Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Last Podcast on the Left. This week, the boys are launching into the void to discover the truth behind the Black Knight Satellite. In 1998, an image of an unknown object was captured by the ISS floating just outside of Earth's atmosphere... Was it just space junk? Or could it have been something... more?! Captain Henry T. Zebrowski cracks open the possible "cover-up" "blanketed" in mystery and takes our crew where no man has gone before, retracing the history behind the mysterious object, probing the many theories behind it's explanation, and diving deep into it's bizarre connection to author Phillip K Dick. For Live Shows, Merch, and More Visit: www.LastPodcastOnTheLeft.comKevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Last Podcast on the Left ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.
Chapter 1: Who is leading the discussion on the Black Knight Satellite?
That's my family. That's my family lineage. And you can't come at me today because today I'm in charge.
That he is. Welcome to the last podcast on the left, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Marcus Parks, and today I'm handing the reins over. Once again, I've handed him over to Ed Larson in the past, and he's knocked it out of the fucking park. But today I'm handing the reins over to Mr. Henry Zebrowski.
My goal is infield home run. My goal is one of those bunts that confuses everyone.
That people keep missing the first baseman, and then they miss the second baseman, and he just keeps going.
That's the idea, and that the man somehow has been allowed by other teammates to score. Well, I got a feeling you're going to be called out at home. Nice.
I always am.
And, of course, we have the skeptical Ed Larson here.
Hey, how you doing? I am ready to learn whatever Henry throws at me. But I am a little upset that you feel like you couldn't hold your concentration during a fart. I will.
I'm not mean. Farts don't faze me. Oh, no. I'm talking about Duncan Cameron. I'm talking about turtlenecked Long Island psychic. I think that man doesn't even know he farts. No. Yeah. Another secret admission. All it is is just his fuel. That's his psychic fuel coming out the back end. So today I wanted to cover something short and sweet for my very first episode. No, man, I'm short and sour.
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Chapter 2: What is the Black Knight Satellite and why is it mysterious?
Right.
We just did that the last two weeks in a row with the Montauk project. And I decided to add a little bit more confusion to everybody's life. That's great. By covering a subject that I was just personally interested in and wanted to know the backdrop of. And it's amazing how much you can learn and also not learn in a short period of time. Okay.
Now, today's episode, we are covering the Black Knight Satellite, which is, you know, it's huge. The Martin Lawrence vehicle? Yes.
Yes.
It is the Black Knight Satellite. It's actually, it's Black Knight 2. It's featuring Dave Matthews from the Dave Matthews band playing a white woman. Yeah. The song Satellite. Go ahead. Satellite. Satellite's a great song to get finger banged to if you haven't done it yet. Right? Like night swimming.
Satellite, night swimming, both great songs to get finger banged to by some guy you'll never know again.
See, I thought you were saying, go night swimming, get finger banged to Satellite. I don't know what night swimming is.
Yeah, I don't either. Night swimming. It's quiet now.
That's not a finger bang song. That's a finger massage song.
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Chapter 3: What is the history behind sightings of unknown satellites in Earth's orbit?
Independence Day is only three years old.
Aliens are everywhere. People are primed to believe in the late 90s, back when we still had, what do you call it, hope.
Yeah, and faith. And this is because it seemed interesting. This is one of those things. Why UFOs were the gasoline behind the Internet? Because people were like all the OG boards. Most of them were ufology boards. So when 1998, when this hit the Internet, it was like deepened in the conspiracy realm. And there were several other pictures of it.
If you believe people that have been who've made the Black Knight satellite their entire lives. Now, the reason why it was so interesting was because it corroborated with these old ideas of people seeing things in the sky and getting messages from things in the sky over a long time ago. Now, the first thing was seen in 1953.
Dr. Lincoln LaPaz of the University of New Mexico discovered an unknown satellite orbiting Earth. LaPaz reported a discovery to the U.S. Department of Defense, who contacted Dr. Clyde Tombaugh. Now, it's important to note, now, Dr. Clyde Tombaugh, big guy in space industry, he's Pluto's agent. He discovered Pluto. Okay.
