Strange Skies and Disasters
NASA: Strange skies
Strange Skies and Disasters pages that draw on NASA, each with the sources shown. Start with Apollo 10 'outer-space music', Apollo 11: the object Aldrin saw, Gemini 4: McDivitt's cylinder, Gemini 7: the 'bogey at 10 o'clock high'.
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.Records · NASAGemini 4: McDivitt's cylinderOn Gemini 4, astronaut Jim McDivitt saw a white cylinder with an arm sticking out, close enough that he thought they might have to dodge it. It was never identified.Records · NASAGemini 7: the 'bogey at 10 o'clock high'Minutes into a two-week flight, Frank Borman radioed 'Bogey at 10 o'clock high.' UFO books later called it a sighting; Borman said he meant his own rocket.People · NASAGordon Cooper's UFO statementsOne of the original Mercury Seven, Gordon Cooper spent his later years saying UFOs were real and the government was hiding them. He also insisted he never saw one in space.Records · NASANASA UAP Independent Study Team report (2023)NASA's first formal look at UFOs, now called UAP, found no evidence they come from elsewhere, and said the real problem is bad data.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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