Myths Checked
NASA: Myths checked
Myths Checked pages that draw on NASA, each with the sources shown. Start with Apollo 10 'outer-space music', Apollo 11: the object Aldrin saw, STS-48: the 'zig-zag' video, STS-75: the tether incident video.
Records · NASAApollo 10 'outer-space music'Behind the Moon and out of radio contact with Earth, the Apollo 10 crew heard a whistling sound they called 'outer-space-type music' and wondered whether anyone would believe them.Records · NASAApollo 11: the object Aldrin sawOn the way to the Moon, the Apollo 11 crew watched a bright object that looked like an open suitcase. In 2005 a TV program made it sound like a UFO; Aldrin said it was edited to reverse his meaning.Events · NASASTS-48: the 'zig-zag' videoA camera on Space Shuttle Discovery filmed dots of light drifting over the Earth; after a flash, some of them suddenly changed direction.Events · NASASTS-75: the tether incident videoAfter a 12-mile tether snapped and its satellite drifted away from Space Shuttle Columbia, a camera filmed dozens of glowing discs that seemed to swarm around it.Objects · NASAThe Black Knight satelliteOnline legend says a 13,000-year-old alien satellite circles the Earth, and NASA photographed it in 1998. NASA's own photo catalog files that picture under 'space debris'.Events · NASAThe Challenger crew 'still alive' claimA viral claim says the seven astronauts killed on Challenger in 1986 are still alive, because people with the same names and similar faces work in America today.Events · NASA'There is a Santa Claus': the Christmas 'code' claimWhen Apollo 8 came out from behind the Moon on Christmas Day 1968, Jim Lovell radioed 'Please be informed there is a Santa Claus.' Some UFO writers say it was a code word for aliens.
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