Curious Object Has Been in Earth Orbit Over 50 Years-No One Knows What It Is
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In the late 19th century, Nikola Tesla built and operated a high-voltage receiver in Colorado Springs. In 1899, he started to pickup strange signals which he speculated were “intelligently controlled signals” that originated “from another world.” While his advanced equipment allowed him to be the first to make this type of statement, he certainly wouldn’t be the last. Starting in the 1930’s, astronomers began reporting similar findings. In 1953, Dr. Lincoln La Paz of the University of New Mexico stated that he believed that he had found the source when he sighted a satellite in space.
The following year, newspapers, including the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the San Francisco Examiner, reported an announcement from the US Air Force that two satellites were found to be orbiting the Earth. At that time, man did not yet possess the ability to launch objects in Earth’s orbit.
That changed in 1957 when the USSR launched Sputnik 1. The Russians reported that the mystery satellite, which by that time had become known as the Black Knight, was “shadowing” Sputnik 1. Later that year, Dr. Luis Corralos of the Communications Ministry in Venezuela photographed it while taking pictures of Sputnik II as it passed over Caracas.
By the beginning of the next decade, both the US and the USSR had their own satellites in orbit. But on February 11, 1960, newspapers everywhere reported something shocking: that somebody else also had something in orbit. A radar screen had detected a foreign object that wasn’t claimed by the Americans or the Soviets. It was described as a dark, tumbling object.
3 years later, astronaut Gordon Cooper reported seeing a greenish UFO while on board Mercury 9. This time, it was also witnessed on the radar screens by approximately 100 people at NASA’s Muchea Tracking Station near Perth, Australia. Later, an official explanation was supplied that stated that Cooper’s electronics malfunctioned, and he breathed in too much CO2 which gave him hallucinations.
The Black Knight had generated plenty of interest by this time, and in 1973, Scottish researcher Duncan Lunan went back to earlier data collected by Norwegian scientists. This data had originally been gathered in 1928, when the scientists received echoes several seconds after making a transmission. Lunan’s deeper analysis of the data discovered that it was a star chart pointing to Epsilon Boötis, a double star in the constellation of Boötes. His belief was that the Black Knight was transmitting a 12,600 years old invitation from someone in Epsilon Boötis.
As recently as 1998, the Black Knight was back in the news when the space shuttleEndeavor made its first flight to the International Space Station. Astronauts aboard took many photographs of a strange object, which were widely available to the public on the NASA website. But soon all of the photographs had disappeared. They reappeared some time later with various descriptions explaining them all away as pieces of debris or space junk.
Both the US and the Russian governments have acknowledged at least the possibility of the existence of the Black Knight. While we still don’t know what the object is, it’s up there right now, tumbling through space just above the atmosphere.
A 2014 video feed from the ISS shows what many believe is the Black Knight:
Edited from article originally published by Skeptoid.com.
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There it is. What is it? I’m awfully curious.
And then there’s that charlatan Tesla. He also claimed he could split the earth’s crust, that he had an electromagnetic earthquake machine and other fanciful frauds. People love to believe and so much so they refuse to verify. They make up things for him to have invented that he didn’t and forget that many or most of his claims were fraudulent.
OK, so he picked up strange signals. Ask any ham or short wave enthusiast what odd noises come from auroras and meteors and atmospheric electrical discharges. Early experiments with telephone equipment turned up howls and screeches, long before radio was known about. Martians in the wires?
The idea that I don’t understand A so therefore B is a wonderful lesson in fallacy. It’s the classical argument from ignorance and in this case coupled with the False Dilemma. I hear something I don’t understand or I see something I don’t believe — therefore it’s an alien spaceship or voices from Mars. it’s also a false dilemma. There are far more than two answers to the question of strange noises, and in this sad case those noises are well understood.
As has been said since the middle ages, the proposition loses probability in proportion to the number of assumptions and inventions it requires.
You have to admit it’s an interesting article nonetheless 🙂
What this has in common with so many similar frauds is the notion that the government is covering up things the government has no reason to cover up and the means and motivation to reveal.
Doctored, blurry pictures and dubious accounts that can’t be verified and the truth of which would require a huge, air tight conspiracy that would hold for 50 years? Seriously, there are thousands of credible sounding accounts of government cover ups of alien nonsense that all depend on things got from dubious sources and dead people and often attribute sightings to people who deny them.
With all this alien technology lying about, don’t we have to ask ourselves why no one has ever used what would be the most valuable thing in existence?