The Black Knight Satellite

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Lot of fast moving objects on my side of the world,and there not satellites,but they look like one.

[Opalserpent Profile]

Is the Black Knight back?

http://whofortedblog.com/2013/05/14/bla ... esdropper/

Full article in the above link.

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[Harbin Profile]

I have to admit that I know very little about this story, I've seen it referenced - I think Spikey brought it up a while back, and I certainly hadn't seen this video (Thanks abovetopvids), or even the photos, but I'll be looking into it a bit more.

Monday, Mar. 07, 1960
Time Magazine

Three weeks ago, headlines announced that the U.S. had detected a mysterious "dark" satellite wheeling overhead on a regular orbit. There was nervous speculation that it might be a surveillance satellite launched by the Russians, and it brought the uneasy sensation that the U.S. did not know what was going on over its own head. But last week the Department of Defense proudly announced that the satellite had been identified. It was a space derelict, the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray. The dark satellite was the first object to demonstrate the effectiveness of the U.S.'s new watch on space. And the three-week time lag in identification was proof that the system still lacks full coordination and that some bugs still have to be ironed out.

First Sighting. The most important component of the space watch went into operation about six months ago with the construction of "Dark Fence," a kind of radar trip wire stretching across the width of the U.S. Designed by the Naval Research Laboratory to keep track of satellites whose radios are silent, it is a notable improvement on other radars, which have difficulty finding a small satellite unless they know where to look. Big, 50-kw. transmitters were established at Gila River, near Phoenix, Ariz, and Jordan Lake, Ala., spraying radio waves upward in the shape of open fans. Some 250 miles on either side, receiving stations pick up signals that bounce off any object passing through the fans. By a kind of triangulation, the operators can make rough estimates of the object's speed, distance and course.

On Jan. 31 Dark Fence detected two passes of what seemed to be an unknown space object. After detecting several passes during the following days, Captain W. E. Berg, commanding officer of Dark Fence, decided that something was circling overhead on a roughly polar orbit. He raced to the Pentagon and in person reported the menacing stranger to Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke. Within minutes the news was communicated to President Eisenhower and marked top secret.

In the confusion, there was a delay before anyone took the step necessary to positively identify the strange satellite: informing the Air Force's newly established surveillance center in Bedford, Mass. It is the surveillance center's job to take all observations on satellites from all friendly observing centers, both optical and electronic, feed them into computers to produce figures that will identify each satellite, describe its orbit and predict its behavior. Says one top official, explaining the cold facts of the space age: "The only way of knowing that a new satellite has appeared is by keeping track of the old ones."

It took two weeks for Dark Fence's scientists to check back through their taped observations, and to discover that the mysterious satellite had first showed up on Aug. 15. The Air Force surveillance center also checked its records to provide a list of everything else that was circling in the sky, and its computers worked out a detailed description of the new object's behavior. The evidence from both Air Force and Navy pointed to Discoverer V, fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif, on Aug. 13.

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[Toxic32 Profile]

I have to admit that I know very little about this story, I've seen it referenced - I think Spikey brought it up a while back, and I certainly hadn't seen this video (Thanks abovetopvids), or even the photos, but I'll be looking into it a bit more.

Monday, Mar. 07, 1960
Time Magazine

Three weeks ago, headlines announced that the U.S. had detected a mysterious "dark" satellite wheeling overhead on a regular orbit. There was nervous speculation that it might be a surveillance satellite launched by the Russians, and it brought the uneasy sensation that the U.S. did not know what was going on over its own head. But last week the Department of Defense proudly announced that the satellite had been identified. It was a space derelict, the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray. The dark satellite was the first object to demonstrate the effectiveness of the U.S.'s new watch on space. And the three-week time lag in identification was proof that the system still lacks full coordination and that some bugs still have to be ironed out.

First Sighting. The most important component of the space watch went into operation about six months ago with the construction of "Dark Fence," a kind of radar trip wire stretching across the width of the U.S. Designed by the Naval Research Laboratory to keep track of satellites whose radios are silent, it is a notable improvement on other radars, which have difficulty finding a small satellite unless they know where to look. Big, 50-kw. transmitters were established at Gila River, near Phoenix, Ariz, and Jordan Lake, Ala., spraying radio waves upward in the shape of open fans. Some 250 miles on either side, receiving stations pick up signals that bounce off any object passing through the fans. By a kind of triangulation, the operators can make rough estimates of the object's speed, distance and course.

On Jan. 31 Dark Fence detected two passes of what seemed to be an unknown space object. After detecting several passes during the following days, Captain W. E. Berg, commanding officer of Dark Fence, decided that something was circling overhead on a roughly polar orbit. He raced to the Pentagon and in person reported the menacing stranger to Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke. Within minutes the news was communicated to President Eisenhower and marked top secret.

