Legendary companion "Black Knight" has several interesting facts about itself:
It got its name due to its unique shape and black color;
flies in Earth's orbit for more than thirteen thousand years;
the secret of its origin has not been revealed to this day.
This satellite flew near the ISS and was recorded by NASA cameras. And the legend about him begins with the discoveries of the nineteenth century. They talk about radio waves that came from a flying object. And artificial satellites did not yet exist. Since then, the history of the satellite has been updated with new data.
But the world of scientists does not want to admit "Black Prince" UFO satellite in Earth's orbit. Moreover, there are no clear goals for their observation of people. Therefore, something truly unidentified is flying in orbit.
There are skeptical researchers who do not accept clear evidence. It is said that this object is a fragment of a spaceship, garbage.
Troops dropped?
Today it has already been determined that "Black Knight" has been spinning in the orbit of our planet for approximately thirteen thousand years, perhaps it is even an earthly satellite, just launched into orbit by representatives of a civilization that preceded humanity.
There is also such a version - this is a fragment of a spaceship of unknown origin. By the way, at the end of the eighties, the Americans launched a communications satellite into orbit very close to the orbit of the “Black Knight”, but the “American” soon disappeared from the radar, either having encountered a mysterious UFO, or disappeared for some other reason.
In general, much in this case still remains a mystery, as does the "Black Knight", the name of which was invented by the Soviet science fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev.
However, if we assume that an extraterrestrial satellite left orbit to drop troops on Earth, then the version of the debris immediately disappears, and the version that this is a prehistoric spacecraft does not stand up to criticism. It turns out that "Black Knight"- it is still an extraterrestrial artificial satellite, and, most likely, a permanent observer of our civilization.
Step backQUESTION No. 113. Where did the unknown artificial satellite come from in Earth's orbit? Who created it and why?
From media reports about the “Black Knight” dated March 23, 2017. on the websites Kp.ru and Esoreiter.ru:
“Black Knight” above the Earth - photo taken by American astronauts in 1998
Media reports about the destruction of the Black Knight satellite
“The site Disclose.tv was the first to publish footage of the destruction of a certain space object. From the explanation it followed that they were received from hackers who hacked the secret Wikileaks server and obtained files with this secret video filmed by the CIA and the Pentagon. Filmed by participants in a secret operation to destroy a mysterious satellite known as the Black Knight Satellite. Ufologists believe that about 13 thousand years ago it was placed in Earth’s orbit by aliens to keep an eye on the development of our civilization.
On orders from the Illuminati, the Black Knight was allegedly shot down by a missile fired from a secret aircraft.
SecureTeam10 - a ufology channel on YouTube distributed a video of the destruction of the "Black Knight" and reported that the CIA and the Pentagon were only carrying out orders to shoot down the satellite. Representatives of the secret Masonic lodge Illuminati, which actually rules the world, gave the order for its destruction. It includes influential people from various Anglo-Saxon countries.
Media Conclusion: The Black Knight was destroyed on March 16 or 17, 2017. Evidence of this is a video from the Wikileaks server: a damaged object burns in the atmosphere and falls apart into small pieces. Why did the Illuminati shoot him down?
“Black Knight”, why are you circling above the Earth...
Ufologists and even some more traditional scientists call a “black knight” a space object that is (or has already been) in Earth’s orbit at an altitude of about 2 thousand kilometers and rotates in the “wrong” direction. All spacecraft launched by people fly in the direction of the Earth's rotation, and he flies in the opposite direction.
From the myths about the “Black Knight” it follows that Nikola Tesla was the first to identify it back in 1899. He allegedly caught encrypted signals that came to Earth in pairs from somewhere outside and assumed that they were being sent by an alien probe. In the 30s of the last century, such signals began to be detected en masse, which strengthened suspicions of the existence of aliens and their probe.
Further, if you believe the myths, in 1958 the object first caught our eye. It was seen through a telescope by American amateur astronomer Steve Slayton, who saw it against the backdrop of the bright Moon. The object was rotating in the “wrong” direction. According to the calculations of an amateur astronomer, its size was about 10 meters, its flight altitude above the Earth was from 1 to 2 thousand kilometers. He reported his observations to the military. They connected radars, but apart from the satellites of the USSR and the USA that were available at that time, they did not find anything.
In 1998, the “Black Knight” was finally photographed. The photographs were taken by the Americans from the Endeavor shuttle during the STS-88 expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) under construction. Since then, images of the alien satellite obtained by astronauts have been considered the most reliable evidence of its existence. The astronauts took several photos of the “Black Knight” from different angles and they became the main evidence of the existence of the object.
