The Black Knight Satellite: A 13,000-Year-Old Watcher, or a Story Stitched from Spare Parts?

NASA photograph STS088-724-66 from Space Shuttle mission STS-88, December 1998: a small dark angular object — identified by NASA as a lost thermal blanket — drifting above Earth's cloud-covered limb

About 4 min readThe legend says an alien satellite has watched Earth for 13,000 years. The record says something else: a radio pioneer who never mentioned a satellite, a real radio mystery, a retracted star map, and a lost thermal blanket photographed from the Space Shuttle.

NASA’s UAP Report, 2023: No Evidence of Aliens — and a Blunt Verdict on the Data

NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

About 4 min readOn 14 September 2023, NASA’s independent study team reported that it found no evidence UAP have an extraterrestrial origin — and that the data are too poor to draw conclusions about many sightings. Its real message was a roadmap for doing the science properly.