Editing Black Knight Satellite — Master Case File (section)

=== Primary Case Identification ===

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! Field !! Detail
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| Popular name || Black Knight Satellite; Black Knight; the Dark Satellite
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| Alleged type || Artificial satellite of extraterrestrial origin
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| Alleged age || Approximately 13,000 years
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| Alleged orbit || Near-polar low Earth orbit
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| Alleged function || Surveillance / observation probe; signal transmitter
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| Alleged origin || Extraterrestrial civilization; some accounts cite Epsilon Bootis star system
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| Official classification || Not acknowledged as extraterrestrial by any space agency
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| STS-88 object classification || NASA catalogue item 25570; thermal blanket / space debris
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| Primary debunker || James Oberg, space journalist and NASA mission specialist
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| Name origin || Unknown; cannot be traced to a specific first use
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| Component source events || Tesla 1899; Hals 1927; Keyhoe 1954; U.S. Navy 1960; Cooper 1963; Lunan 1973; STS-88 1998
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| Primary visual evidence || NASA STS-88 mission photographs, December 1998
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| Cultural penetration || Widely recognized in popular media, music, internet culture, and UFO communities worldwide
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