A book that has remained classified by the CIA for over half a century presents a theory on how the world will end.
Authored by former US Air Force employee, UFO researcher, and self-proclaimed psychic Chan Thomas in 1966, ‘The Adam and Eve Story’ was kept under wraps by the CIA for nearly six decades.
The text was quietly declassified in 2013, but it remained hidden within the database until now.
In the book, Thomas made some extraordinary claims about the end of the world.
He proposed that a catastrophic event, akin to the ‘Great Flood’ of biblical lore, occurs on Earth every 6,500 years.
There is some scientific support for his claim, as archaeologists and geologists suggest that the flood described in the Book of Genesis might have occurred around 6,500 years ago, according to the Daily Mail.
By Thomas’ reasoning, this suggests that Earth is due for another disaster at any moment.
He predicted that the Earth’s magnetic field would abruptly reverse, causing chaos and devastation globally in just a few hours.
The initial chapter, ‘The Next Cataclysm’, suggests: “Like Noah’s 6,500 years ago… Like Adam and Eve’s 11,500 years ago… This, too, will come to pass…”
Thomas anticipated that the United States would be the first to fall, writing: “In California, the mountains shake like ferns in a breeze; the mighty Pacific rears back and piles up into a mountain of water more than two miles high, then starts its race eastward.
“In a fraction of a day, all vestiges of civilization are gone, and the great cities. Barely a stone is left where millions walked just a few hours before.”
He claimed it would take approximately three hours for North America to be destroyed, with the rest of the world following until the seventh day when ‘the horrendous rampage is over’.
According to the theory, the pole reversal would place India at the North Pole, with the Pacific Ocean at the South Pole, while Greenland and Antarctica would shed their ice caps in the new tropical climate.
NASA confirms that Earth’s magnetic poles can and have shifted numerous times in history. However, NASA scientist Martin Mlynczak dismissed Thomas’ scenario as ‘totally bogus’ in comments to The Verge.
The reason behind the classification of Thomas’ theory remains unclear, though some speculate that the CIA feared its release could cause public panic or divulge information pertinent to other secret government studies, particularly since Thomas was connected to classified UFO investigations.
To date, only 55 pages out of the 200-page book have been disclosed for reasons that are strangely unknown.