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Skeptoid #365: The Black Knight Satellite

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2013

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

An object claimed to be 13,000-year-old alien satellite orbiting the Earth is just a piece of an old space shuttle.

Transcript

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If you go out onto the internet looking to learn about aliens or spaceships or extraterrestrial

0:08.6

threats to the earth, one thing you're sure to come across is what's called the Black

0:13.6

Night Satellite.

0:15.4

Supposedly, this alien device has been in orbit for thousands of years, but in this case,

0:21.2

it's not just internet legend, it also has some very clear photographs to back it up.

0:27.4

The Black Night Satellite is coming up next, Unskeptoid.

0:31.4

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0:39.3

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1:06.4

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1:20.1

You're listening to skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from skeptoid.com.

1:24.7

The Black Night Satellite.

1:27.5

Stories say it's up there in the blackness right now, just outside the Earth's glow.

1:32.4

It tumbles slowly and deliberately through the darkness, sweeping smoothly along its

1:36.8

unrelenting orbit.

1:38.7

The Earth spins below largely unaware of its unauthorized parasitic visitor.

1:44.4

It is the Black Night Satellite, a mysterious object circling the Earth of unknown and possibly

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