Kenn Thomas

Kenn Thomas (June 12, 1958 – September 22, 2023) was a conspiracy writer, archivist, and editor and publisher of Steamshovel Press, a parapolitical conspiracy magazine.

Thomas, who was born in St. Louis, Missouri, wrote over a dozen books on various conspiracy topics. These included NASA, Nazis & JFK; Maury Island UFO, about the possibility that Fred Crisman was connected to the assassination of John F. Kennedy; and The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro, about the Inslaw affair. In 2004, Feral House published a new edition of The Octopus, extending the suggestion of connections to the post-September 11 attacks world and al-Qaeda. Feral House published a new edition of Maury Island UFO in 2011 as JFK & UFO: Military-Industrial Conspiracy and Cover-Up from Maury Island to Dallas.

Thomas called his research interest "parapolitics", the study of conspiracies of all colors—from alien abductions and the Illuminati, to the John F. Kennedy assassination and the September 11, 2001 attacks. The New Yorker called his work "on the cutting edge" of conspiracy. His name became a by-word for a conspiracy theorist, enough so that baseball was described in print as involving "enough fishy behavior to keep Kenn Thomas swarming for years."

Thomas appeared at Conspiracy Con in 2003 and 2007.