We’ve got a fun one for you today, the Black Knight Satellite

The Black Knight satellite is, obviously, a satellite in near-polar orbit of the Earth, that is, that it passes the poles in its orbit, again how it sounds and this satellite is not of earthly origins

It is said that NASA is covering up it’s existence and origin 

There we have it in a nutshell so with that I think we can end the episode. Shortest one yet! 

J/k let’s jump into the lore, or the legend, or the theories.. Just pick whatever one you think sounds best… it’s a choose your own adventure, kind of

Pretty much every article I read said that there’s no rhyme or reason for where the Black Knight got its name however I did find only one source which did provide an potential explanation so I thought I would just throw it in here and see how its lands
The moniker for this supposed satellite came from the Middle Ages, at the time of the knights. The knight who wanted to hide his identity or simply did not have heraldic signs was called ‘Black.’ The Black Knight is a lone knight, a skilled and shrewd fighter. But most often, the nickname is negative, hence the comparison. The Black Knight is also lonely and has no identification marks. 
Not sure who true it is but I provide you some information and you do with it what you think is best

According to some people, whom I won’t call conspiracists, the Black Knight is an artificial satellite of E.T origin that has orbited Earth for approximately 13,000 years

Now as I liked to comment on these things, I do not know how anyone would ever be able to actually confirm this 

There are also several photographs of the purported Black Knight Satellite  which provide fuel to the fire that we will post to the socials, probably
When you look at these photos, I will be the first to admit this doesn’t really look anything like you would picture a satellite being
It looks like a very primitive, dark kind of oddly shaped object .. kind of rock like I would say based on my scientific deductions
The most famous image of all is probably one taken by NASA itself; the image of a silhouette of unidentified shape is said to be a photo of the Black Knight itself.
The photo in question is known as STS088-724-66 and was taken during the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station.
Now in regards to this photo in particular it was taken during the STS-88 mission claimed by some to show the Black Knight satellite is catalogued by NASA as a photo of space debris,The International Space Station was under construction, and NASA sent the first Space Shuttle mission to help with the build.
The shuttle had brought equipment along, including four thermal blanket covers meant to insulate the station’s trunnion pins. But one of these blankets came loose during a space walk and floated off.
There’s another when In August 2015, footage emerged from Jacksonville, FL showing a mysterious object hovering in the sky. It looked suspiciously like the object in the photo from the Endeavor, and some claim that it's the Black Knight satellite.



Now i’m going to take you through kind of a chronological series of events contributing to this legend that has been cultivated of the Black Knight 

It all starts with Nikola Tesla, where this legend most likely originates; 

In 1899 Tesla had been given $100,000 by Jacob Astor – who later died aboard the Titanic if you recognize the name – the money was to create a new lighting system, which Nikola naturally spent creating experiments at his Colorado Springs laboratory. During one of these experiments, he recorded a signal that he believed to be artificial in nature, and from an intelligent species not of this Earth.
I don’t know about all of you, Taylor, but as someone who does not have tons of disposable money I can’t even begin to be able to know where the feeling of “I must create a new lightning system and I do not care the cost!” comes from
Anyhow Tesla announces to the world that he had intercepted a message from aliens and he recounts to multiple newspapers that he had been conducting unrelated wireless power experiments in a purpose-built tower at his home in Colorado Springs. That’s when he stated that he had received radio signals which he interpreted as “the greeting of one planet to another,” according to a 1901 article he wrote in Collier’s Weekly.
"I felt as though I were present at the birth of a new knowledge or the revelation of a great truth," he wrote of the signal in 1901. "Even now, at times, I can vividly recall the incident, and see my apparatus as though it were actually before me. My first observations positively terrified me, as there was present in them something mysterious, not to say supernatural, and I was alone in my laboratory at night."
"It was some time afterward when the thought flashed upon my mind that the disturbances I had observed might be due to an intelligent control. Although I could not decipher their meaning, it was impossible for me to think of them as having been entirely accidental. The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another."
There is no evidence that Tesla ever mentioned the idea of a Black or Dark Knight satellite, nor that he ever intimated the concept of a spaceship orbiting Earth, let alone one with the purpose of intelligence gathering.
Tesla himself interpreted them as a series of numeric codes and believed them to come from “highly intelligent beings” on Mars.

