[3] 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.
[4] 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.
[citation needed] 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.