Black Knight satellite conspiracy theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_satellite_conspiracy_theory

https://www.businesstoday.in/visualstories/news/black-knight-satellite-conspiracy-is-alien-spacecraft-really-orbiting-earth-113599-15-03-2024

https://www.space.com/what-is-the-black-knight.html

Though some believe that an alien craft called the Black Knight Satellite is orbiting Earth, NASA says that any photographic "proof" merely depicts space junk.

In 2017, conspiracy theorists claimed the Illuminati had shot down a UFO. They called the object the “Black Knight Satellite” and said it had been orbiting Earth for more than 13,000 years until leaders of the secret society took action.

It was a wild claim, but it was only the latest in a long series of claims that make up the Black Knight Satellite conspiracy theory, which goes back decades.

The premise maintains that an extraterrestrial spacecraft has been orbiting Earth since the Stone Age. Some believe that NASA and various governments have actively covered this up. Meanwhile, experts are adamant that nothing but scientific misunderstandings of space debris and radio signals are to blame.

Believers assert that evidence for the existence of the Black Knight Satellite dates back at least as far as the 19th century, when Nikola Tesla received a series of bizarre radio transmissions at his Colorado Springs laboratory. And it goes right up to a mysterious 1998 NASA photograph that captured a strange object in orbit.

NASA states that this object is merely space junk, but some theorists aren’t convinced. This is the true story of the rumored Black Knight Satellite.

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