Dark Knight Satellite
Detail of NASA photo id STS088-724-66 taken during Space Shuttle mission STS-88, described as showing an item of "space debris", an object claimed by conspiracy theorists to be an alien satellite, the Black Knight. NASA

A UFO expert claimed that NASA was able to capture images of three alien vessels flying next to its space shuttles in different missions. As indicated in NASA’s database, the alleged vessels were classified as unknown objects.

The report regarding the appearance of the alleged alien vessels was made by Scott Waring of ET Data Base. According to Waring, the strange objects were photographed during two separate NASA missions.

Two of the three objects appeared during STS-61-B. It was launched on Nov. 27, 1985, and featured the Space Shuttle Atlantis. As for the third object, it was spotted during the STS-32 mission, which took place on Jan. 9, 1990. It served as the ninth flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

The mysterious objects had different distinct shapes and were all photographed near the shuttles. Waring noted that all of them have been labeled as unknown objects by NASA.

“I found three different objects in a NASA index and all are marked unknown,” Waring stated on a blog post. “All were seen and photographed from a space shuttle. They came from STS 32, STS61...those are two different shuttle missions and shuttles. What are they and why were they outside the window of the space shuttle?”

Based on the shapes of the objects, they could be discarded panels from the rocket that brought the shuttles into space. It is also possible that the objects could be one of the thousands of space junk pieces floating around Earth.

However, if they were pieces of man-made debris, they would have been labeled properly by NASA. Also, Waring pointed out that the objects appeared to be moving alongside the shuttles, which means they might have their own propulsion systems. Because of these, Waring concluded that the objects were alien vessels that were probably trying to observe NASA’s shuttles.

“Were they UFOs?” Waring stated. “I believe they have a high probability of being an alien craft. You see, the shuttle is in orbit and traveling at 17,500 miles per hour...that’s 28,000 kilometers per hour! Those unknown objects have their own propulsion to keep up at that speed.”