Shelley Lewis resides in California and works as a teacher, educating children about science while simultaneously creating movies to promote the Flat Earth idea.

“I don’t really call it a belief anymore, because I have so much evidence that it’s become more of a scientific fact,” Shelley said with UNILAD.

She said, “Something is going on. Either we live in a simulation or the Earth is flat, but what we’ve been told is obviously doubtful.”

Before becoming a Flat Earther, Shelley aspired to be an astronaut and attended the elite West Point Military Academy.

After serving, she now devotes her time to making documentaries on the Flat Earth, developing vegan cuisines, and educating.

Shelley teaches physics at a private school, but she emphasizes that she does not teach the Flat Earth hypothesis to her students and instead works from ‘the textbook’.

“I wanted to be an astronaut,” she explained. “My ambition was to be the first woman to walk on the moon.

“I thought people who believed the Earth was flat were ruining science.”

Naturally, things have changed, and Shelley claims that a pilot acquaintance introduced her to the concept of a flat Earth.

Shelley became convinced after completing her own investigation, adding, “I started interviewing pilots, engineers, and ballistics weaponry experts, and all of this was pointing to a flat earth.”

She explained how the Flat Earth hypothesis works, saying, “If you imagine a disc or even a clock, it’s a contained system.” So, when people say, “Oh, you know, the Flat Earthers, they’re going to fall off the edge,” they’re wrong.

“It could either be an infinite plane, or it could be a contained system with a dome.”

She said that this is built on pillars, with the ‘self-contained’ system surrounded by water and ‘the throne room of God, The River of Life’.

Shelley also stated that she is a ‘Biblical’ Flat Earther who is ‘still science-based’.

The Flat Earth idea has been defined as a sort of science denial, with supporters continuing to believe in the theory despite overwhelming evidence and thousands of years of scientific agreement.

Shelley agreed with the consensus, stating, “You’re going against science; you’re going against the big, you know, Newton and Kepler and all these big scientists; you’re basically questioning all these years.”

However, she remains unfazed, stating, “Isn’t that the essence of science?” Aren’t we permitted to ask questions, and when we discover new knowledge, the scientific approach is to study and observe?

Shelley stated that her parents adore her ‘no matter what’, while one of her in-laws ‘wants nothing to do with’ her.

When asked how others reacted to her being a Flat Earther, she responded, “There were a lot of raised eyebrows, like, what the hell? Is she okay? Could you please run a welfare check on this girl?

She went on to explain that she believes people are becoming more ‘open’ to the Flat Earth theory, saying: “It’s still a fringe topic, but there are a lot of people who are questioning it as well.”

She continued: “I think people are more open to it, but it is controversial.”

The ancient Greeks were the first to recognize the Earth as a globe.

Aryabhata, an Indian mathematician, later replicated Eratosthenes’ exceptional precision in computing the Earth’s circumference.

Despite popular current views about the Middle Ages, the Earth was universally considered to be round throughout this period, with the earliest surviving globe dating back to 1492.

From the nineteenth century until the establishment of the International Flat Earth Society in 1956, the belief in a flat earth gained popularity.

You’d think that the space race and Moon landings would have resolved the matter, but the hypothesis is nothing if not tenacious.

When shown an image of the Earth from orbit, International Flat Earth Society founder Samuel Shenton commented, “It’s easy to see how a photo like this could fool the untrained eye.”

Since then, there have been several photographs of Earth taken from space, as well as technologies such as GPS satellites, broadcasters, and airplane navigation.

Despite this, in the age of social media, the number of Flat Earthers has increased.