The satellite most likely received the name “Black Knight” from the Soviet science fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev. In the early 70s of the last century, his trilogy “Phaetians” was published about the tragic death of the planet Phaeton, which was supposedly located between Mars and Jupiter, where there is now an asteroid belt. The writer in his book called the satellite “The Black Prince”. In the text that was translated into English, the name became Black Knight Satellite - "Black Knight". And it became attached to a mysterious space object, about which there were already numerous rumors. By the way, the name “Black Prince” is also in use now. It is obvious that it was Kazantsev who was involved in the assertion of ufologists that the object was allegedly already real and appeared in Earth orbit approximately 13 thousand years ago.
And yet, the myths that relate to the “Black Knight” did not arise out of nowhere.
Ufologists believe that the “Black Knight” came from the constellation Bootes.
On October 11, 1928, Dr. Karl Stoermer, while in Oslo, received signals from a Dutch radio station - a set of dots and dashes. For some reason, everyone came twice with a delay of 3 to 18 seconds. It was as if radio waves went into space and then returned, reflected from some object.
This experiment was repeated by the French, Germans, and Americans with the same results. They called the phenomenon LDE (from English - Long Delay Echo - long delay of radio echo) and recognized it as real. But there are no reasonable explanations.
The hypothesis appeared only in 1960, the idea was that an alien reconnaissance probe had arrived in the solar system. The device discovered intelligent life and sent a message to its own. And now it communicates itself to us, receiving our signals and, with some delay, sending them back.
The idea was developed by the English astronomer Duncan Lunan. Based on the sequence of signals and their delay time, he drew a diagram in which he recognized the constellation Bootes. But on the diagram it appeared not in its modern form, but as it looked 13 thousand years ago.
Did the Illuminati shoot down the “Black Prince” or not? It turned out just the other day - 03/21/17: they didn’t shoot down anything - it’s a hoax, a blatant fake.
The footage, which hoaxers present as evidence of the destruction of the Black Knight, shows the Japanese Hayabusa apparatus. It was launched in 2003 to the Itokawa asteroid, approached it, took soil samples and returned to Earth. On June 13, 2010, Hayabusa entered the dense layers of the atmosphere, where it burned down. But before burning out, the Japanese device dropped a capsule with samples of asteroid soil, which successfully landed in Australia.
On the website esoreiter.ru, the famous ufologist and virtual archaeologist George Graham, host of the Streetcap1 channel on YouTube, also does not agree that the legendary alien satellite “Black Knight” was shot down, which many media outlets “shouted” about.
In his opinion, it is too simple and almost unrealistic. Why for many thousands of years, even during the times of more developed civilizations than ours, this alien object was not subjected to any attacks, and now suddenly, it was either shot down, or it “accidentally” collided with our satellite?..
And as confirmation of the ufologist’s doubts, on the night of March 22, 2017, in a dream, he was “shown” a picture of some translucent object of a strange shape, like the “Black Knight,” following the ISS. The mysterious device followed the space station of earthlings for almost seven minutes, and at the same speed. Its translucency initially confused the researcher, which is why at first he didn’t even pay attention to the object, mistaking it for a flare on the camera lens.”
ANSWER:
"Black Knight" is an alien spaceship in Earth's orbit, left by the TC from the constellation Sirius. More than a million years ago, it was initially inhabited and served as an observation post for the space zone in the region of the solar system. The satellite's equipment is a biorobot created using the highest technologies with high artificial intelligence and a mind of a high level of development. It was used to monitor events in the region of the orbits of the planets Venus, Earth, Mars and Phaethon.
At that distant time, there was a period of space wars in the area of the orbits of these planets between representatives of the dark forces of the dracoid EC from the constellation Orion and dark forces from other constellations of our zone of the Galaxy, who fought for the right to conduct their experiments to populate the planets of the solar system with living and intelligent life. As a result of the fighting, victory went to the Dracoid race from the constellation Orion, which was allowed, as one of the parties to cosmic dualism, to create races on Earth based on its genetics. She was admitted by the Creator to the EC of the light forces of the Galactic Union and became the creator of a race of people called the Anglo-Saxons.
The “Black Knight” control program gave him the opportunity, based on his higher intelligence capabilities, to open portals for space flights from other star systems to the solar system. But he could not only open such portals, but also create them and regulate them in directions.