In the confusion, there was a delay before anyone took the step necessary to positively identify the strange satellite: informing the Air Force's newly established surveillance center in Bedford, Mass. It is the surveillance center's job to take all observations on satellites from all friendly observing centers, both optical and electronic, feed them into computers to produce figures that will identify each satellite, describe its orbit and predict its behavior. Says one top official, explaining the cold facts of the space age: "The only way of knowing that a new satellite has appeared is by keeping track of the old ones."

It took two weeks for Dark Fence's scientists to check back through their taped observations, and to discover that the mysterious satellite had first showed up on Aug. 15. The Air Force surveillance center also checked its records to provide a list of everything else that was circling in the sky, and its computers worked out a detailed description of the new object's behavior. The evidence from both Air Force and Navy pointed to Discoverer V, fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif, on Aug. 13.

I just had to do a bit of digging for this one I'v always been intrigued by this object. I'v posted a list of all launches made during the 1960s No mention of Discoverer V.

The evidence from both Air Force and Navy pointed to Discoverer V, fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif, on Aug. 13.

Look for your self.

http://www.zarya.info/Diaries/Launches/Launches.php?year=1960


I haven't got the time to workout what sort of orbit this satellite tried to achieve, but I'm willing to bet it wouldn't be a polar orbit. So how did it get into a polar orbit. And it's not listed as a derelict satellite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Derelict_satellites_orbiting_Earth

This is what I think the satellite looked like. Nothing like the black night.



There is a list of projected orbits for this type of spy satellite in the ZARYA link. Might be worth digging a bit more...Over to you WILL. Your brilliant at digging out the facts. Just fucking tell us what it is??

[WillEase666 Profile]

NASA describes this as debris.
In spite of claims by UFO blogger and other websites, these images are still available..

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/p ... 417802.tsv
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/p ... 417802.tsv
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/p ... 417802.tsv
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/p ... 417802.tsv
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/p ... 417802.tsv

It sure as hell isn't the black knight satellite. By the way, which is more likely...
A) NASA would lie about a UFO and post the pictures anyway or
B) NASA knew what it was and took several pictures and the OP has an over active imagination?

I'll be debunking the video that's on this page...later.

[WillEase666 Profile]

Is the Black Knight back?

http://whofortedblog.com/2013/05/14/bla ... esdropper/

Full article in the above link.

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Couldn't you just trust me when I say that isn't a ufo, but is in fact a reflection of the solar array?

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Is the Black Knight back?

http://whofortedblog.com/2013/05/14/bla ... esdropper/

Full article in the above link.

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Couldn't you just trust me when I say that isn't a ufo, but is in fact a reflection of the solar array?

Oh I see, can you post some pics so I can see what your saying or explain the
scenario to me willease man? It was to good to be true I suppose.
Still it's not impossible that it exists.

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LOL

"The satellite," Fat said. "VALIS. Vast Active Living Intel-ligence System. It fires information down to them?"
"It does more than that," Kevin said. "Under certain circumstances it controls them. It can override them when it wants to."
"And they're trying to shoot it down?" I said. "With that missile?"
Kevin said, "The early Christians-the real ones-can make you do anything they want you to do. And see-or not see -anything. That's what I get out of the picture."
"But they're dead," I said. "The picture was set in the present."
"They're dead," Kevin said, "if you believe time is real. Didn't you see the time dysfunctions?"

Arthur C Clarke "Valis"

UGH this is going to bug me - PHILIP K. DICK authored Valis

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Oh I see, can you post some pics so I can see what your saying or explain the
scenario to me willease man? It was to good to be true I suppose.
Still it's not impossible that it exists.

First let me point out that the dark knight was a signal and a bleep on a radar screen not an actual sighting.
Now about the video...you'll notice that it is a video of a picture. The bright triangle shaped thing on the bottom is the solar array being hit by direct sunlight. This is being reflected off the camera lens creating the
so called UFO. If the creator of the video had used actual video footage, you would see the anomaly fade as the array becomes less bright. It also moves in the same direction as the array.

There was a thread featuring this video that has photos and links to the actual video, but I don't recall the thread title. I'll go through all my posts to find it if you REALLY need to see it or you can just take my word for it.

[Opalserpent Profile]

Oh I see, can you post some pics so I can see what your saying or explain the
scenario to me willease man? It was to good to be true I suppose.
Still it's not impossible that it exists.

First let me point out that the dark knight was a signal and a bleep on a radar screen not an actual sighting.
Now about the video...you'll notice that it is a video of a picture. The bright triangle shaped thing on the bottom is the solar array being hit by direct sunlight. This is being reflected off the camera lens creating the
so called UFO. If the creator of the video had used actual video footage, you would see the anomaly fade as the array becomes less bright. It also moves in the same direction as the array.

There was a thread featuring this video that has photos and links to the actual video, but I don't recall the thread title. I'll go through all my posts to find it if you REALLY need to see it or you can just take my word for it.

Alright you convinced me about 75 percent, the link with the video would have been good.