The Black Knight Satellite
Baffling people, allegedly, for decades the Black Knight Satellite has been reportedly seen and/or contacted in 1927, the 1960s, was photographed in 1998 by Space Shuttle Endeavor flight STS-88 photographed what some believe to be the Black Knight Satellite.
If you believe any of this at all, it is said that Tesla himself was aware of what would become known as the Black Knight Satellite. In fact, the rumor is he was contacted directly and that this ‘alien artifact’, which orbits the earth, was an astonishing 13,000 years old.
In 1927, Jorgen Hals is believed to have picked up a transmission by the Black Knight Satellite. At the time, he was experimenting with radio signals when he realized there was a signal echo, even after he ended the initial transmission. He could not explain the anomaly that caused what he referred to as ‘long-delayed echoes.’
TIME, in the 1960s, reported that an ‘unknown object’ (the Black Knight Satellite) was in polar orbit around the earth. This was hot news because both the US and Soviet satellites of the time were only in an equatorial orbit.
Then, of course, there is the ‘proof’ - the photo taken by pace Shuttle Endeavor flight STS-88 in 1998. However, scientists were quick to come up with more rational theories. Jerry Ross hypothesizes that it may be a cover from a space mission.
Space engineer James Oberg notes, “Every step of the way there is consistency with what I learned as a lifelong spaceflight operations specialist: why the blankets were needed, why one of them came loose, why it floated off the way it did. The difference is, for the general public all these features are unearthly to folks who are only familiar with Earthside principles of heating, working, motion and dozens of other never-before-encountered-in-history aspects of outer space."
Thanks to David G. for the blogstonishing suggestion!
The blog image comes from Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth and some believe it depicts the Black Knight Satellite.