After the Star Wars in our solar system, it was not visited by its Creators and, on command, was transferred to standby mode for the further execution of its programs. He maintains constant contact with them, transmitting to them monitoring data about civilization on Earth and waiting in standby mode for control commands. The "Black Knight" has its own defense system against attack and the ability to telepathically view negative intentions in the memory of intelligent beings. It cannot be destroyed or entered into.
It was not for nothing that the famous ufologist and virtual archaeologist George Graham was shown a picture of the translucent satellite “Black Knight” following the International Space Station (ISS). Firstly, in order to show that no one shot it down and it is in orbit as always, and secondly, it is translucent because it can make its matter partially or completely invisible, i.e. in the form of mirror matter (article No. 91). Therefore, observing it is a rather rare case, because... it is found much less frequently in the visible frequency range and does this only to throw up another unsolved mystery to our science. For about a million years now, the “Black Knight” has been creating the necessary portals for members of the Galactic Union and their guests to fly to Earth...
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Another one of the fairy tales of the outgoing post-industrial world.Back in Soviet times, when I studied at my alma mater, there was talk among us students about the presence in low-Earth orbit of an Earth satellite called the “Black Prince,” whose identity was not established. Those. The country that carried out the launch is not known. However, the catalogs at that time did not contain information about an object with unusual orbital parameters that the “Black Prince” was rumored to possess, much less with that name. Teachers, when asked about this object, answered that all the talk about it was, as they say now, something like “urban legends.” Since, at least in the 20th century, some attention was paid to this object, I made an attempt to find some information about the “Black Prince” on the RuNet. There weren't very many of them. The material below is a compilation of what was found. I can’t say anything about S. Slayton’s observations, since there is no factual information. How close to the truth is the assumption about the connection between the effect of the appearance of reflected radio signals and the probable presence of an unidentified object in near-Earth orbit - there is also no evidence. The selection is presented in the form of a chronology of events and a list of references somehow associated with the “Black Prince.”
The first report about the “Black Prince” appeared in one of the American media in 1958. It reported that an amateur astronomer had discovered an unidentified object in the near outer space of the planet. His name was S. Slayton, he used a 20-inch telescope and made observations of the lunar disk, during which he managed to record a mysterious object.
Then the astronomer considered the object artificial, since its trajectory was in a straight line and it disappeared from sight when it reached the edge of the Moon's disk. Slayton was surprised by the speed with which the object moved - it was unthinkable! The astronomer explained the disappearance of the object by its black color, as it became invisible to the human eye against the background of the dark sky. Then Slayton made approximate calculations of the object’s orbital elements and was able to determine the next time when the Black Prince would again become observable.
His calculations were confirmed and he was again able to see the object through the telescope, after which he immediately made a statement to the media announcing his discovery.
The “Black Prince” moved along an elliptical trajectory, the flight altitude was about 2 thousand km on the surface of the Earth, and the object itself had a diameter of slightly more than 10 meters. After Slayton's statement, military representatives immediately requested data on the object's orbit and began their own research. After numerous attempts, they were unable to identify the “Black Prince,” a statement was sent to the media that amateur astronomer Slayton, apparently, recorded an ordinary meteorite that flew near the Moon.
But Slayton did not give up: convinced that he had seen a real object, he made another calculation, establishing the next moment when the object would pass across the lunar disk. Having invited representatives of the media, he began a new observation session of the object. All the journalists who were present at the session witnessed the reality of this object, and after that “The Black Prince” became news No. 1 in many world newspapers and magazines for a long time.
The mysterious object was first called the “Black Prince” by the Soviet science fiction writer A.P. Kazantsev, suggesting that it was an “unaccounted for” satellite that revolves around our planet. The writer believed that the object could be a satellite of an alien civilization, that is, an ordinary UFO. This version was taken quite seriously among scientists and enthusiasts from all over the world began to study the object. After conducting studies of the space around the Earth using artificial satellites, K. Stoermer was unable to confirm his assumption that this object is an electron torus.
In a 1960 article in Nature, astrophysicist Bracewell suggested that the object was an alien robotic probe in orbit to establish contact with human civilization. He explained his theory by the presence of delays in radio signals that had been recorded since the beginning of the 20th century - the scientist saw them as attempts by the probe to attract attention.
At the same time, US and USSR radar stations continued their attempts to detect this object, but they all ended in failure. And amateur astronomers continued to report more and more cases of observation of the “Black Prince”, and now it was recorded not only against the background of the Moon, but also the Sun. A new wave of interest in the mysterious object was revived 20 years later, during the testing of new ultra-sensitive equipment by Gorky radiophysicists.
