The Black Knight satellite, a peculiar object that has allegedly been orbiting Earth for thousands of years, has sparked great speculation, debate, and fascination among conspiracy theorists and astronomers alike for well over a century since it was first detected.
Is it a classified United States military project, a derelict Cold War-era Russian spy satellite lost in the vastness of space, or an extraterrestrial probe monitoring Earth?
The Black Knight Emerges
When Russian Cosmonaut, Sergei Krikalev, who was a part of the six-member crew of the NASA STS-88 Endeavour mission looked out of the shuttle window to take photographs of an unknown object following NASA’s protocol for UFO sightings, little could he have imagined the incredible excitement and controversy his actions would cause back on Earth.
Although Krikalev was not the first to capture the strange-looking object on camera, his effort arguably produced the clearest pictures of the purported Black Knight Satellite in a hundred years.
Intriguingly, those sensational photographs were published by NASA on their official website.
Ufologists relished the opportunity to scrutinize the pictures, declaring they proved the Black Knight Satellite was no figment of imagination; and, that as they had contended all along, it was an object of alien origin, sent to surveil Earth from afar for undetermined purposes.
The Dark Satellite or Black Knight Satellite grabbed the attention of scientists in the early days of space exploration during the 1950’s, when puzzling signals were detected in near-polar orbit of the Earth.
It was a time of heightened tensions between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. Inexplicable occurrences, whose sequence appears to have been orchestrated by some unseen hand, happened on the back of a series of events involving the United States.
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UFO hunters were not the only ones to believe that the strange objects detected in outer space were other-worldly; men of science jumped on the bandwagon too.
In 1960, Ronald Bracewell, Professor of Electrical Engineering of the Space, Telecommunications, and Radioscience Laboratory at Stanford University, published an article in the authoritative scientific journal, Nature, in which he advanced the possibility of the presence of an alien probe that was trying to establish contact with Earth.
As proof of his theory, Bracewell cited the phenomenon of delays in radio signals observed since the beginning of the 20th century.
The Black Knight Name
According to researchers, there are two possible origins of the name Black Knight.The first one maintains that it was derived from a 1972 science fiction novel.
The Destruction of Faena by Soviet author Alexander Kazantsev. In the story a civilization from the planet Phaeton, that was destroyed in a nuclear disaster, had launched the Black Prince satellite into Earth’s orbit to communicate with us.
When Kazantsev’s novel was translated into English, the phrase “Black Prince” was changed to Black Knight. It is believed that this fictitious satellite lent its name to the space object discovered by Slayton.
The second option is connected to United Kingdom’s research ballistic missile, called the Black Knight, that was launched at Woomera, Australia, on September 7, 1958. Whatever the origin of the mysterious satellite’s moniker, it has stuck like glue!
Black Knight Chronology
To gain a proper understanding of the subject, it is important to study key instances of signals received from the Black Knight satellite in chronological order.
In 1899, Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla erected a large tower at his laboratory in Colorado Springs to study atmospheric electricity and wireless power. While conducting experiments, he intercepted repeating signals from outer space.
At first, Tesla speculated the transmission had originated from a planet communicating with Earth, noting in a February 9th, 1901 Collier’s Weekly article titled ‘Talking with the Planets’:
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The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another … it dawned upon me that I had observed something possibly of incalculable consequences to mankind.
I felt as though I were present at the birth of a new knowledge or the revelation of a great truth.
Upon further study, Tesla believed the radio waves emanated from a satellite orbiting Earth. Until, finally, he formed the opinion that the signals came from an intelligent alien civilization based on Mars.
In a February 25th, 1923, article titled ‘A Giant Eye to See Round the World’ that appeared in the Albany Telegram, the genius scientist wrote: I believe the Martians used numbers for communication because numbers are universal.
Radio waves, a type of electromagnetic radiation, have the lowest frequencies and longest wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum, and can be larger than our planet.
Given that the very first source of non-terrestrial radio waves were detected from the constellation of Sagittarius in the center of the Milky Way galaxy by an American physicist and radio engineer, Karl Jansky, only in April 1933, the scientific community has explained away Tesla’s signals as nothing more than radio wave pulses from a pulsar.
But this interpretation is hotly contested by Ufologists because Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio wave–based wireless telegraph system in 1896, also detected the same signals.
But what convinced Tesla that the transmission had come from Mars? By the time H. G. Wells published The War of the Worlds, the Red Planet had been observed through telescopes for nearly 300 years.
Beginning with Galileo Galilei’s studies of the phases of Mars in 1610; Giovanni Cassini’s identification of the planet’s polar ice caps in 1666; and Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli’s observations of geological features which he called canali or channels in 1877.
The mistranslation of Schiaparelli’s canali into English as canals led to the popular belief that Mars was inhabited by an extraterrestrial race capable of engineering and agriculture.
American mathematician and astronomer Percival Lowell was tremendously inspired by the research on Mars that had preceded him. From his observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, he examined the Red Planet extensively for 15 years.
These included studies conducted during the 1907 opposition, or the period when it was closer to Earth.
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A prolific writer, Lowell postulated in his books Mars in 1895, Mars and its Canals in 1906, and Mars as the Abode of Life in 1908, that an advanced alien race indigenous to the planet had built canals to convey water from the polar caps to irrigate the remaining arable land in their arid, dying landscape.
As he confidently informed the editors of the journal Nature in London: After the melting of the south polar cap had got well under way, canals began to make their appearance about it.
The planet is at present the abode of intelligent constructive life [and] I may say in this connection that the theory of such life upon Mars was… deduced from the outcome of observation [and] my observations since have fully confirmed it.
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Lowell accompanied his hypothesis with illustrations of imaginary geological features on Mars, just as Schiaparelli had done earlier.
But Lowell’s grand pronouncements about Martian canals and their alleged-creators had been discredited by the time of his death in 1916.
The Times trod delicately in a valedictory editorial, stating, The present judgment of the scientific world is that he was too largely governed in his researches by a vivid imagination.
Nevertheless, the determined efforts of Percival Lowell to unravel the mysteries of the Red Planet, and the way his scientific writings played a role in shaping Tesla’s thoughts, cannot be overlooked.
Part two of this article can be read here.
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