So Pluto obviously had put on a, I believe it was a bringer show, and did show, like, he kind of went there, because that's big, you guys don't know, in the space entertainment industry, what a planet has to do is, first of all, be willing to do nudity. Exactly. And then you have to put on, obviously, dramatic monologue, comedic monologue, dance song. Yeah. And she did all of it. Pluto's a woman.
Oh, okay.
Yep. Pluto's a fucking woman. First of all, fuck you. Yep. Yeah. Pluto's a lady. And that's Dr. Clyde right there. Dr. Clyde had the wherewithal. When he saw Pluto's huge tits, he knew Pluto was going to make it real far in the solar system.
But Pluto was a planet, and then they took its rights away as a planet and then gave them back. Exactly. It's re-a-planet again. No, it's not. Oh, it's not. It is not a planet. It's not a planet. Absolutely not. So it's my very energetic mother gave us nine. Yep. Exactly. What?
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Chapter 4: What role did radio signals and the 1950s space race play in Black Knight Satellite lore?
Our concepts of what an alien would use as technology. So we assume we use radio, they'll use radio. So they start getting deep into using radio technology to kind of mine the space to see if they bounce something back. Which is, again, it's one of those things that it does sort of happen. It does happen. There's this thing called LDEs.
In 1927, a Norwegian engineer by the name of Jorgen Hals was doing some radio experiments and discovered signal echoes that appeared sometime between 1 and 40 seconds after an initial radio transmission was broadcast. So we're shooting shit out into space. Yeah, LDs, it's what?
Long distance, like long delay. It's called long delayed radio echoes. Long delayed radio echoes, yeah.
These are, they're called long delayed radio echoes. And when Hale first identified them, they have been happening on and off ever since. So we sent out a radio signal. And essentially like about a minute or even up to 40 seconds before, like whatever, it it bounces back in this weird way. We don't know what it's bouncing off of.
They all were saying that it was bouncing off of hidden things in the sky. Could it bounce off the moon? Yes. It probably is bouncing off the moon. But we don't really know. But this is where some people believe the Black Knight satellite
comes in yeah we're still kind of unsure exactly what it is some people think it's like a like a geodesic or like it might be something we are bouncing off something on the earth there might be something about the magnetic field we don't understand super thick part of the atmosphere you know how that is yeah
Is it still there?
Yes. And we've gotten up close to it?
Have we ever tried to land on it or dock it? Well, now we're kind of, no. Oh, no. The Black Knight satellite? No. We can't find it. It's already, basically, it's already gone. If it was up there, it's gone. Okay. And so now it's like, or it's moved out of orbit. It's like, you know, that's kind of, depending on what you believe about what it was.
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Chapter 5: How do long delayed radio echoes relate to the Black Knight Satellite theory?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Hubble's looking out at the rest of the space trying to find shit out there.
Oh, and the Hubble's in space.
Yeah. Hubble's in space. Yeah. Okay. You can't turn the Hubble around and have it look at Earth.
No, dude. You can't fucking turn that shit around, dude, because honestly, you just look like shit. You ever taken a selfie on the toilet? What about the observatory?
Like the big fucking... There's giant telescopes all over Earth. We haven't been able to spot this thing once.
It's quite like... Think about how big space is and how small this object might be. We don't know. 15 tons. Yes. We could spot our own satellites. Because we know where they are.
Yeah.
It's very big. Very big. Things move very fast up there. February 1960, the U.S. government identified on radar a dark, tumbling object in Earth's orbit, and the Navy experienced what they said was another long, delayed radio echo. The Defense Department dismissed the object as space debris.
Time magazine published an article about the unknown object, speculating that it was the often-rumored Black Knight satellite. So it got a lot of coverage. This whole story was pretty legit. It was speculated that the object was a Soviet spy satellite. Soviets are like, ain't us. Of course. Why would they say it was them? But it was revealed in a follow-up Times article that the U.S.
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Chapter 6: What connection does Nikola Tesla have to the Black Knight Satellite story?
Duncan Loonan's star charts display the position of... display the position of Epsilon Boötis from 13,000 years ago, which places the arrival of the Black Knight satellite at exactly... 13,000 years ago, and suggests the aliens of Epsilon Beatus are capable of traveling several times faster than the speed of light, and that's real fast!