During the period of setting up the equipment, they recorded some unknown object that had a temperature of over 200 degrees Celsius. At that time, they thought that this object was some kind of secret satellite. After continuing their observations, the Gorky team soon learned that the “Black Prince” was not detected by conventional radar means. They prepared a message for a symposium on extraterrestrial civilizations, which was to be held in December 1981.
However, the report was never included in the symposium program due to censorship considerations at the time. During the symposium, on the sidelines, a version was seriously discussed that the USSR military, with the help of an advanced locator, was still able to detect the “Black Prince”. In addition, at the symposium it was reported that a mysterious body near the Moon reflects radio signals from the Earth. Then a group of scientists who participated in the symposium and studied this object realized that we were talking about the “Black Prince”.
10 years later, US military specialist T. Erickson suggested that the surface of the “Black Prince” contains a special graphite-based coating and it is for this reason that it reflects radio waves. About a year after this, the US communications satellite was launched into an orbit similar to that of the “Black Prince” and after some time simply disappeared from the radar field of view. On the sidelines, they began to seriously discuss the possibility of a collision between this satellite and a mysterious object in space.
Since the middle of the last century, several attempts have been made to decipher messages from this possible alien satellite. For the first time, an astronomer from Scotland, D. Leunen, began deciphering it. Having located the signals in the coordinate system, he directed the signal numbers along the vertical axis, and the delay in seconds along the horizontal. The picture that the astronomer saw amazed him beyond belief - he saw the constellation Bootes in front of him.
But there was one more nuance - all the stars were slightly shifted in the image, this is the position they had 10,000 years ago. Among other things, the Epsilon star was clearly not in the place where it is now. According to Leunen, it was the displacement of the star that pointed to the place from which the “Black Prince” arrived. But all attempts to understand what the “Black Prince” is and where he really came from ended in failure...
This strange story began for me in deep childhood. I remember it like now - sitting in my room, reading A.P. Kazantsev’s novel “The Faetians.” In addition to other literary delights, the novel, in particular, contains one curious episode.
In high Earth orbit, cosmonauts (Soviet, of course! The novel itself was written in 1972, and of course, in “The Faetians” the fact of our primacy in space was emphasized more than once) are exploring a certain mysterious celestial body - an object called “The Black Prince” (“ Emergency").
After external familiarization, the astronaut enters the object and removes several artifacts of the correct geometric shape. As it later turns out, aliens... “An interesting plot device!” - I thought. However, the author’s idea here was minimal...
Something is circling the Earth...
Much later, already in modern, post-Soviet Russia, I learned that, most likely, the “Black Prince” actually existed!
So, what was known reliably (from unofficial sources)?
In 1955, astronomers in Earth orbit recorded a strange object, with a maximum diameter of approximately 10 meters, ovoid (egg-shaped), coated presumably with graphite - that is, almost completely black. The object was clearly visible either against the background of the Moon, or when it covered the stars... Since the ovoid (it was called the “Black Prince”) was noticed two years before the launch of the first artificial satellite, a logical assumption immediately arose about its alien origin... According to calculations, the object was orbiting at an altitude of 26,000 to 80,000 kilometers.
But the most interesting thing is that the “Prince” was flying against the rotation of the Earth! (Usually all launch vehicles take off in the direction of rotation. This gives a good increase in speed - for example, launching from the equator - more than 450 meters per second.) And since the “Black Prince” flew in such an unfavorable orbit, this meant that it was launched with the most powerful a rocket for which 450 meters per second is a trifle and a trifle...
Or that he arrived from OUTSIDE. From distant, outer space...
A date with a secret
On November 9, 1967, the United States launched a spacecraft with three astronauts on board. The names of the crew members are still unknown. Let's call them, say, 1, 2 and 3. The ship changed its orbit twice before it entered the approach trajectory. On November 12, the ship hovered, leveling orbital speeds, 55 meters from the Black Prince. The “state of emergency” was completely black, and the volume of the orbital “aristocrat” was approximately 1820 cubic meters. Naturally, there could be no question of delivering the entire artifact to Earth. Too big...
Astronauts 2 and 3 went into outer space and, using the jetpacks of their spacesuits, slowly circled the Black Prince. No filming was carried out to avoid radio interception by the USSR or any other country. The astronauts took photographs and films using special devices. The “state of emergency” did not have engines or windows (or maybe they couldn’t find them), but upon closer inspection there was a hatch covered with an impenetrable shell, like a turtle’s...
