00:00A mysterious satellite is said to have orbited Earth for 13,000 years,
00:04long before humanity launched anything into space.
00:07It is known as the Black Knight satellite.
00:10The first mystery came from unexplained signals.
00:13Nikola Tesla detected signals in Colorado Springs.
00:16Decades later, Juergen Howells heard transmissions return seconds after they were sent.
00:21No one knew what caused the delayed echoes, but neither man reported an object in orbit.
00:26During the Cold War, American trackers detected an unknown object in polar orbit.
00:32It was later traced to debris from a U.S. discoverer mission.
00:36Then the legend gained its strangest detail.
00:39Scottish writer Duncan Lunan believed the echoes formed a star map pointing toward Epsilon Budis.
00:46One star seemed to match its position from 13,000 years ago.
00:50But flaws emerged in the records, and Lunan withdrew the idea.
00:54Then came images that made the legend famous.
00:57During shuttle mission STS-88, astronauts photographed a dark object above Earth.
01:03Believers called it the Black Knight, but NASA identified it as a thermal cover lost during a spacewalk.
01:10The Black Knight may never have been one object.
01:12It may be signals, echoes, Cold War debris, and one unforgettable photograph,
01:18all fused into the legend of an ancient satellite.
01:21So did the Black Knight ever exist as one object?
01:24Or did we create it by connecting mysteries that were never connected?
01:28The Black Knight ever exist as one object?
01:28The Black Knight ever exist as one object?
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