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Black Knight satellite conspiracy theory

The Black Knight satellite conspiracy theory claims that that there is a spacecraft in near-polar orbit of the Earth that is of extraterrestrial origin, and that NASA is engaged in a cover-up regarding its existence and origin.

This conspiracy theory combines several unrelated stories into one narrative.

A 1998 NASA photo is believed by some to show the Black Knight satellite, but NASA has stated that this is likely space debris, specifically a thermal blanket lost during an EVA mission.

According to some UFO enthusiasts, the Black Knight is an alien satellite which has orbited Earth for approximately 13,000 years; however, the non-existent object is most likely a conflation of several disconnected stories, all of them well documented independently and none using the term "Black Knight" upon their first publication.

According to senior education support officer Martina Redpath of Armagh Planetarium in Northern Ireland:

Black Knight is a jumble of completely unrelated stories; reports of unusual science observations, authors promoting fringe ideas, classified spy satellites and people over-interpreting photos. These ingredients have been chopped up, stirred together and stewed on the internet to one rambling and inconsistent dollop of myth.

The origin of the Black Knight legend is often "retrospectively dated" back to natural extraterrestrial repeating sources heard during the 1899 radio experiments of Nikola Tesla

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