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The Black Knight!

This is it, from STS-88. How do you lose a blanket on a Space Shuttle mission? Was one of them sleeping on the roof?

Snoring can be a real problem in a cramped space vehicle. Still, this way you get to sleep under the stars.

I like the way some sites claim "Rumors are that it was Nikola Tesla the first man to “intercept” a signal from the black knight satellite in 1899 after building a high-voltage radio device in Colorado Springs." It would be easier to say what Tesla didn't get up to in 1899.

Obligatory photo of Tesla :

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That was in the days before he grew a 'tache.
 
For anyone that doesn't know, you can search for:
stuff_you_want site:forteantimes.com
the site:forteantimes.com bit of the search restricts google search to this website. So you could search for "the black knight site:forteantimes.com" and this thread is result number one. The "site:" bit works for any site that doesn't block google from searching it.
 
For anyone that doesn't know, you can search for:
stuff_you_want site:forteantimes.com
the site:forteantimes.com bit of the search restricts google search to this website. So you could search for "the black knight site:forteantimes.com" and this thread is result number one. The "site:" bit works for any site that doesn't block google from searching it.
Putting 'Black Knight Forteantimes.com' into DuckDuckGo (without the ' ') works similarly. :)
 
I was also wondering about the claim of 13000 years. The calculations regarding orbits would not help in this case.
 
OK: In a thematic combination even I have to agree is frankly weird, Soft Drinks manufacturer PEPSI have based their new ad campaign around the Black Night Satellite.


Published on 18 Nov 2015
Global short film with footage shot from outer space with the UrtheCast camera on the International Space Station.

“Black Knight Decoded” follows the journey of a father (David Oyelowo) and daughter (Layla Crawford) on their quest to decode the radio signals transmitted from the Black Knight satellite. With the help of their friend Ahna (Freida Pinto), they seek to unite the world in anticipation of the Black Knight’s (voiced by Usher) revelation on Earth.

Relying on support from communities around the world, the trio are in a race against time to decode the signals and respond before the government attempts to shut them down.

A Pepsi Production in association with Levity Entertainment Group the film includes footage shot from outer space using the UrtheCast camera mounted on the International Space Station

An award winning cast including David Oyelowo, Freida Pinto, Usher and thousands of fans from 11 countries around the world that were brought together to participate as part of the Pepsi Challenge.

Directed by: Jabbar Raisani
Producers: Norman Aladjem, John Bravakis, James Frey, John DeMarco
Written by: James Frey
Executive Producers: Brad Jakeman, Ellen Healy, Allison Polly

Follow the conversation online #BlackKnightDecoded
Ok, so it might just be an excuse to use footage from this Urthecast Camera, but why hang it on this odd bit of Space folklore? Just seems a weird tone to take? Am I alone in this?

Mr P
 
It is kinda unusual, using an apparently debunked Fortean premise.
It's not just an excuse to use space footage, it's an excuse to bring back that idea (from old Pepsi and Coke adverts) of people on beaches round the world, making pictures with coloured cloths and balloons.
 
'Leaked footage' of mythical 'Black Knight' UFO hounding ISS emerges
AN ALLEGED leaked video of the so-called 'Black Knight UFO' tailing the International Space Station (ISS) has emerged online despite the existence of the mythical 'alien satellite' being successfully debunked just months ago.

The myth of an ancient alien satellite orbiting Earth had been developing for many years, but it took off in 1998 after NASA released images of a thermal blanket being dropped by astronauts working on a space shuttle.

The images were later hijacked by hoaxers who claimed they showed a mysterious alien satellite and the story snowballed.

Last summer Express.co.uk revealed how an amateur sleuth had debunked the myth and proved the 'satellite' was a blanket during an 11-minute long YouTube novice video.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird...ythical-Black-Knight-UFO-hounding-ISS-emerges
 
Damn, me too! Sounded like it was gonna be an ace story!
 
This newly published article provides an overview of the Black Knight story / legend / mystery / whatever ...
The Black Knight Satellite: A Hodgepodge of Alien Conspiracy Theories

Sometimes the introduction of a news report will stop you in your tracks, forcing you to reread in fear you didn't quite grasp its point the first time. That was certainly the case when Mail Online published a story on Mar. 21, 2017: "An alien satellite set up more than 12,000 years ago to spy on humans has been shot down by elite soldiers from the illuminati, UFO hunters claim."