Somehow they managed to open it... Astronaut 2 carefully got inside... True, what he saw there is not known for certain. Several small objects and... a mummy were delivered to the American ship. All this was successfully returned to Earth. Apparently, the “Black Prince” was not only quickly abandoned by the astronauts, but also mined (with a small atomic charge)…
Because in 1970, this object was blown up in orbit so that no one else (in those years - only Soviet cosmonauts) would be on board the “Black Prince”... The age of the “space” mummy was determined by radiological methods - approximately 10,000 years. The artifacts studied in laboratories on Earth were very similar to the products of the masters of Ancient Egypt, but made at a higher technological level... What was the “Black Prince”? The tomb of the great pharaoh, launched into a very high orbit thousands of years ago? Then the absence of portholes is understandable. But what is the hatch for? It is clear that first it was necessary to place the mummy inside, but why was the entrance opening not walled up later? Was it supposed to be a visit to the heavenly grave? I wonder - by whom?
“Emergency” - just a modern fairy tale?
Quite likely... But let's try to figure out WHAT was possible in this whole story. So, on November 9, 1967, the automatic spacecraft Apollo 4 (“A-4”) was launched in the United States. This was the testing of a device intended for a flight to the Moon, at a distance of up to 400,000 km from the Earth. It turns out that “A-4” could easily “visit” the “Black Prince”. And the crew... apparently could also be on board, however, for the sake of secrecy, the astronauts would have to fly in complete silence (not among themselves, of course, but without radio communication with the Earth).
Difficult, but also feasible, especially since a special radio code could be used in dialogues with the Earth. Apollo actively increased the altitude of its orbit and performed maneuvers. The Americans have already used jet engines during spacewalks before. One more nuance - it turns out that “A-4” became the first ship of the new series (Apollo type), on which astronauts flew - a full crew - three people. And immediately with an unusual task: to catch up with something unknown in space and explore it is unclear how... Boldly? Undoubtedly.
But here’s a stubborn fact: on December 21, 1968, the United States, in order to overtake the USSR, launched the Apollo 8 spacecraft to fly around the Moon; according to the official version, only the second ship of the “lunar” series with a crew! In addition to small orientation and maneuvering engines, with a single propulsion engine (the power of which allows the ship to return to Earth) engine! If the engine had failed, the three astronauts would have remained forever in orbit of the Moon or lost in the depths of the Universe... But, if such an adventurous expedition was realized, does it mean that a manned flight on Apollo 4 was also possible? Therefore, the “Black Prince” could exist? Another mystery of space and astronautics...
Let's expose! Is an alien satellite watching us? October 29th, 2016
Dozens of satellites fly around our planet, launched for all kinds of research and scientific purposes. However, it is argued that among them there is one that is not claimed by any state. And in general, there is a suspicion that it was not made on Earth.
In 1958, American amateur astronomer Steve Slayton, owner of a 20-inch telescope, while observing the Moon, noticed a certain object against its background. The celestial body quickly crossed the lunar disk and disappeared. Slayton concluded that the object was black in color and therefore not visible against the dark sky. The astronomer made calculations and tried to determine when the object would again appear against the background of the Moon.
At the calculated time, the object appeared at the point determined by Slayton. After observing the body, Steve determined its diameter (about 10 meters) and flight altitude (1-2 thousand km above the Earth). The too high speed and strange trajectory pushed him to the conclusion about the artificial origin of the object, which he stated to the press.
In 1958, only two countries launched satellites: the USSR and the USA. However, rushing to announce to the world each of their new achievements in the space race, neither the USSR nor the USA recognized the discovered celestial body as their own. The US military asked Slayton for orbital characteristics and soon announced that not a single radar station had found the satellite.
The offended amateur astronomer invited reporters to the telescope and they observed with their own eyes a satellite that military astrophysicists with all their equipment could not find. The press mocked the military. Amateur astronomer puts NASA to shame!
The satellite becomes the "Black Prince"
The secrets of the satellite multiplied. The military said that Slayton most likely observed a meteorite. All rockets are launched as the planet rotates to overcome gravity. And the object discovered by Slayton rotates in the opposite direction. Therefore, it cannot be an artificial satellite launched from Earth. And then for the first time the assumption was made that the satellite could be made not on Earth.
