History
According to some UFO conspiracists the block knight is an artificial satelight of extraterrestrial origin that has orbited earth for approximately 13,000 years the satelight story is most likely a coflation of several disconnacted stories about various objects and their interpretaions all of them well documated independently and none using the term black knight upon their first publication.
The origin of the black knight legend is often retrospectively dated black to natural extrterrestial repeating sources supposedly heard during the 1899 radio experiments of Nikola Tasla and long dalayed echoes first heard by amateun radio operator jorgen hals is aslo, norway in podcast attributes tesla's 1899 radio signals to pulsars, which were not identified untill 1968.
In 1954, UFO researcher donald kehoe told newspapers that the united states air force had reported tha two satellites orbiting earth had been detected. At that time, no country had the technology to launch a satellite. Skeptics have noted that keyhoe had promoting a ufo book at the time.
A british rocket called the black knight rocket was used in conjuction with the blue streak missile program between 1958 and 1965 to test re-entry vehicles. A black knight satellite launaher project announced in 1964 was considered a priority by the ministry of aviation. The program never put anything into orbit, and it is unrelated to the black knight satellite legend.
In february 1960, time reported that the U.S.Navy had detected a dark object thought to be a soviet spy satellite in orbit. A follow up article confirmed that the object was the remains of an air force discoverer satellite that had gone astray.
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 euidence that this happened. Neither NASA's misson transcripts nor cooper's personal copies show any such report being made during the orbit.
In 1973 scottish author duncan lunan analyzed the long delayed radio echoes recived by hals and others and speculated that they could possibly originate from a 13,000 year old alien probe located in an orbit around the earth's moon. He suggested from a planet located in the solar system of star epsilon bootis. Lunan later retracted his conclusions, saying that he had made "outright errors" and that his methods had been "unscientific".
Space debris photographed in 1998 during the STS-88 mission has been widely claimed to be the black knight satellite. Space journalist james oberg considers it probable that the photographs are of a thermal blanket that was confirmed as lost during EVA by jerry l ross and james h newman.
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