Coincidentally, between 11,000 and 13,000 years ago was also when the lost civilization of Atlantis fell. Oh!
Antediluvian.
It's got to be real! You know how it is! You get in there, people are trying to dig it out! They made a nuclear bomb, they blew themselves up, had crystals for heads!
Where do they think Atlantis is? Uh, south.
Of us. Which is down. See, to Duncan Lunan and his friends, the placing of the Black Knight satellite in orbit made several kinds of sense. Several kinds of many different types of sense. For one, it would ensure the satellite would last for thousands, if not millions of years. Because in orbit, it would not be affected by weather and geological disturbances. There's nothing in space.
They can just hang out there. Except for all of our satellites. A lot of stuff. And two, by being in orbit, the only way it could be accessed was when humankind had advanced technologically and culturally enough to handle the possibility of alien life. Because it knew it couldn't protect ourselves from ourselves.
This seems to be a bit of a contradiction, though. What? Fuck you. How fucking dare you? Well, just come with me on this. I'm asking a question.
How do the ancient alien theorists, I guess, how do they balance that idea of aliens have been visiting us for millennia and giving us all this technology and so on and so forth with we have to wait until we're culturally advanced enough to accept the possibility of alien life? It's a very good question, Adam.
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Chapter 7: Who are the Watchers and what is their significance in alien and Earth history?
It's his stuff. Looks like this. That's just shot into his brain. Oh, okay, cool. All these blobs shot into his brain.
I love that.
We all do. That's all very cool. I wish it was real. I mean, it's art. That's cool. So Peaky Day, he came to all, well, you call these aliens, much how John Kill called them the Watchers, and many people have talked about the Watchers, he called them the Builders. He thought Valis was a benign entity and the protector that helped him in his remaining years.
And one day after the download, Peaky Day was singing along to the Beatles' Strawberry Fields Forever, and Valis changed the lyrics in his brain into a warning. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
Your son has an undiagnosed right inguinal hernia. The hydrocell has burst and it has descended into the squirrel sack. He requires immediate attention or will soon die.
That's the key.
Or will soon die.
And was that true? Yes. PKD rushed his son to the hospital. And it was true. Furthermore, this is one of those weird things that was true. You don't know whether or not, do we know more things in our unconscious than in our conscience?
Like, are there things that we can know without, like, without woo-wee-woo stuff, but can you maybe be noticing things about your son that you are not consciously processing? But somewhere back here you're processing, and then all of a sudden it's like a eureka moment when the unconscious touches the conscious. Who knows? Yeah. Or is it a robot from space or simply following your gut? Exactly.
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Chapter 8: How do quantum entanglement and psychic communication theories explain alien contact?
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That's right. Next show we're doing is going to be Toronto, but that's already sold out on May 3rd. It's already sold out. So make sure, if you can't go to that, we've got Atlanta in June, Salt Lake City. My first time doing a big outdoor show. I'm very excited for that. It's going to be interesting. That's going to be in July. We basically do one a month, except for in August we're doing two.
We're doing Durham and Charlotte. And then we're going to keep coming. We've got cities booked once a month for the whole rest of the year, twice a month.
We've got Oakland and we've got Portland coming up in December. So go to LastPodcastOnTheLeft.com to see which city near you that we're coming to.
Also, Invasive Species is going to be real soon, right? I'm going straight from Toronto right down to Florida. I'm going to do my second leg of this tour. It's going to be amazing. I got Naples on the 6th. With Henry, I'm going to be in Fort Lauderdale on the 7th. And then on the 8th, Henry and I are going to be in Orlando at the Funny Bone.
And then I'm doing that full weekend in Key West, which is going to be a fucking blast. I don't know if people go to Key West anymore. I fucking love that place. It could wash away at any moment. So this might be your last time to go. It's the only way. Yeah. And then make sure you come see us in May at Contact in the Desert, which is the last day of May and then the first two days of June.
That's going to be a fucking blast. It's like a goddamn cruise ship. I can't wait. We're all talking about it.
Oh, yeah. Then come to Crime Wave at Sea slash last. We got a lot going on, don't we?
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