Episode 109: The Black Knight Satellite — Ancient Alien Probe or Space Debris?Somewhere in orbit above the Earth, according to a conspiracy theory that has persisted for over one hundred and twenty years, an alien spacecraft has been watching us for thirteen thousand years. The evidence: Tesla's strange radio signals in 1899, a Norwegian engineer's delayed echoes in 1927, a scientist's later-retracted analysis connecting them to an alien probe, and a set of photographs taken during a 1998 Space Shuttle mission showing an unusual angular object against the black of space. Tonight we examine each piece of evidence — and what it actually shows.This episode explores:* Nikola Tesla's 1899 Colorado Springs radio signals — and why scientists now believe they were natural phenomena, not alien transmissions* The Long Delayed Echoes of 1927 — a real and puzzling radio phenomenon with known physical explanations* Duncan Lunan's 1973 analysis connecting the echoes to a thirteen-thousand-year-old alien probe — and his own subsequent retraction of the conclusions as unscientific* The STS-88 photographs from the 1998 Space Shuttle mission — identified by NASA and independent space debris experts as a thermal blanket lost during a spacewalk* Why the specific debris identified as the Black Knight re-entered the atmosphere in the late 1990s and no longer exists* Why the theory persists despite every specific element having a documented conventional explanationFor believers, the photographs are too unusual to represent ordinary space debris, and the accumulation of connected events across a century points to something the official record refuses to examine. For space debris experts, the thermal blanket identification is specific, credible, and provided by people who were present at the mission.What is certain: something drifted away from a spacecraft in 1998. It was photographed. The image is strange enough that a legend built itself around it — and the legend outlasted the object itself.Keywords: Black Knight Satellite conspiracy, alien satellite orbiting Earth, Black Knight Satellite truth, STS-88 photograph explained, NASA Black Knight cover-up, Tesla alien signal 1899, Duncan Lunan alien probe, 13000 year old satellite, Black Knight space debris truth, ancient alien spacecraft orbit

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