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These were pictures taken on the STS088 shuttle mission, showing a rather large and bizarre piece of hardware in an orbit relatively close to the shuttle. The pictures are directly off of NASA's web site, at the following URLs. All of these bring up the best, hi res photos available. Zoom in on the strange object...

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/ISD/highres/STS088/STS088-724-70_3.JPG
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/ISD/highres/STS088/STS088-724-69_3.JPG
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/ISD/highres/STS088/STS088-724-68_3.JPG
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/ISD/highres/STS088/STS088-724-67_3.JPG
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/ISD/highres/STS088/STS088-724-66_3.JPG
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/ISD/highres/STS088/STS088-724-65_3.JPG


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those two pictures do look similar to the one from 1953?

Guess it couldnt just be really old space debris?

 
that we know of.... I think the SR 71 flew about 15 years before the government admitted it even existed..

what plane?

 
Maybe two years max before they admitted the Sr-71 existed. I have a Reders Digest article about it in 1964. I think the U-2 went maybe 5 years before it was public knowledge.

Have Blue, the F-117 proof of concept flew in 77, and I think the 117 was operation in 82, so thtat's maybe 7 years before they showed it.

I think if the US or Soviets had orbitted something prior to Sputnik, they dang sure would have crowed about it.

Googling Black Knight Probe shows some pretty interesting stuff, but you have to wade through the requisit nutiness and determine what os just silliness and what isn't.

The orbital mechanics are rather unusual if it came from earth.

 
Looks pretty big whatever it is. I read the link CW posted. Funny mention about the sci-fi writer who "spoke" to it.

 
A lot of Scifi movies (Blade Runner and Minority Report off the top of my head) are somewhat based on Phillip Dick's writings.

But that's what I was talking about when i mentioned weeding out the silliness.

 
Silly humans. There are no such things as aliens.

Clearly that is an HFS.

(Human of the Future Spacetimecraft)

Not to be confused with an HSD.

 
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