Len Colby Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 (edited) Audio Recordings Document 'Weird Music' Heard By Apollo Astronauts On Far Side Of Moon "If you’re behind the moon and hear some weird noise on your radio, and you know you’re blocked from the Earth, then what could you possibly think?" 02/20/2016 12:52 pm ET | Updated 5 days ago Lee Speigel Reporter, The Huffington Post MARK GARLICK. via Getty Images Earth and the far side of the moon, where the Apollo astronauts encountered the strange music-like radio transmissions. The crew of an Apollo mission to the moon were so startled when they encountered strange music-like noises coming through their headsets, they didn't know whether or not to report it to NASA. It was 1969, two months before Apollo 11's historic first manned landing on the moon, when Apollo 10 entered lunar orbit, which included traversing the far side of the moon where all spacecraft are out of radio contact with Earth for about an hour and nobody on Earth can see or hear them. [...] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/apollo-10-astronauts-reported-unexplained-music-at-moon_us_56c80662e4b0928f5a6c0679 Edited March 1, 2016 by Len Colby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evan Burton Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 It turned out that it was interference between the VHF radios in the two spacecraft. They reported that it was only heard when the spacecraft were in visual range. Good story, though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Colby Posted March 5, 2016 Author Share Posted March 5, 2016 So it wasn't ET phoning home? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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