In 1963, astronaut Gordon Cooper supposedly reported a UFO sighting during his 15th orbit in Mercury 9 that was confirmed by tracking stations, but there is no evidence that this happened. A follow-up article confirmed that the object was "the remains of an Air Force Discoverer 8 satellite that had gone astray."
Navy had detected a dark object thought to be a Soviet spy satellite in orbit. In February 1960, Time reported that the U.S. The program never put anything into orbit, and it is unrelated to the Black Knight satellite legend. A "Black Knight satellite launcher" project announced in 1964 was considered a priority by the Ministry of Aviation. Ī British rocket called the Black Knight rocket was used in conjunction with the Blue Streak missile program between 19, to test re-entry vehicles. Skeptics have noted that Keyhoe had been promoting a UFO book at the time, and the news stories were likely written " tongue-in-cheek" and not intended to be taken seriously. At that time, no country had the technology to launch a satellite. In 1954, UFO researcher Donald Keyhoe told newspapers that the United States Air Force had reported that two satellites orbiting Earth had been detected. Brian Dunning of the Skeptoid podcast attributes Tesla's 1899 radio signals to pulsars, which were not identified until 1968. The origin of the Black Knight legend is often "retrospectively dated" back to natural extraterrestrial repeating sources supposedly heard during the 1899 radio experiments of Nikola Tesla and long delayed echoes first heard by amateur radio operator Jørgen Hals in Oslo, Norway, in 1928. These ingredients have been chopped up, stirred together and stewed on the internet to one rambling and inconsistent dollop of myth. According to senior education support officer Martina Redpath of Armagh Planetarium in Northern Ireland:īlack Knight is a jumble of completely unrelated stories reports of unusual science observations, authors promoting fringe ideas, classified spy satellites and people over-interpreting photos. History Īccording to some UFO conspiracists, the Black Knight is an artificial satellite of extraterrestrial origin that has orbited Earth for approximately 13,000 years the "satellite" story is most likely a conflation of several disconnected stories about various objects and their interpretations, all of them well documented independently and none using the term Black Knight upon their first publication. Ī photo taken during the STS-88 mission claimed by some to show the Black Knight satellite is catalogued by NASA as a photo of space debris, and space journalist James Oberg considers it as probable debris of a thermal blanket confirmed as lost during the mission. This conspiracy theory combines several unrelated stories into one narrative. The Black Knight satellite conspiracy theory claims that a spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin is in near- polar orbit of the Earth, and that NASA is covering up its existence and origin. Fourth International Posadist - Argentina.Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force - US.Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program - US.
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