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originally posted by: Rob48
a reply to: wmd_2008
Good pic demonstration.
The blanket pics are a total red herring and I am not sure why they ever got labelled "Black Knight".
The old satellite observations are the real story, and a more interesting one. I haven't yet ploughed through the old threads to find what the explanation was, if any.
originally posted by: VoidHawk
originally posted by: igor_ats
I'm just wondering why amateur astronomers have never seen this.
No orbit data, nothing.
It seems they did!
The object was sighted and studied by many of the astronomers across the country. This is what Robert L. Johnson, director of the Adler Planetarium had to say about the object,
“ ‘THE OBJECT,’ JUDSON SAID, ‘DOESN’T EVEN HAVE THE DECENCY TO MAINTAIN A REGULAR SCHEDULE,LIKE ANY OTHER HEAVENLY OR MAN MADE OBJECT HE’S EVER SEEN.’ ‘WE DON’T KNOW WHEN TO WATCH FOR IT.’ he says.” It appears some nights, and some nights it doesn’t.
It was then photographed by the Grumman Aircraft Corporation.
originally posted by: igor_ats
originally posted by: VoidHawk
originally posted by: igor_ats
I'm just wondering why amateur astronomers have never seen this.
No orbit data, nothing.
It seems they did!
The object was sighted and studied by many of the astronomers across the country. This is what Robert L. Johnson, director of the Adler Planetarium had to say about the object,
“ ‘THE OBJECT,’ JUDSON SAID, ‘DOESN’T EVEN HAVE THE DECENCY TO MAINTAIN A REGULAR SCHEDULE,LIKE ANY OTHER HEAVENLY OR MAN MADE OBJECT HE’S EVER SEEN.’ ‘WE DON’T KNOW WHEN TO WATCH FOR IT.’ he says.” It appears some nights, and some nights it doesn’t.
It was then photographed by the Grumman Aircraft Corporation.
I'm talking about anything recent - say the last two decades. Where is the orbit data?
Your quote is in context of the 1960's at best. I just find it strange that's the only amateur astronomer references.
originally posted by: LABTECH767
a reply to: VoidHawk
Or took what they wanted and destroyed the rest, I agree and if anything for the shuttle or other craft launched by NASA to have been close enough to make a close fly by of the object then it is obvious that such was there intent, the craft was possibly boarded but what they found we will never know, if it is as old as I think though it would have been degraded by time, thermal variance and radiation so if they got anything really useful is another matter.
To prevent the same technology they may have retrieved and reverse engineered from falling into Competing hand's, be that Soviet or Chinese etc they would have blown it up, forcing a reentry would be tricky and not ideal as it could still come down intact so if they could not retrieve it they would have made certain it was reduced to small pieces and it makes you wonder how many test firings of anti satellite missiles were really aimed at removing ancient tech so that it remained in there hand's alone, I doubt the black knight was the only relic up there.
originally posted by: igor_ats
Yes, it wouldn't surprise me if they "captured" it since the 1960's.
No sightings, no orbit data, no nothing. No one is concerned about it's disappearance, just repeating the same old 1940's information.
It would explain that amateur astronomers haven't seen it or anything in recent memory.
Attach some rockets to it and they could have sent it anywhere they chose. The moon? One of the other moons? Maybe even Mars!
So whats your best guess (assuming its real), was it ancient tech from earth? or alien?
I like the idea that it was an alien observation device. Just sitting there waiting for the day when the earthlings become advanced enough to reach it. When they do it sends word back to its owners.
Its interesting that people report that it would disappear! Where did it go? Maybe it was watching several planets that have life on them!
In February 1960 there was a further report that the US Navy had detected a dark, tumbling object in an orbit inclined at 79° from the equator with an orbital period of 104.5 minutes. Its orbit was also highly eccentric with an apogee of 1,728 km (1,074 mi) and a perigee of only 216 km (134 mi) At the time the Navy was tracking a fragment of casing from the Discoverer VIII satellite launch which had a very similar orbit. The dark object was later confirmed to be another part of this casing that had been presumed lost.
In February 1960 there was a further report that the US Navy had detected a dark, tumbling object in an orbit inclined at 79° from the equator with an orbital period of 104.5 minutes. Its orbit was also highly eccentric with an apogee of 1,728 km (1,074 mi) and a perigee of only 216 km (134 mi) At the time the Navy was tracking a fragment of casing from the Discoverer VIII satellite launch which had a very similar orbit. The dark object was later confirmed to be another part of this casing that had been presumed lost.