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Originally posted by Phage
Sure. Why not talk about it again.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
The Black Knight satellite is a fine tale which, as such tales do, has grown in the telling. The 1953 "sighting" is a bit iffy and it's sort of hard to say that it had anything to do with the 1960 detection.
www.time.com...
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 claim that there were no polar orbiting satellites, along with some other claims, just isn't true. That was the whole idea behind the Discoverer satellites.
Discoverer 2 was a cylindrical satellite designed to gather spacecraft engineering data and to attempt ejection of an instrument package from orbit for recovery on Earth. The spacecraft was launched into a 239 km x 346 km polar orbit by a Thor-Agena A booster. The spacecraft was three-axis stabilized and was commanded from Earth. After 17 orbits, on 14 April 1959, a reentry vehicle was ejected.
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov...
Originally posted by sealing
There is a discrepancy .
It doesn't look like true polar orbits were possible in 1960.
10 satellites were launched between 1960 and 1965 but only the last
2 were made polar orbits.
www.oso.noaa.gov...
From April 1, 1960 to July 2, 1965 ten TIROS satellites were launched. The satellites ensured continuity of data throughout the early years. The first four TIROS satellites had an inclination of 48 degrees and the next four had an inclination of 58 degrees, thus they were not polar-orbiting. The last two TIROS were the first polar-orbiting meteorological satellites.
Originally posted by Jordan River
Americans made it, lied that they didn't make it, caused panic, increased space technology.
Originally posted by blindlyzack
I'd love to know the truth, but i fear the magic will be lost.
originally posted by: FireMoon
reply to post by JimOberg
There again, why would you let Phage explain the STS 88 rather than yourself? Surely you knew, or was there just a hint of guilt nagging at you about that one, cos you know as does anyone else, who knows the first thing about protocols in space are very much against "chucking any more litter than is absolutely necessary from space ships due to the extreme hazards it can cause".
There are some great pics of the Black Star satellite, and it absolutely cannot be explained as any known or previous terrestrial technology.
originally posted by: PlanetXisHERE
a reply to: Rubicant13
There are some great pics of the Black Star satellite, and it absolutely cannot be explained as any known or previous terrestrial technology.
Obviously not of this world.
The possibility that it exists will be proportional to the effort covering it up.
So were it really just some terrestrial satellite or space plane it would be ignored for the most part.
However, if it were real, and it is, a huge effort would be spent by the traitors to mankind trying to convince the populace that is was just a satellite or space plane.
originally posted by: JimOberg
And I suppose they also made it invisible to thousands of amateur astronomers and skywatchers around the world, for decades? How did they do that? And then, why did they stop doing it for all subsequent satellites?
Think your theory through to consequences, please.
If this were real I would also expect this thread to be monitored closely and debunking attempts made quickly, and attempts made by possible disinfo agents to have the thread put in the hoax bin.
originally posted by: PlanetXisHERE
a reply to: Rubicant13
There are some great pics of the Black Star satellite, and it absolutely cannot be explained as any known or previous terrestrial technology.
Obviously not of this world.
The possibility that it exists will be proportional to the effort covering it up.
So were it really just some terrestrial satellite or space plane it would be ignored for the most part.
However, if it were real, and it is, a huge effort would be spent by the traitors to mankind trying to convince the populace that is was just a satellite or space plane.