And with that, the conspiracy surrounding the so-called "Black Knight" satellite appeared to be very much alive. ...

It's been 120 years since conspiracists believed the existence of the Black Knight was recorded. Those who subscribe to the theory lay claim of an extraterrestrial spacecraft in near-polar orbit of the Earth, although they draw upon evidence so disparate that it's not entirely clear why people link them. What they amount to, however, is an intriguing set of ingredients that, taken together, cause people to scream loud about potential cover-ups by NASA and the government. In that sense, it is a legend that refuses to go away. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.livescience.com/what-is-the-black-knight.html
 
C&P from yours truly on another site.

Is there an object of unknown origin orbiting the earth?

I asked an air force veteran about it and he indirectly confirmed its' existence, but said that it was classified and he couldn't tell me any more about it.

It first came to public notice after Time Magazine published a brief article on it in 1960, but then the air force clamped down on it.

I first heard of it through a correspondent of mine and his speculation was that it was a satellite left by an ancient civilization, possibly ante-antediluvian. Others have guessed that it was put there by ET's.

This was from several years back
 
For the sake of completeness, here's the article from Time Magazine.
Monday, Mar. 07, 1960
Time Magazine

Three weeks ago, headlines announced that the U.S. had detected a mysterious "dark" satellite wheeling overhead on a regular orbit. There was nervous speculation that it might be a surveillance satellite launched by the Russians, and it brought the uneasy sensation that the U.S. did not know what was going on over its own head. But last week the Department of Defense proudly announced that the satellite had been identified. It was a space derelict, the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray. The dark satellite was the first object to demonstrate the effectiveness of the U.S.'s new watch on space. And the three-week time lag in identification was proof that the system still lacks full coordination and that some bugs still have to be ironed out.

First Sighting. The most important component of the space watch went into operation about six months ago with the construction of "Dark Fence," a kind of radar trip wire stretching across the width of the U.S. Designed by the Naval Research Laboratory to keep track of satellites whose radios are silent, it is a notable improvement on other radars, which have difficulty finding a small satellite unless they know where to look. Big, 50-kw. transmitters were established at Gila River, near Phoenix, Ariz, and Jordan Lake, Ala., spraying radio waves upward in the shape of open fans. Some 250 miles on either side, receiving stations pick up signals that bounce off any object passing through the fans. By a kind of triangulation, the operators can make rough estimates of the object's speed, distance and course.

On Jan. 31 Dark Fence detected two passes of what seemed to be an unknown space object. After detecting several passes during the following days, Captain W. E. Berg, commanding officer of Dark Fence, decided that something was circling overhead on a roughly polar orbit. He raced to the Pentagon and in person reported the menacing stranger to Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke. Within minutes the news was communicated to President Eisenhower and marked top secret.

In the confusion, there was a delay before anyone took the step necessary to positively identify the strange satellite: informing the Air Force's newly established surveillance center in Bedford, Mass. It is the surveillance center's job to take all observations on satellites from all friendly observing centers, both optical and electronic, feed them into computers to produce figures that will identify each satellite, describe its orbit and predict its behavior. Says one top official, explaining the cold facts of the space age: "The only way of knowing that a new satellite has appeared is by keeping track of the old ones."

It took two weeks for Dark Fence's scientists to check back through their taped observations, and to discover that the mysterious satellite had first showed up on Aug. 15. The Air Force surveillance center also checked its records to provide a list of everything else that was circling in the sky, and its computers worked out a detailed description of the new object's behavior. The evidence from both Air Force and Navy pointed to Discoverer V, fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif, on Aug. 13.
The Discoverer V satellite was responsible for this detection; nothing extraterrestrial or ancient here.
 
These clippings seem to have been the 'headlines three weeks ago' mentioned in the Times article.
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Even these articles mention the Discoverer program as a possible source.
 
A Chaddesden barman has opened up publicly about his UFO experience - describing the time he believes he witnessed a phenomenon dubbed “The Black Knight”.

Zayell Gillespie was with two friends when he saw a dark prism shape emerge from the night sky and move towards them.


Highlight of article :

The Black Knight is a supposed astrological phenomenon that was first written about by the famous scientist Nikolai Tesla.

The scientist drew pictures, which are available to view online, which show a black prism with two bright stars near the top, similar to how Mr Gillespie described.


https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-news/chaddesden-barman-tells-seeing-ufo-3990367
 
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