Of course this
all flows as one with the general thesis of continuing alien intervention in
human affairs which are now much more visible principally because the internet
has provided us with six billion eyeballs and a community of support for first
time observers.
I personally
have received first class reports from personal contacts that only came to me
once they understood that I would respect them.
I never solicited such reports and they have come always as a surprise. My own sense is that a serious fraction of
the human race has actually had a clear observation beyond dispute.
Thus we are been
observed. Satellites are
inevitable. That the one in question
appears to be linked to a clear message is also telling. As well we have the curious Dick report which
we really need to take at face value from a skilled observer. He also acted as an informant to humanity.
Understand what
is going on. Humanity is been pushed
long as fast as possible because there is little reason to go slow now. We are almost at the threshold of our future. Knowledge acquisition velocity is optimized
with the internet and can only scale from here.
The Black Knight
Satellite, Bracewell Probes, and Philip K. Dick
Here follows one of the most interesting and complex
stories of Space Conspiracy in existence. It’s the story of the Black
Knight satellite, and so much more. We’re about to go from a misreported
news item from 1960, to theoretical science and radio transmission, to the
writings of Philip K. Dick, but there’s much ground to cover in between.
It begins in the beginning, sort of.
In March of 1960, Time Magazine published a story in
their hallowed rag, detailing the discovery of what ultimately became known as
the Black Knight satellite. As the story goes, three weeks prior to their
publication, analysts working for the US ‘Dark Fence’ radar program detected
an object orbiting above the continental United States. It was
labelled a ‘dark satellite’, in that it seemed to be a man-made object in a
near-Earth orbit, but wasn’t transmitting any detectable signals.
The Dark Fence program’s purpose was to monitor
known satellite objects, whether American or Russian, or otherwise, and to
identify new objects, so as to stay abreast of Soviet spy satellites and other
space-military operations that might have been undertaken over US airspace.
This, of course, was at the height of the Cold War, and the political climate
around the world was focused on military secrecy and keeping up with the
Russians. It was also at the very beginning of the global Space Race.
What was strange about this ‘dark satellite’, was
that it was neither American nor Russian, or at least it didn’t conform to any
known American or Russian satellite at the time. It was also in a ‘polar’
orbit, meaning that it passed over or near both the north and south poles once
per revolution, which was reported to be impossible at the time.
The Time article attributed this ‘dark satellite’ to
mismanagement of the Dark Fence program, and it was suggested that the object
they detected was actually the Discoverer 1 Corona Reconnaissance satellite
that was launched in February of the previous year. Discover 1 was
intended to have a low-Earth geocentric ‘polar’ orbit, but it failed to achieve
such an orbital path and is believed to have crashed somewhere near the South
Pole in short order.
Right from the start, Black Knight was an enigma,
even though many accepted the idea that it was really just a misplaced American
science project. Others, of course, felt there was more to this than was
reported.
On September 3, 1960, a camera at the Grumman
Aircraft Corp. Long Island factory managed to capture an image of the object.
It was said to be a redish-pink glowing object moving in an east-to-west orbit,
which is, apparently, the opposite of most other man-made satellites, and which
doesn’t fit the polar orbit reported by Time. Subsequent to this,
astronaut Gordon Cooper Jr. allegedly caught a first-hand glimpse of the object
during his 22-orbit Mercury-Atlas 9 flight, which was the final of the Mercury
Program missions. Cooper claimed that it was an object much larger than
any other man-made satellite of the time, and that it glowed a neon green.
Cooper, who passed away in 2004, had long been
sympathetic to the UFOlogy movement and had been vocal about not only the
reality of extraterrestrial life, but also the idea that the US government had
been and continues to be complicit in a cover-up of contact with such.
Then in 1998, during NASA mission STS-88 to the ISS,
flown by the Space Shuttle Endeavour, images were captured of an unidentified
object in orbit; an object that a great many people believe is the ever elusive
Black Knight satellite.
Following Time’s publication, John Keel detailed the
discovery in his book Disneyland of the Gods (1988), wherein he noted that
around the same time that Dark Fence detected this mysterious object, ground
based HAM operators were reporting having received strange radio signals.
According to Keel, one such HAM operator received and decoded a signal and claimed
that the message corresponded to a star chart, plotted from Earth 13,000 years
ago, and focused on a star system called Epsilon Boötis…and this is where
things get really interesting.
