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The "Black Knight Satellite" legend, featured in "NASA's Unexplained Files," alleges an ancient extraterrestrial probe, but it is actually a thermal blanket lost during the 1998 STS-88 mission. While often described as a 13,000-year-old alien craft, NASA identified the object in the famous photo as debris that subsequently burned up in the atmosphere.

The "Black Knight Satellite" legend, featured in "NASA's Unexplained Files," alleges an ancient extraterrestrial probe, but it is actually a thermal blanket lost during the 1998 STS-88 mission. While often described as a 13,000-year-old alien craft, NASA identified the object in the famous photo as debris that subsequently burned up in the atmosphere.

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