Tapes reveal unsettling sounds from the dark side of the moon

“Whooooooooo!” one of them says.

Two months before Apollo 11 landed two men on the moon for the first time, the crew of Apollo 10 – Commander Thomas P. Stafford, Command Module Pilot John W. Young, Lunar Module Pilot Eugene A. Cernan – entered lunar orbit as part of a “dress rehearsal” for the Apollo 11 moon landings.

The documentary takes a closer look to the sounds in question and even gives the viewers a snippet of them as they remained on a recording since the lunar orbit mission.

So they chose to keep mum about the odd situation and kept the secret for so long. It is not the first time that we get to see with our own eyes the transcript of everything that happened in the several hours that the astronauts spent on the dark side of the Moon and outside radio range. However, they didn’t know whether they should or shouldn’t report them to NASA. However, the sounds that they were referencing to have only just been made public – that too for an episode of new Science Channel series “NASA’s Unexplained Files”. One was heard describing the sound as “outer space-type of music”, while another described it as whistling.

The third says: “Well, that sure is weird music”. This included spending an hour crossing the far side of the moon, which blocked all contact with Earth.

The astronauts on board Apollo 10 talked to each other about this peculiar situation.

The crew members considered whether to report the matter to mission control.

– “Shall we tell them about it?” “We ought to think about it”, they questioned.

Before the astronauts, who were orbiting the Moon, re-entered the area where they could communicate with ground control they discussed what they had heard. But as per Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, the Apollo 10 astronauts were very much used to what one should be hearing in space.

Worden said NASA would withhold information from the public if they thought it’s the public’s best interest; but in 2008, the tapes with the moon music were declassified.

However, the sound stopped once the Apollo 11 lunar module did land on the moon’s surface and the “woo-woo” noises stopped.

Apollo mission astronauts were apparently baffled by unusual music-like radio transmissions coming through their headsets from far side of the moon.

The show pointed out some theories as to the nature of the music-like sounds. “Because you never really know”.

In the end, Worden says he has an open mind about it but stresses the value of evidence versus mere memory. Recollecting is one thing and actual proof is something completely different.

Suddenly, unusual “music” echoed, and they all heard it.