A former US Army sniper claims a secret military operation unfolded near Area 51, where at least one American soldier was allegedly killed during a confrontation with reptilian-looking creatures.
Nick Betts, co-host of the Liberty Risk podcast, said an unnamed member of the military’s elite special missions community told him that soldiers were issued energy-based weapons to track three creatures inside a top-secret US facility.
The alleged mission led the team into a deep underground tunnel near the Nevada installation. Betts said one soldier was struck in the chest and killed instantly by the same kind of directed-energy weapon.
“They said that they f****** shot this creature that was bipedal, mildly reptilian looking but had fingers and was using this weapon system,” Betts said.
Betts said the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) member shared the account during a night of drinking while the two were involved in a documentary about the ongoing war in Ukraine.
The veteran sniper, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, told his Navy SEAL co-hosts, Kevin Kent and Ryan Williams, that he believed the account could be genuine because of the intense reaction from another soldier allegedly involved in the Area 51 mission.
Betts said both his source and the other JSOC member warned him never to discuss what he had been told. He also claimed their participation in the documentary was mysteriously cancelled immediately after he asked about the incident the next morning.
“I would have chalked it up to the wine if it wasn’t for being choke slammed up against a f****** wall in the morning at 6am,” Betts said.
Area 51 covers more than 2.9 million acres and sits within the Nevada Test and Training Range.
The US military and the White House have maintained that no physical evidence has ever been found proving the existence of UFOs or extraterrestrials.
Betts acknowledged that the unnamed JSOC soldier was drinking when he told the story, but said the source remained lucid and was not “sloppy” at the time.
He added that the other special forces soldier was not in the same hotel room in Poland when he heard the account. That separation, Betts said, made the soldier’s subsequent violent reaction appear genuine to him.
“I’m like, ‘Hey, so and so told me you know a thing or two about aliens.’ Dude, he f****** stops, turns me, grabs me by the f****** neck, and f****** slams me up against the wall,” Betts recalled during a podcast episode in December 2025.
“And he’s like, ‘Nick, I f****** swear to God. Never f****** talk about this again.’”
According to the soldier who allegedly disclosed the account, military officials at Fort Bragg in North Carolina called the JSOC unit to an emergency operation at an underground base a few miles from Area 51.
The Nevada facility has been linked to claims of secret UFO research and experimental aircraft development dating back to the 1940s.
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After traveling from Fort Bragg, the team was allegedly briefed at Area 51 and supplied with advanced weapons that fired energy blasts rather than conventional bullets. The soldiers were then flown by Black Hawk helicopter to an entrance leading into a lengthy underground tunnel.
The theory that shape-shifting reptilian aliens secretly control Earth gained widespread attention through conspiracy theorist David Icke in the late 20th century (Stock Image).
Betts said the emergency began after the underground site stopped transmitting its routine radio checks. A quick reaction force sent to investigate also failed to return.
The former sniper did not say whether his source knew if those soldiers had been killed or remained missing.
Once inside the facility, the source claimed that a team of about six soldiers began sweeping through the tunnels and encountered the first reptilian invader using the same type of weapons they had been given.
‘As they’re coming around on this outside, the outside left guy gets f****** hosed with one of the guns that they’re using like straight to the chest and f****** dies,’ Betts recounted.
The group allegedly returned fire and killed the creature. Betts’ JSOC source added that the mission ended with all three reptilian aliens being found and killed.
However, the remains of the dead US soldier were allegedly cremated on site, which the rest of the team protested because of the serviceman’s Catholic beliefs.
The source also claimed that a cover story was created, saying the soldier died in a training accident that incinerated his body.
According to Betts, the mysterious base the reptilians had invaded was more advanced than even the most secure levels of the Pentagon.
Area 51 sits on a highly restricted part of the Nevada desert which has been tied to UFO theories since the 1940s
‘It was, you know, almost looked like “Independence Day,” where they have the glass windows and things like that and access points with full handprints and biometrics and then also an iris reader,’ he described.
The survivors of the alleged battle in Nevada were taken to sign documents, possibly a non-disclosure agreement, and underwent biometric scanning of their hands and eyes.
Betts noted that after he was ordered to leave the documentary set in Poland, which took place at an unrevealed point after 2022, the two soldiers never spoke with him again.
Betts’s claims are not the first mention of a race of beings which allegedly appear to be reptilian.
Multiple government whistleblowers, including astrophysicist Dr Eric Davis and retired Air Force Major David Grusch, have alleged that at least four alien species exist, including a race known as the Reptilians.
