No, the Apollo 10 Astronauts Didn’t Hear ‘Alien Music’ Behind the Moon

There are two ways to try to get attention on the science blogs and in the space nerd circuit: One, claim that there’s a deep, unexplained secret NASA is keeping about an alien encounter during the Apollo era. Or two, don’t claim that there’s a deep, unexplained secret NASA is keeping about an alien encounter during the Apollo era. Which do you think gets you more attention? If you didn’t have to puzzle too hard over that one, you probably aren’t surprised at all by the attention being paid to a late-breaking, “newly declassified” story that the Apollo 10 astronauts heard alien music through their headsets when they were on the far side of the moon in 1969 and kept the story buried all these years. Let’s start with the most important fact: This isn’t true, as in it’s made up, as in it’s nonsense. And the good thing is, you don’t have to believe me. You can take it from from Gene Cernan, the Apollo 10 lunar module pilot, who unlike all of the Internet chatterers, was actually aboard the spacecraft when the supposed music started streaming in. “Forget the UFOs,” Cernan told TIME. “We took a cassette tape recorder quite simply to play our favorite music which we also played for the ground a time or two. Maybe that was it. It would be interesting to know where this all started.” Listen to TIME’s new space podcast, It’s Your Universe The best place to begin figuring that ou...
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