9.8 – THE MYSTERIOUS NINE (7.8.16)

THE BLACK KNIGHT ^[9d]

December, 1998. During the assembly of the International Space Station, U.S. astronauts spot a large unidentified item orbiting the Earth. They take photographs of the mysterious object, and post them on the NASA website.

“When you actually look at the photographs of the object, it very obviously looks artificial. This is not a meteor. This is not a chunk of rock. This is something has a dark, streamlined, technological appearance, almost like some stealth aircraft that we’ve built, with a kind of bent nose I the front, sort of like a hawk.” – David Wilcock (Author/Filmmaker), (Author, The Source Field Investigations), (The Synchronicity Key)

Curiously, NASA officials quickly remove the photos, and claim the object was space debris – most likely a thermal blanket, inadvertently released from the space station. But some independent researchers are not convinced, and suggest that it might be the latest evidence of the “Black Knight” satellite that first made headlines three years before the first man-made satellite was launched into orbit.

In 1954, both The San Francisco Examiner and the Aviation Week Journal published articles detailing what appeared to be artificial satellites orbiting the Earth.

“It really shocked a lot of people, because although the concept of satellites were known, nobody on the planet was flying a satellite. The story really takes off with a man named Major Donald Keyhoe. He was formerly with the U.S. military, and wrote a number of books on UFOs. One of the things that Keyhoe wrote about was how supposedly a number of military insiders had told him that the U.S. military was tracking one or two unknown satellites of extraordinary size in Earth orbit. Nobody knew what they were. This was long before Sputnik, the first satellite launched by the Russians. And it gave rise to the idea that it was extraterrestrial.” – Nick Redfern (Author, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter), (The Real Men in Black), (Final Events), (The World’s Weirdest Places), (Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind), (Bloodline of the Gods), (The NASA Conspiracies), (On the Trail of the Saucer Spies: UFOs and Government Surveillance)

The United States Department of Defense was said to have recruited the assistance of astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh in 1953 to identify this strange object. However, his conclusions were never made public. Based on its appearance on radar in the 1960s, scientists estimated that the mystery satellite weighed over ten tons. It was not only several times larger than anything worldwide space programs were capable of launching, but it also seemed to be traveling in an artificial orbit, circling the Earth from pole to pole.

“The Black Knight is said to be in a polar orbit, which is what you would do if you wanted to cover the entire planet Earth as it rotated underneath you. Weather satellites, spy satellites are commonly put into this polar orbit in order to cover the entire surface of the Earth. This implies that it is an unnatural object.” – Michael Bara (Author, The Choice), (Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA), (Ancient Aliens on the Moon), (Ancient Aliens on Mars), (Ancient Aliens and Secret Societies)

“What’s particularly intriguing about this satellite is it’s not one of ours. In other words, the theory is that this is an extraterrestrial satellite that has perhaps been monitoring planet Earth for thousands of years.” – Nick Pope (British Ministry of Defense, 1985-2006), (Author, Open Skies, Closed Minds)

“In the 19302 ham radio operators claimed they were picking up radio signals from outer space. And Nikola Tesla himself claimed that he was picking up radio signals from Mars. So, you have to wonder, were ham radio operators and even Nikola Tesla somehow picking up signals from this extraterrestrial ship orbiting our planet?” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods)

“A ham radio operator was able to decipher this signal, and create a matrix grid of individual dots that were either white or black. When he looked at this grid, he concluded that it was a map of the Epsilon Bootes constellation, positioned where it would have been 13,000 years ago.” – David Wilcock (Author/Filmmaker), (Author, The Source Field Investigations), (The Synchronicity Key)

Might this mysterious object actually have traveled to Earth 13,000 years ago? And if so, was it put into orbit by extraterrestrials in order to observe Earth? Ancient Astronaut Theorists say yes, and suggest that descriptions of an extraterrestrial satellite can even be found thousands of years ago, in the Hebrew text known as the “Apocalypse of Baruch.”

“The Apocalypse of Baruch is one of the best Ancient Astronaut stories in existence, because it describes an eyewitness account of a satellite orbiting the Earth. Baruch describes how he sees a magnificent bird that watched the happenings on the planet. And from time to time this bird would extend its wings to glean or to gather the power of the Sun. And after flying around, that bird would be so exhausted, it would retract its wings. If we look at today’s satellites in space, It’s the same story. We have solar cells on wings that can extend, and then they can retract at will. So, what if Baruch witnessed something similar? Baruch himself said that this is ’the guardian of the Earth.’” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos (Publisher, Legendary Times Magazine)

Might the mythological bird described in the Apocalypse of Baruch have actually been an observational satellite? Could this be proof that extraterrestrials have been keeping watch over Earth for thousands of years, as some Ancient Astronaut Theorists suggest? And, if so, do they pose a threat? Perhaps additional clues can be found by exploring the rumors of an alien encounter…at the White House.

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