A former US Army sniper has claimed that a secret military operation took place near Area 51 and at least one American soldier was killed in a battle with reptilian aliens.
Nick Betts, a co-host of the Liberty Risk podcast, said an unnamed member of the from the military's elite special missions unit revealed to him that he and other soldiers were given energy weapons to hunt down three creatures which had invaded a top-secret US facility.
During the mission into a deep underground tunnel near the Nevada base, one soldier was allegedly shot in the chest and killed instantly by the same type 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 member of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) revealed what had happened during a night of drinking as they participated in a documentary about the ongoing Ukraine war.
The veteran sniper who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan told his Navy SEAL co-hosts, Kevin Kent and Ryan Williams, he believed the story was true after the shocking reaction of another soldier who was allegedly on the mission to Area 51.
According to Betts, both his source and the other JSOC member threatened him to never talk about what had been shared with him, adding that their role in the documentary was mysteriously cancelled immediately after Betts had asked about the incident the following 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 revealed.
Area 51, an area of more than 2.9 million acres, is located at the Nevada Test and Training Range
The US military and the White House have maintained that there has never been any physical evidence that UFOs or extraterrestrials exist.
Betts also noted that the story from the unnamed JSOC soldier was told while he was drunk, but added that his source was still lucid and not 'sloppy' at the time.
Also, the fellow special forces soldier on the alleged Area 51 mission was not in the same hotel room in Poland when Betts heard the story – convincing him that the soldier's violent reaction was genuine.
'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 leaked the story to Betts, military officials at North Carolina's Fort Bragg summoned the JSOC unit for an emergency mission to an underground base a few miles from Area 51.
The Nevada complex has been tied to claims of secret UFO research and the development of experimental aircraft since the 1940s.
After traveling from Fort Bragg, the team was allegedly briefed at Area 51 itself, given high-tech weapons which used energy blasts instead of bullets and then flown by Black Hawk helicopter to an entry point for a long tunnel leading into the complex.
The reptilian theory, claiming shape-shifting reptilian aliens secretly control Earth, surged in popularity through conspiracy theorist David Icke in the late 20th century (Stock Image)
Betts revealed that the emergency began after the underground site stopped sending regular radio checks and a first quick reaction force failed to return when they were sent in.
The sniper did not reveal if his source knew whether these soldiers were dead or still 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.