In 1974, the Soviet science fiction writer A. Kazantsev, in his novel “Phaetians,” described the alien satellite “Black Prince” orbiting the Earth. The novel has been translated into several languages. The name of the satellite immediately stuck to the celestial object. That's how he got his name.
Finding of Gorky radiophysicists
20 years later, Gorky radio physicists tested the ultra-sensitive equipment they had created, which made it possible to determine the temperature of celestial bodies. During testing, an object with a temperature of over 200 degrees Celsius was discovered. It was the “Black Prince,” who now had one more mystery.
In 1991, American scientist Tom Erickson tried to explain the invisibility of the Black Prince to radar systems. According to his version, the body is covered with a layer of graphite that absorbs radio waves. It is not yet possible to confirm or refute this assumption. The invisibility of the “Black Prince” remains a mystery.
A resident of Jacksonville, Florida recently photographed a mysterious black object in the sky, which she mistook for a strangely shaped kite. But when other smaller objects began to fly away from it, the American realized that she had managed to film a UFO, and one that was very interesting both in form and content.
And so it turned out, since Internet ufologists easily determined that the photographed UFO was exactly like the extraterrestrial satellite “Black Knight”, which was recorded in Earth orbit more than half a century ago. On that day, many Americans saw him over Florida, they all claim that as soon as other small objects separated from the UFO, he soon simply disappeared, and did not fly away, but instantly disappeared from sight.
As noted by ufologist Tyler Glockner, the Florida UFO looks like the “Black Knight” in photographs from 1998, but it is not clear why it approached the Earth, and what kind of landing party it sent to our planet?
"Black Prince" found
The latest confirmation was discovered in 1998, when the space shuttle Endeavor made its first flight, STS-88, to the space station. The astronauts on board took many pictures of the strange object, which could be freely seen on the NASA website. But soon, all the photographs disappeared. The pictures appeared again a little later, on new pages with a description that these objects are space debris. The photos are of good quality and it is easy to see that the object is some kind of spacecraft. Since then, we know everything there is to know about The Black Prince. We know where he came from on his mission as a space ambassador, appearance. And all this is attested to by numerous observers who took part in space programs.
However, ufologists definitely claim that the “Black Knight” has been spinning in the orbit of our planet for approximately thirteen thousand years, perhaps it is even an earthly satellite, just launched into orbit by representatives of a civilization that preceded humanity. There is also such a version - this is a fragment of a spaceship of unknown origin. By the way, in the late eighties, the Americans launched a communications satellite into orbit very close to the orbit of the “Black Knight,” but the “American” soon disappeared from the radar, either having encountered a mysterious UFO, or having disappeared for some other reason.
The reality, as always, turns out to be much more prosaic and not at all interesting. Let's remember once again the flight of the STS-88 ship Endavor (EVA mission) and the stunning photographs of the "Black Prince"? There are many inaccuracies in this part of the story. First of all, the space shuttle is always in near-equatorial orbit, just like the International Space Station. An object moving in a polar orbit has a speed of tens of thousands of kilometers per hour. Too fast to be noticed and incredibly fast to get the few high quality photographs that now appear as the main evidence.
They say that he is above us right now in the blackness of space, beyond the glow of the Earth. It slowly circles in the darkness in a special, constantly adjusted orbit. The earth spinning beneath him is completely unaware of his unauthorized guest. This is the Black Knight satellite - a mysterious object of unknown (possibly alien) origin. They say that it is above us right now, as it has been for the last 13 thousand years.
This photograph was taken during Space Shuttle Endeavor's STS-88 mission to the International Space Station on December 11, 1998.
Guest from the constellation Bootes
Like many stories about strange phenomena, this legend of the “Black Knight” began. He is said to have picked up a repeating radio signal in 1899 that he believed was coming from outer space, and announced it publicly at a conference. In the 1920s, radio amateurs were able to pick up the same signal. Further, scientists in Oslo, Norway, experimenting with shortwave transmissions in space in 1928, began to receive "long delay echo" (LDE), a poorly understood type of echo in the radio wave range that returns after a time of 1 to 40 seconds or more. after the radio broadcast. An obvious explanation emerged in 1954, when several newspapers published a US Air Force statement reporting two satellites found in Earth orbit at a time when no country had the capability to launch them. It so happened that the existence of the “Black Knight” was attested to by various sources and confirmed by the US Air Force.By 1960, both the United States and the Soviet Union already had satellites in orbit around the Earth. But on February 11, 1960, many newspapers published alarming news that someone else had something in orbit. Radar screens developed by the US Navy to detect spy satellites have revealed something. It was described as a dark, tumbling object. And it did not belong to either the Americans or the Soviets.
