Do you know the Black Knight Satellite theory?

23 years ago, NASA reported a piece of space debris in low orbit that was nothing more than a thermal blanket lost by an astronaut. Yet, ufologists and other conspiracy theorists have estimated that it was an object of extraterrestrial origin that was about 13,000 years old.

Tesla in contact with aliens?

In 1998 during the STS-88 mission – 13th mission of NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour – an astronaut lets out a thermal blanket during a spacewalk. This object was to equip part of the device. Before this blanket ended up burned in the Earth’s atmosphere, the astronauts immortalized it in an image. In its database relating to space debris, NASA references the object under the name STS088-724-66. However, a community of ufologists and conspiracy theory enthusiasts renamed the object Black Knight Satellite. According to them, it is a technological object of extraterrestrial origin dating back 13,000 years and in near-polar orbit around the Earth.
Credits: NASA/Wikipedia However, this story of the Black Knight Satellite goes back much further. Conspiracy theorists believe that the first evidence of the object’s extraterrestrial nature comes from Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), famous for his leading role in the development and adoption of alternating current for the transport and distribution of electricity. It must be said that several times, the inventor had claimed to have received communications of a regular and mathematical nature from Mars. These receptions date back to 1899, during experiments on radio waves. Today scientists think that it was a pulsar or waves that objects in orbit emit naturally. For conspiracy theorists, Tesla probably made contact with extraterrestrials.

Other cases related to the Black Knight Satellite

Later in 1927, Norwegian engineer Jørgen Hals noticed a curious phenomenon. The radio messages he sent came back to him a few moments later. This type of echo had an extraterrestrial origin, according to the person concerned. Much later, a certain Duncan Lunan claimed that the Black Knight Satellite was at the origin of this echo. In 1954, various newspapers reported various testimonies, including that of a retired military man converted into a UFO hunter. According to him, the US Air Force had detected two satellites in Earth orbit while at the time, no one had the corresponding technology. In 1960, another testimony mentioned this time the US Navy, which had detected a dark object in the sky. This one was in an orbit inclined at 79° to the equator and observed a revolution movement of 104.5 minutes. However, the US Navy was at the same time following the fragment of the launch envelope of the Discoverer VIII satellitewhose orbit was similar. Since then, all these stories have obviously is being debunked. But this type of belief persists over time. Indeed, everything that humans cannot (yet) explain is the subject of the wildest beliefs and fantasies.