The ancient satellites
Similar stories were published in the St. Louis Dispatch and the San Francisco Examiner in 1954 about retired naval aviation major Donald Keyhoe’s claim that the US Air Force detected two satellites orbiting the earth, at a time when no country had launched any spacecraft into space yet. The first satellite wasn’t launched until 1957 when Russia successfully sent Sputnik orbiting around the Earth. The story created a sensation, prompting UFOlogists to theorize that the satellites were 13,000 years old and were extraterrestrial in origin.