The next day the newspapers published a little more information. The mysterious object's orbit was 79° to the equator, rather than the correct 90° polar orbit. The eccentricity of its orbit was also unusual, with an apogee of 1728 km and a perigee of only 216 km. The mysterious satellite completed a full revolution around the Earth in 104.5 minutes.
At the same time, the US Navy was tracking a nearly 20-foot-long protective casing left over from an old Discovery launch. Discoverer 8 was launched on November 20, 1959, as a rehearsal for human space flight, followed by return in a capsule with a parachute. The launch went according to plan, but problems arose with the separation of the 136-kilogram capsule. The capsule's casings separated normally, but the capsule itself drifted into an orbit close to that of the mysterious object and was eventually declared lost. The Navy tracked one of the casings as it rotated every 103 minutes at an angle of 80°, with an apogee of 950 km and a perigee of 187 km. Similar to the Black Knight's orbit, but not quite.
In 1963, astronaut Gordon Cooper reported seeing a greenish UFO during his 15th orbit aboard the Mercury-Atlas 9 spacecraft. This was witnessed by almost 100 people watching the radar screens of the NASA tracking station, which was located in Muchea, 60 km from the city of Perth (Australia). The official explanation that followed speaks of an electronic failure on board and Cooper's hallucinations caused by the high level of carbon dioxide in the air. The existence of the Black Knight seemed undeniable.
In 1973, Scottish explorer Duncan Lunan wanted to know for sure. He went back to the Norwegian scientists' data on the Long Delay Echo (LDE) phenomenon and analyzed it. Lunen discovered that the signal pointed in the direction of Epsilon Boötis, a double star in the constellation Boötes. Whatever the "Black Knight" was, it appears that he was broadcasting an invitation from the people of Epsilon Bootes, an invitation 12.6 thousand years old, according to Lunen's analysis.
The final piece of evidence came in 1998, when the space shuttle Endeavor made its maiden flight (mission STS-88) to the International Space Station. Astronauts aboard Endeavor took numerous photographs of the strange object, which are now publicly available on NASA's website. But soon all the photographs disappeared. They appeared again some time later on new pages with descriptions stating that the objects depicted on them were space debris. The photographs were of high quality, and they were unmistakably recognizable as some type of spacecraft. Since then, we know almost everything about the Black Knight. We know what he looks like, where he came from and when he came to us on his mission as an interstellar ambassador. And this has been attested to by so many reliable witnesses involved in the space programs.
Then why doesn't anyone know about the Black Knight, and why doesn't NASA acknowledge its existence?
What a good story. The idea of a 13,000-year-old alien moon orbiting the Earth is incredibly tempting. People often accuse me of debunking stories like this, but I see it completely differently. I just want to know more. I want to open the box wider and find out what's really going on. I'm not going to stop here and say, "This is weird." I want to know the answer to the mystery. For those of you who see this as a "debunking", I have to say that I really don't understand why the comprehensive study of history is seen as a negative process. I am interested in the process of learning, and it was very interesting to find out what “Black Knight” hides behind itself. Here's what I found.
True facts
It turns out that the story of “The Black Knight” is made up of unrelated parts. The phrase "Black Knight" sounds so generic that I couldn't even determine when the name first became part of history. It seems incredible, but the name could have come from any space power of the time, it is so common that it could be associated with any number of real-life projects. From 1958 to 1965, the UK launched 22 rockets as part of the Black Knight program, designed to test various landers. However, this "Black Knight" never launched anything into orbit; its second stage was released on the way down, rather than on the ascent, in order to subject the test lander to greater loads. Remove that name from the equation and the links in the chain fall apart. All the events associated with the mysterious satellite were well documented, but no one (at that time) mentioned such a name.Nikola Tesla actually received rhythmic radio signals in 1899, and believed that they were coming from space. Today we know that Tesla was right. The signals it picked up came from pulsars, giant sources of pulsating radio signals found in deep space that were only officially discovered in 1968. Since pulsars were unknown in Tesla's time, he made his best guess at what the signals might be: undeciphered messages of intelligent origin.
