It was almost 47 years ago, two months before Apollo 11’s historic first manned landing on the moon when something weird happened. Apollo 10 had entered the lunar orbit which included traversing the far side of the moon. On this side of the moon, all spacecraft lose contact with Earth for about an hour and nobody on Earth can see or hear them. There were in total three astronauts in the Apollo at that time. It was these three astronauts who heard strange otherworldly music-like noises coming from their headsets. They were startled and couldn’t decide if this was to be reported to NASA.
For people on earth, the mission was smooth and nothing unusual took place during its course, but it was NASA’s unexplained files that discuss the overlooked recordings of the three astronauts talking of this unsettling experience while flying above the other side of the moon. The conversation between the astronauts reveals that they did hear some strange otherworldly music coming through the Apollo module’s radio.
The following is the conversation that took place between the astronauts after hearing that weird music:
“It sounds like, you know, outer space-type music.”
“You hear that? That whistling sound? Whooooooooo!”
“Well, that sure is weird music!”
“It’s unbelievable! You know?”
“Shall we tell them about it?”
“I don’t know. We ought to think about it.”
Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden believes that the Apollo 10 crew knew very well the kind of noise they should be hearing. So logically if they heard something weird then there was something there. He said that NASA would withhold information from the public if they thought it was in the public’s best interest.
NASA also issued a statement regarding this explaining that the files have long been available to the public. The tapes were never lost. The statement says: “While listed as ‘confidential’ in 1969 at the height of the Space Race, Apollo 10 mission transcripts and audio have been publicly available since 1973. Since the Internet did not exist in the Apollo era, NASA has only recently provided digital files for some of those earlier missions.
The Apollo 10 audio clips were uploaded in 2012, but the mission’s audio recordings have been available at the National Archives since the early 1970s. As for the likely source of the sounds questioned in the television program, Apollo 10 Lunar Module Pilot Gene Cernan told NASA on Monday, ‘I don’t remember that incident exciting me enough to take it seriously. It was probably just radio interference. Had we thought it was something other than that, we would have briefed everyone after the flight. We never gave it another thought.”
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