Illustration of Apocalyptic Earth
Dames, who organised Killshot speaking tours and sold DVDs showing fans how to survive the event, said he encountered the Killshot while 'remote viewing.'
A 'psychic spy' who once worked for the CIA issued one last vision before his recent death, warning that a devastating solar catastrophe known as the 'Killshot' could soon plunge Earth into chaos.

Retired Major Ed Dames, one of the most recognizable figures tied to the US government's secret remote-viewing experiments during the Cold War, claimed that humanity was entering the beginning stages of the event.

Dames, who died in March at the age of 76, believed enormous blasts from the sun would eventually strike Earth with such force that millions could die instantly as power grids failed, communication systems collapsed and global panic spiraled into violence and disease.

He warned the 'Killshot sequence' may begin during the current Solar Maximum, a volatile period of heightened solar activity expected to last through the end of 2026.

In his final recorded interview, Dames linked the looming catastrophe to heightened solar activity and the appearance of a mysterious comet moving through the inner solar system.

He warned that society would rapidly unravel once infrastructure failed, telling listeners that governments would be unable to save their populations from the aftermath.
'You wake up and there's no power and there's no water and there's no gasoline, it's going to be a bad nightmare scenario,' Dames said in an October 2025 interview released last month.

'That's what you're going to be confronted with. The government is not going to help you.'
Major Ed Dames, a 'remote viewer'
The death last month of retired Major Ed Dames, a 'remote viewer' who worked in a secret psychic espionage unit, has renewed attention on his most controversial prediction
While Dames built a devoted following, his predictions were frequently criticized because many of his specific timelines failed to materialize.

Over the years, he repeatedly claimed the Killshot was imminent, but previous predicted dates passed without incident.

Skeptics have also long argued that remote viewing itself has never been scientifically validated under controlled conditions, despite decades of government-funded experimentation.

Still, in his final interview with the Michael Decon Program last year, Dames insisted the warning signs were finally appearing.

The former Army intelligence officer spent decades promoting the chilling prediction, which he said he first encountered while participating in classified psychic espionage programs tied to Project Stargate.

Project Stargate was a top-secret US intelligence program from the 1970s to 1995, which investigated psychic phenomena, specifically 'remote viewing,' the ability to gather intelligence on distant or hidden targets using clairvoyance

He pointed specifically to Solar Cycle 25, the current period of heightened solar activity, which scientists say has produced unusually strong solar storms and sunspot activity.
Dames said: 'Right now we're at the beginning of the solar cycle. 25 Solar Max. Solar Max should last for about two years, and the sun's doing unprecedented stuff. There are more solar spots than there have been in the last 20-something years.

'I predict that this Solar Max will be the beginning of the kill shot sequence. But more, more interestingly, intriguingly, the comet C/2023 A3 that's in the sky.

'The timing of that appearance and the orbit exactly matches this passing space body with this huge event called the kill shot looming ahead.'
The comet referenced by Dames, known as C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, is a real object tracked by astronomers, although there is no scientific evidence linking it to an apocalyptic solar disaster.
He continued: 'This comet, we described as a passing space body. We didn't know what it was, a planetoid or a comet, either one that is concomitant with the initiation of the kill shot sequence, and this comet, the trajectory and the timing is a perfect match.'
Dames had long claimed that precursor events would occur before the Killshot fully unfolded.

Among the signs he pointed to were escalating global tensions, a possible nuclear exchange involving North Korea and unusual celestial events involving objects in space.

He also believed only certain geographic locations identified through remote viewing would remain relatively safe during the catastrophe.

Dames spent years selling books, DVDs and speaking tours focused on surviving the event.

In one of his descriptions of the catastrophe, he wrote:
'The true devastation of today's Killshot will be unlike anything we have previously seen in history with solar radiation actually hitting ground level; resulting in the initial deaths of millions with implications resulting in economic collapse, war...'
The Killshot prediction has circulated for years in paranormal and conspiracy circles, but Dames claimed during his last interview that the sequence was finally beginning.

According to Dames, the event would involve intense solar activity so severe that radiation from the sun would penetrate Earth's atmosphere and strike the surface directly.

He described a world thrown into immediate catastrophe, with economic collapse, war and mass unrest following the initial disaster.

'More than 30 years ago, we were looking for nuclear war and finding out that our star was going on a rampage,' Dames said.

Scientists have long warned that severe solar storms are capable of disrupting satellites, GPS systems, radio communications and electrical grids.

NASA and NOAA are currently monitoring Solar Cycle 25, an active period known as Solar Maximum, which has already produced powerful solar flares and geomagnetic storms visible across parts of the US.

Remote viewing was a controversial practice explored by the US government during the Cold War in which specially trained individuals attempted to mentally perceive distant people, objects or locations.

The programs were tied to fears that the Soviet Union was researching psychic phenomena for espionage purposes.

Dames served in a secretive US Army intelligence unit connected to those efforts after first serving in the Airborne Infantry during the Vietnam War era.

After studying biophysics and Chinese Mandarin at UC Berkeley, he re-enlisted and later became a tactical electronic warfare officer during the Cold War before being transferred into the remote-viewing program.

Dames claimed his role involved investigating Soviet exotic weapons projects, including biological warfare and directed-energy systems, and that remote viewers occasionally provided intelligence that satellites and field agents could not obtain.