Another Scientist, 1927, engineer Jørgen Hals also picked up a strange signal. Or, to be more precise, a normal signal, repeated in a strange manner.
"I repeatedly heard signals from the Dutch short-wave transmitter station PCJJ (Eindhoven)," he wrote to professor Carl Størmer at the University of Oslo.
"At the same time as I heard the telegraph-signals I also heard echoes. I heard the usual echo, which goes round the earth with an interval of about 1/7 second, as well as a weaker echo about 3 seconds after the principal signal had gone. When the principal signal was especially strong, I suppose that the amplitude for the last echo 3 seconds after lay between 1/10 and 1/20 of the principal signal in strength. From where this echo comes I cannot say for the present. I will only herewith confirm that I really heard this echo."
Audio here https://la3za.blogspot.com/2010/02/three-paths-from-japan-to-norway-along.html
Jørgen Hals may have made a scientific discovery in his observations, but not the one he thought. He might have been the first person to hear what are now known as Long Delayed Echoes (LDEs).

Then, in 1954, The New York Times published a claim by UFO researcher Donald Keyhoe that a Pentagon source had confirmed the existence of two “natural satellites” orbiting Earth. At that time, no country had the technology to launch a satellite. The Army Office Of Ordnance Research had enlisted a team of astronomers to search for near-Earth satellites, but the leaders of the project denied ever having discovered any.
Now let me get into these reports for you… These reports originally come from Dr Lincoln LaPaz and Clyde Tombaugh (who discovered Pluto) of the University of New Mexico In August 1954 and they’re astronomers among other things
And this actually gets super interesting here 
In 1952 Dr J Allen Hynek (from Project Blue Book) secretly conducted a survey of fellow astronomers on UFO sightings and attitudes while attending a astronomy convention
Tombaugh and 4 other astronomers including LaPaz told Hynek about their UFO sightings– maybe for another episode? But definitely not here I don’t think- unless you think we should, one is also involved in Roswell
LaPaz here 
Tombaugh here 
Anywayyy during this story Tombaugh also told Hynek that his telescopes  were at the Air Force’s disposal for taking photos of UFO’s if he was properly alerted
So this probably leads to what comes next which is the search for near-earth satellites first announced in late 1953 and sponsored by the army office of ordnance research
Another public statement was made on the search in March 1954, emphasising the rationale that such an orbiting object would serve as a natural space station. However, according to Donald Keyhoe, later director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), the real reason for the sudden search was because two near-Earth orbiting objects had been picked up on new long-range radar in the summer of 1953, according to his Pentagon source.
By May 1954, Keyhoe was making public statements that his sources told him the search had indeed been successful, and either one or two objects had been found.[37] However, the story did not break until August 23, 1954, when Aviation Week magazine stated that two satellites had been found only 400 and 600 miles out. They were termed "natural satellites" and implied that they had been recently captured, despite this being a virtual impossibility. The next day, the story was in many major newspapers. Dr. LaPaz was implicated in the discovery in addition to Tombaugh
The New York Times reported on August 29 that "a source close to the O. O. R. unit here described as 'quite accurate' the report in the magazine Aviation Week that two previously unobserved satellites had been spotted and identified by Dr. Lincoln LaPaz of the University of New Mexico as natural and not artificial objects. This source also said there was absolutely no connection between the reported satellites and flying saucer reports."[38] However, in the October 10 issue, LaPaz said the magazine article was "false in every particular, in so far as reference to me is concerned. LaPaz at first vehemently denied that he was involved in any way, and later denied that anything had been found
Both LaPaz and Tombaugh were to issue public denials that anything had been found. The October 1955 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine reported: "Professor Tombaugh is closemouthed about his results. He won't say whether or not any small natural satellites have been discovered. He does say, however, that newspaper reports of 18 months ago announcing the discovery of natural satellites at 400 and 600 miles out are not correct. He adds that there is no connection between the search program and the reports of so-called flying saucers.
As we started this little segment with retired Marine Corps Major Donald Keyho obviously supports the two and claimed the two satellites were orbiting earth and that the secretary of the air force Harold Talbott had personally seen one of them
Talbott denied the claims. Keyhoe was a UFO expert who wrote several nonfiction books on the subject and was taken quite seriously as a journalist.
There are lots of people that say Keyhoe was releasing a book at the time so wanted the publicity but this more than anything I find super compelling actually, not keyhoe but Lapaz and Tombaugh
 
