider from a military family with a top secret security clearance. He said that gray aliens and tall reptilian humanoids live in underground bases. He encountered them while working on DUMBs in the southwestern United States. Phil also described a horrible smell when in their vicinity.
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There’s actually a great article on this website about Phil Schneider and his suspicious death. If you search for the word “whistleblower” or “reptilian agenda” it should come up.
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There was nothing suspicious about Phil’s death. He was murdered for speaking out. Plain and simple.
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The more I learn about these reptilians the more I am convinced my ex mother-in-law is one of them. She also emanates a terrible odor and hisses when agitated.
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Wait. Two weeks ago, she wasn’t your ex mother in law.
Did things change after you compared her to a pig hybrid, or are we talking about two different people?
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Pig hybrid was my first MIL/ ex wife’s mom. I sure know how to pick ‘em. I seemed to be cursed with mutant in-laws.
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Even though I’ve researched reptilians for more than a decade Ash always seems to find obscure yet credible cases I have never heard of before. Love this site! Thanks for sharing and always giving me something to look forward to on Tuesday nights.
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Wow I read this and felt like I was on the journey in the Vietnamese jungle with John. My Fitbit has confirmed this bc my heart rate went up! Thanks for another outstanding article once my heart rate goes down I’m going to reread I don’t think I even breathed once reading this article!
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I felt like I was watching a movie! I heard something crash outside and I literally jumped off my couch because of the suspense. Luckily it was just a raccoon trying to get in my garbage can and not a killer reptilian. 😂
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Karsci the Fitbit is a tracking device be very careful they are trying to get all of your physical information and also are trying to get people used to be cyborgs.
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Thank you! I got it as a birthday gift and all I use it for is counting steps it started wanting to sync with my phone etc I stopped those notifications but good to know.
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Yessss love the reptilian content, thanks for posting! Someone needs to make these articles into a Tv series. We need to hit up the Ancient Alien producers. 👽
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I saw reptilians while I was on a DMT trip. I also had that “feeling of dread” when they approached me. I am over 6 ft tall and they towered over me. They were surprisingly muscular. Their skin was a dark brownish green and they had golden eyes with slit pupils like a snake. Their face was similar to a lizard or alligator with a flat snout. They had these sort of raised ridges on the tops of their head and back shoulder area. It seemed like they were surprised I could see them. They didn’t say anything but watched me intently and then totally disappeared in the blink of an eye. Before this experience I honestly thought the whole reptilian thing was bs but this encounter changed my perspective. Now I think they live in another dimension but are sometimes able to travel to our world through some kind of advanced technology.
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that declassified document is insane, can’t wait to read through the rest of it this week!
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Am I the only one that feels bad for the reptilians in this story? Poor little guys finally decide to come out of their cave only to have an entire army start blasting them. No wonder why they don’t want to come to the surface!
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The reptilians are not only in underground cave systems but have totally infiltrated our government and taken positions of power. These beings are thousands and thousands of years more evolved than us and originally came from the star system known as alpha draconis. They are master geneticists and have all kinds of advanced technology (much of it holographic) so they can easily appear human when they choose to.
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I am still not sold on the existence of reptilians- until I see one with my own two eyes I am going to take this with a grain of salt. Whether this story is true or not, it was very entertaining to read.
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Yes they exist. It is said those types had a contract to be here that expired 2012. They had a 5 yr extension to 2017. Now humanity has the opportunity to be free of these creatures, although another breed wants to replace them. The sooner we gain awareness of the reality we can secure our future free from any of these types. Please study all you can before the growing censorship forbids us knowing a greater truth. Aim to hear from those who would not be silenced. Notice how Snowden had to flee and Wikileaks founder was also forced into hiding? Others too, what news do we not get to hear and why ? There is always Ancient Aliens on the History channel, etc. Thx
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Screw you
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hallucination or not, the question is why this veteran didn’t try to motivate some scientists to go there and explore more years after? he certainly knows the exact point in latitude longitude…..
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Check out the books by Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, a US professor. She has written several books on the interactions of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica and the US with the ‘ Star People’ . ‘Space Age Indians’ has an entire chapter dedicated to reptilians with one particular incident very similar to the one described here where a US ‘tunnel rat’, together with an Aussie colleague are attacked by two large reptilians who spit venom at them which ends up blinding one of them permanently.
On a more positive note the unconscious soldiers are rescued from the ‘smooth, tunneled out room’ by equally large (8 feet tall) blue beings. The first chapter of the same book outlines this incident and is dedicated to these beings which are very benevolent to humanity and very much resemble those from the movie Avatar and those encountered by Admiral Byrd in the lands beyond the North Pole.
Good and bad. Ying and yang.
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I’ve heard a story from a vietnam vet who encountered large praying mantis beings while he was stationed there… Crazy stuff.
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I don’t know about all this. In today’s social culture doo-doo & Yada….Yada’s….. I almost think many people think it’s “hip” to report seeing a UFO/Alien or some type of cryptic monster or something like that. There cannot be that many weird & big cryptic creatures on this Earth. How many reports are pure fantasies? More than we think!
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