That HAM operator was Duncan Lunan, a Scottish author of science fiction, with a focus
on astronomy and spaceflight. Lunan claimed, in an article in the British
Interplanetary Society’s magazine, Spaceflight, that he had encountered and
interpreted a signal from an alien probe somewhere in orbit around the
Earth. He said that the same signal had previously been detected by
researchers in the 1920’s who were studying the long delayed echo effect
(or LDE), but that they had disregarded the encoded message as having been an
echo of an Earth-originating signal bouncing off of either the moon or Earth’s
upper atmosphere. In his article, Lunan relayed the decoded message as
follows:
“Start here. Our home is Upsilon Bootes, which is
a double star. We live on the sixth planet of seven, coming from the sun, which
is the larger of the two. Our sixth planet has one moon. Our fourth planet has
three. Our first and third planets each have one. Our probe is in the position
of Arcturus, known in our maps.”
Many believe, including Lunan, that this message
came from a Bracewell probe in orbit around Earth. A Bracewell probe is a
theoretical autonomous satellite built to remotely explore distant star systems
with the expressed purpose of communicating with alien civilizations. An
interesting coincidence in all this, is that the concept of a Bracewell
probe was first proposed by telecommunication and radioscience engineer Ronald
Bracewell, in a paper published in 1960, the same year Black Knight was
discovered. A notable example of a Bracewell probe is the
device that featured in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode ‘The Inner
Light’ (season five, episode 25).
It’s also interesting to note that one of the theoretical
causes of the mysterious long delay echo effect, which is a strange
anomaly experienced by radio operators, wherein transmitted signals echo back
to the transceiver several seconds after transmission, is that alien technology
is retransmitting those signals back in the direction of the transmitter in an
effort to communicate…possibly by a probe located in orbit.
That isn’t the most widely accepted theory used to
explain LDE of course, but it is listed as a possible cause for the effect,
among electromagnetic interference and EME or Earth-Moon-Earth signal bounce
(or even EMEME / double EME).
And now we’re about to dive into the real weirdness.
In 1980 Philip K. Dick published what many believe
to be his magnum opus, VALIS. VALIS is an almost autobiographical novel,
wherein he detailed many of the strange and paranormal experiences he had
over his lifetime (up to that point, obviously). In that book he
detailed an event that occurred on February 20, 1974 at his home in Chicago,
Illinois. He received a delivery at the hands of a beautiful young
woman who wore a gold necklace with an odd fish-shaped pendant. Dick
recounted that the sun glinted off of the pendant, which caused what he called
a ‘pink beam’ that penetrated his eye and imparted untold wisdom in the blink
of an eye.
Dick claimed that this ‘pink beam’, which he claimed
to have experienced on multiple occasions, was a transformative event in his
life, and though most saw it as an hallucination, he used the experience,
referred to as 2-3-74, as inspiration for the VALIS Trilogy.
There are a great many people who believe that the
origin of that ‘pink beam’ was in fact, the Black Knight satellite, associating
the ‘pink beam’ with the redish-pink colour of the satellite. It’s
fairly well known that certain academics view VALIS, as a result of comments
made by Dick in his exegesis, as a sort of cipher key, needed to decode the
true meaning behind Dick’s ten most important works, which are known as the
‘meta-novel’. Those works are: Eye in the Sky, Time Out of Joint, The Man
in the High Castle, The Game Players of Titan, Martian Time Slip, The Three
Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, UBIK, and A Maze of Death.
The fact that Eye in the Sky was written just three
years before Black Knight was discovered, suggests to some that Dick was the
recipient of otherworldly communication, possibly from a civilization hailing
from the Epsilon Boötis star system.
You might be thinking that it should now be a fairly
simple endeavour to confirm the existence of such a thing in orbit around
Earth, if it’s still there that is, but consider this…
Right now there are somewhere in the neighbourhood
of 100,000 man-made objects orbiting Earth. Some are multi-billion dollar
uber-sciencey military satellites, or telecomm satellites or even scientific
instruments, but most are simple space junk, like parts off of old spacecraft
or dead satellites etc. A good portion of that space junk is ‘dark’, in
the same way Black Knight was thought to be, making it very difficult to
differentiate between one bit and another. Black Knight may be lost among
a cloud of garbage, which seems par for the course on our planet.
NASA and other space agencies around the world have
put a great deal of thought into the issue of space junk, and the Chinese are
currently in the process of developing a sort of net that will be used to
collect space debris and safely bring it back to Earth for recycling or to
otherwise be dealt with. But what if they bring Black Knight down?
Here’s the thing about all of this. The above
may seem like a lot of conjecture and supposition, and perhaps some of it is – surely
it’s a stretch to say that Philip K. Dick was a harbinger of tidings from an
alien species using a Bracewell probe – but many of the facts are
confirmed. Black Knight does seem to exist, and while noting that certain
governments do have a penchant for secret technology and clandestine
operations, its origin and purpose seems to defy explanation. If we are
able to accept the stories and theories held therein, and the, at times
tenuous, connections between them, can we accept that there’s a 13,000 year
old alien probe orbiting our planet, sending literary inspiration to select
people via the gold necklaces of attractive delivery people?
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