 
 
Obviously this leads to an uproar of a government cover up because obviously the 2 are being silenced from saying anything
The launch of actual first satellites into orbit by Russia in 1957 and the U.S. in 1958 muddied the waters even further.
The U.S. Navy picked up a “dark, tumbling object” on radar on Feb. 11, 1960, which the Defence Department alleged was merely space debris from an Air Force Discoverer satellite. Declassified Pentagon papers later revealed this was a lie, and the object was in fact an American reconnaissance satellite launched to spy on Russia.
 
In February 1960, Time among numerous other outlets reported that the U.S. Navy had detected a dark object orbiting Earth and no one new where it came from. 
In March 1960, Time magazine claimed that the object was a retrorocket from a Discoverer satellite. See, when a satellite returns to Earth, it fires a retrorocket to slow its descent; the retrorocket has a parachute and is supposed to be picked up by scout planes as it falls.
According to Time, when this particular Discoverer launched its retrorocket in August 1959, it disappeared, and no one noticed it orbiting for five months, even though the Department of Defense (DOD) employed people whose sole responsibility was monitoring objects in space. These DOD employees used a radar detector dubbed "Dark Fence" to help alert them to objects orbiting over the US. Here’s how Time explained the blunder:
Instead of slowing the recovery capsule and bringing it down, the rocket's thrust had increased the capsule's speed and put it in a different and higher orbit, where it circled for five months before the still-inexperienced Dark Fence watchers noticed it. With this experience behind them. the space watchers could be expected to do better the next time a silent, unknown satellite starts criss-crossing the sky.
 
Naturally this leads people to believe that it was a cover up, why during that time they were publishing articles about mystery object orbiting earth, beyond me.
 
That same year an  American newspapers reported  that there was an unusual object in polar orbit, by then both superpowers had satellites in equatorial orbit but polar orbit meant that the satellite could see every part of the Earth, yet neither country admitted owning it. This may seem strange but remember that this was a time of deep-rooted suspicion and espionage not just with each other but now seemingly with extraterrestrials too.  
 
The following year, famed ufologist Jacques Vallée claimed he had recorded footage of a UFO that was in retrograde orbit around Earth’s rotation — until it was ominously confiscated, furthering charges that NASA was hiding something.
 
In 1963, astronaut Gordon Cooper claimed that he saw green lights belonging to the Black Knight on his pioneering Mercury 9 mission into Earth orbit with ground control radar at Muchea Tracking Station also allegedly picking up something inexplicable, while cooper has announced seeing many UFOS he claims he did not say this one and Neither NASA's mission transcripts nor Cooper's personal copies show any such report being made during the orbit, obviously coerced into silence
 
So then in 1973 science fiction author Duncan Lunan. An amateur astronomer, Lunan researched the phenomenon of LDEs (Long Delayed Echoes, you may remember these from Jørgen Hals) and posited that they were intelligent transmissions from a probe originating from Epsilon Böotes. Citing Stan­ford University’s Professor Ron Bracewell’s theory of alien probes (known as Bracewell Probes), he believed that such a probe had been hidden behind the Moon for some 13,000 years.
Despite Lunan specifically refuting any connection with the Black Knight Satellite mystery, his name is almost universally mentioned in its history. And, perhaps he unintentionally influenced the theory with his figure of 13,000 years.
Lunan told the magazine Spaceflight that a 13,000-year-old UFO orbiting the Earth was to blame for the bizarre sightings and signals. He even claimed to have decoded them as a message and said they were instructions from an alien race on a double star named “Epsilon Boötis.”
Lunan later withdrew his fantastical claim and firmly stated he wanted nothing to do with “the Black Knight Satellite nonsense.” But by then the conspiracy had spread within UFO circles without him. And by 1998, believers were primed to disbelieve anything NASA told them, especially about an official photograph they could see with their own eyes.


And with that we come to an end and now, one thing I would like to point out in all of this is I was not able to find any answer to whether or not amature astronomers have sightings of this thing

One other point I would like to make is not really a point rather than an allusion to what may be and that is “what’s X37b up to”?