Declassified CIA files reveal claims that Jesus predicted the end of the world.
One book from the CIA archive has resurfaced in 2019 and reignited conspiracy theories surrounding the Earth's fate.
In the 1966 book The Adam and Eve Story, author Chan Thomas outlines a series of unusual claims about the history of the world and the potential future of Earth. The book suggests that the planet is subject to 'cyclical pole shifts' roughly every 6,500 years, leading to disasters on the scale of Noah's Flood in the Bible. According to Thomas, these events have occurred throughout history and were supposedly foreseen by various historical and religious figures, including Jesus.
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At the time of writing, Thomas was reportedly involved in UFO research linked to the US Air Force and was a self-acclaimed psychic. The author reportedly was reportedly employed by aerospace firm McDonnell Douglas by Dr. Robert Wood, who has since gone on to become a prominent expert on UFOs with MUFON. Woods described Thomas as an 'exceptional innovative' man who 'claimed to be in contact with ETs.'
One of the more striking claims in the book is that Jesus was not a prophetic figure we know of from the Bible, but rather a scholar who had trained in India. It writes that Jesus had predicted a coming disaster and attempted to prepare people for the end times - with the last cataclysm being Noah's Flood. Thomas even suggests that Jesus’s final words were spoken in an ancient Indian language, and that the resurrection on Easter Sunday was actually a departure via a 'space vehicle.'
The book's title comes from Thomas's interpretation that the Genesis story is a metaphor for the fall of an earlier advanced civilisation, in an extinction event before the Great Flood.
Pointing to astronomical evidence, he believes that Earth’s exposure to certain 'null zones' in the Milky Way will trigger magnetic pole shifts, leading to widespread destruction.
As for the current risk, Thomas argues that we may be approaching another such event. The author claims that no continent will survive the devastation and will each face its own version of the catastrophic event.
While the reasons for the CIA's classification of this text are unknown, some have suggested the agency was concerned the book would cause mass panic. Records show the book was published in 1963 and 1965, with a copy entering CIA archives in 1966. It remained largely obscure until a brief re-release in 1993 and hasn’t been formally published since. However, versions of the 'banned' book can still reportedly be found online.