Henry Speeter
Henry Speeter
| Born | Henry Andrew Speeter October 27, 1971 |
|---|---|
| Death | September 29, 1999 (Aged 27) |
| Cause of Death | Car crash caused by intoxicated driver |
| Alma Mater | Yale University |
Henry Andrew Speeter (October 27, 1971 - September 29, 1999) was the son of american journalist Daniel Speeter. He is most known for coining the term "The Lost Stars" to refer to the five civillians rumored to have gone missing on the OV Sagittarius Space Shuttle as well as reigniting the OV Sagittarius Orbital Flight Incident Hoax.
Speeter was born in Washington D.C in 1960 and raised predominately by his mother, Velma Quinton. Likely inspired by the passing of his father in 1983, Speeter would also begin looking into the OV Sagittarius Orbital Flight Incident Hoax , eventually releasing one of the earliest politcal blog posts entitled "Where Are Our Lost Stars?" to his personal blogging website in September of 1999.
Career
Early Life
Speeter was born to Daniel Speeter and Velma Quinton on October 27, 1971 in Washington D.C. The family would move up to Silver Springs, Maryland shortly thereafter, which is where Henry spent all of his youth.
When Speeter was 11, he walked down the street from where he stayed with his mother to drop off a belated birthday present to his father on February 19, 1982. Upon arriving, Henry noted the door was unlocked, which was unusual for his father. When Henry entered the kitchen of the home, he found his father with a bullet wound to the head, empty bottles of wine surrounding him. 911 was called and emergency services arrived on the scene quickly, but determined that Daniel had been dead for at least 2 days. This seemed to motivate Henry, who hadn't been performing well in school, to focusing on his studies, and he would go on to graduate valedictorian of his class and get a full ride to Yale University, much like his father, from which he obtained a Bacherlor's in politcal science.
Career
Henry would go on to become an editor for several newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post. He kept a lot of his career private, not wanting to show it to the public the way his father did, nor "...wanting to achieve anything grand..." as he stated in an interview with The Centennial.
Lost Stars
With the invention of Online Diaries and Blogs on the rise in late 1998, Speeter took it upon himself to create his own website in which he released many blog posts, including his blog post "Where Are Our Lost Stars?" which he posted on September 14, 1983. On this blog, he made many claims in regards to research he had done into the OV Sagittarius Orbital Flight Incident, including findings from his father's studies as well as an online blog he had made from the diary of Jane Hopkins, which allegedly was given to him by Piper Hopkins. His blog post would go on to reignite the speculation into the Sagittarus Incident over 15 years later.
However, interest in the hoax had significantly waned, and many people assumed he was trying to ride the coattails of his father. In addition to that, Speeter posted his blog at 12:01 EST. Come 7am the following morning, the blog had been removed from the internet, as had the online diary of Jane Hopkins. To this day, only a small number of people have ever seen the blog, and many people believe the blog to be a publicity stunt or a hoax planned out by Speeter, with Janes's diary being reduced to nothing more than an urban legend.
Death
On the night of September 28, Speeter had been out to dinner with colleauges for dinner when he decided to go home early. People present at that dinner said Speeter had been nervous for the entire span of the two weeks since he had posted his blog, remarking feeling watched. Citing a headache, he excused himself from the restaurant and began driving home. On the way home, he was T-boned by a drunk driver. He was transported to an Emergency Room but was declared dead at 2:17AM on September the 29th.