Mystery AtlasNikola Tesla
Serbian-American inventor and engineer whose 1899 Colorado Springs radio experiments detected repeating signals he speculated might be extraterrestrial, later retroactively cited as an origin point for the Black Knight satellite claim.
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Theories & Explanations
Nikola Tesla served as the basis for Black Knight Satellite Claim — Tesla's 1899 signals are retroactively cited as an origin, though researchers now generally attribute them to natural sources later clarified by the 1968 discovery of pulsars.
People
Nikola Tesla was investigated by John G. Trump — The US government's Office of Alien Property called Trump, an MIT professor, to review Tesla's seized papers on 8-9 January 1943; he reported finding no new workable principles among them.
Nikola Tesla served as the basis for Duncan Lunan — Lunan's analysis used the 1920s long-delayed-echo radio phenomenon later also retroactively linked to Tesla's earlier experiments.
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