Norwegian scientists did receive a “long delay echo” (LDE), and the reason for its occurrence remains almost as much of a mystery today as it was then. Today we have five possible explanations, and almost all of them refer to strange effects in the Earth's ionosphere. The most popular theory states that radio signals are trapped between two layers of the ionosphere, and are repeatedly reflected and circle the Earth several times until they finally find an exit through the lower layer. These are five of about fifteen more more or less plausible explanations, none of which involve orbiting alien satellites. Although, if such an alien satellite were to record our radio signals and broadcast them back 8 seconds later, it could have the same effect as LDE.
When Duncan Lunen interpreted LDE data as signals from space in 1973, he had no thoughts about the Black Knight or any other strange polar satellite. Lunen suggested that the effect is associated with the Lagrange point L5. L 4 and L 5 are two points located along the orbit of the Moon. One of the points is 60° ahead of the Moon, the other is 60° behind the Moon, they are stable and here the gravimetric influence of the Earth and the Moon is capable of keeping the object in a constant orbit. Moreover, Lunen later abandoned his method, admitting that it was not only unscientific, but also contained gross errors. Therefore, despite the story that has become part of modern popular culture, there is not and never has been any connection between Epsilon Bootes and the mysterious satellite, or with the date “12,600 years ago.”
Newspaper reports of two satellites in orbit in 1954? A wild story, made up from thin air, to support the sale of a book about UFOs. The Air Force officer whose testimony was cited was just a guy who saw a UFO once, but never expressed the idea of unknown satellites orbiting the Earth. No connection to the supposed "Black Knight".
The most interesting part of the story occurred in 1960, when the Discovery satellites were launched. Air Force spokesman Dudley Sharp told the press that this new mysterious object was likely a second casing from Discovery 8, a duplicate of a known object they had already tracked. The sizes of the objects coincided, and they were found in approximately the same place. Very soon the information was confirmed. Even Time magazine wrote about this, but since mundane explanations are not as exciting as mysterious objects, the message ended up on the very last page of the news.
There is something else interesting about the Discoverer program. In 1992, a CIA program called Corona was declassified, and it was discovered that the Discovery vehicles were not going to launch guys into space at all, but were in fact carrying Corona spy satellites. The reason for using a polar orbit was that this way the craft could fly over every part of the Earth and be able to photograph everything, unlike conventional orbits that only cover certain latitude ranges. In those days there was no such thing as transmitting digital images to Earth; you had to use film cameras. The film had to be taken back to Earth for development and study. To do this, the camera from the Corona KH-1 apparatus in the capsule left orbit and parachuted into the atmosphere, where it was intercepted by a JC-130 search and rescue aircraft.
Thus, although the entire Discovery program was only a screen, the information about the launches and their results presented in newspapers at that time was in fact true, which was later confirmed after the secrecy was lifted. The Corona camera aboard Discovery 8 was indeed lost, exactly as the newspapers reported in 1960. Both casings and their unusual orbit have been reported.
So what did Gordon Cooper see from Mercury-Atlas 9 that was confirmed by all those radar operators? According to Cooper himself (who died in 2004), nothing at all. And there is no mistake here; Gordon Cooper has reported UFO sightings more than once during his career as a pilot. He adamantly claimed that while serving in Germany, he saw a flotilla of UFOs fly overhead, although no one else reported it. But Cooper was no less adamant when he declared that the UFO near Mercury-Atlas 9 - his alleged sighting of the greenish "Black Knight" in 1963 - was completely fabricated by pseudo-ufologists. He posted all the notes, including his own originals, as proof that nothing of the kind was reported during the flight. This story is mentioned in almost every UFO book that talks about the “Black Knight,” but there is no such entry in NASA documents, radar operator reports, or any other sources of the time. This is pure invention of modern writers.
Which leaves us with Endeavor Flight STS-88 and their astounding images of a certain spacecraft. We know that during one of the astronauts' spacewalks, a thermally protective ceramic tile flew off the shuttle - one side was silver, the other black. The incident was photographed many times. The tiles were wrinkled and took on a weird shape. Without knowing the origin of the object, the average person would have no idea what it could be. But unfortunately for the legend and fortunately for the astronauts, it was still not an alien satellite.
I had a lot of fun learning this story. I learned many historical and several astronomical facts that I had never heard of before. I'm glad I took on this challenge because if I had simply accepted the story that there was an alien satellite orbiting the Earth, I would have made the mistake of not learning anything new. Worse, I would be making a logical fallacy by forcing myself to accept a whole system of incorrect assumptions in order to “squeeze” an impossible alien satellite into my reality. Neither legends nor revelations carry anything useful in themselves: only tracking the true facts rewards.