This may seem strange but remember that this was a time of deep-rooted suspicion and espionage not just with each other but now seemingly with extra-terrestrials too.
However, on more careful analysis this strange structure seems more like a piece of space debris.
In actual fact this black object is probably a thermal blanket (to be precise, a Trunnion Pin Thermal Cover) that had become dislodged during an EVA.
These are fast-spinning neutron stars which emit a rhythmic signal.
They were first discovered in 1967 by Northern Irish astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell-Burnell (1943-).
The origin of the ominous name is part of the enigma; it is impossible to discover who first called it this or indeed why.
Humans have only in the last 60 years had the technology to launch a man-made object into space so what is the logical explanation of tales of an alien intruder on our doorstep?
When you have admitted seeing UFOs once perhaps other details of when and where often become less significant.
The STS-88 Encounter The most recent and most cited “evidence” for a mystery satellite from beyond dates from 1998.
In 1899, he reportedly intercepted a signal unlike any of the natural sources from Earth such as electrical storms that he had already investigated in his experiments. Tesla never claimed to have heard signals from a satellite orbiting Earth.
Today there are those who say he was listening to a transmission from an orbiting satellite of unknown origin later called by some the Black Knight.