[PROCON]

The taped recordings contained "strange, otherworldly music coming through the Apollo module's radio," according to the upcoming Science Channel series, "NASA's Unexplained Files."

A couple of short videos at the link offer various explanations for the phenomena.

[mass55th]

Star Lord’s Mix-tape.

[BlueLancer]

God's Cricket Chorus"

Nothing here but massively-slowed down cricket sounds ...

[xp38]

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

It may have been Bigfoot intervening in earth's space program.

It has now been revealed that UFO's and Bigfoot are linked. This theory explains why no Bigfoot bodies have been found. A UFO picks up the remains of Bigfoot who die on earth and takes them to Bolok the Bigfoot home planet. This theory has been proposed by ancient astronaut theorists.

[fruser1]

From a copy I have of an Apollo News Reference from Grumman:

“When the Lunar Module (LM) and Command and Service Module (CSM) are behind the moon, VHF channel A is used for simplex LM-CSM voice communications. VHF channel B is used as a one way data link to transmit system telemetry signals from the LM to be recorded and stored by the CSM. When the CSM establishes S-band contact with Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN) the stored data are transmitted by the CSM at 32 times the recording speed.”

So it looks to me like the Apollo was designed to automatically cut over to sending telemetry over one of the voice channels as soon as contact was lost w/MSFN. This is consistent w/the sound starting when they “go dark” and it stops when they emerge. MSFN is earth-side.

So it could be that what they were hearing was the pseudorandom noise of telemetry being sent on one of their voice channels.

[SunkenCiv]

“Linus and Lucy” would have been appropriate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zypc_LhnM

[bk1000]

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

This discovery obviously proves that Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a documentary.

[colinhester]

Bflr

[TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed]

This is impossible. Astronauts have never been to “the far side of the moon.”

[Darksheare]

UT space weirdness ping.
PLasma interactions will make sounds, Nasa had a recording awhile back from the Voyagers with the recordings of that.
But not via the radio system.

Also, not my fault.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Maybe it was really Alice Kramden complaining about how dusty the Moon is.

[Samwell Tarly]

It's Xenu.

Tom Cruise and John Travolta are right!

[Albion Wilde]

bump for later

[Heart-Rest]

When they ran the recordings through the inverted dethrobinizalscrapulator, the following music emerged:

"Space Music"

[WeatherGuy]

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X-A luna bot
X-A luna lot

There are seven moons/Of Beta Lyrae/Seven moons
All made for love
X-A luna bot
X-A luna lot
Seven moons above
Seven kinds of love

There are seven moons of Beta Lyrae
Seven moons that shine above/Seven times the shine
For a girl and boy
Seven moons above
Seven times the love

From the deep blue sea
To the galaxy
Seven moons above
Seven times the love.

[Califreak]

And everything under the sun is in tune

But the sun is eclipsed by the moon

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The unexplained "music" transmission lasted almost an hour, and just before the astronauts regained radio contact with Earth, they discussed whether or not to tell Mission Control what they had experienced

It takes an hour to traverse the dark side of the moon after LOS?

[Albion Wilde]

Thank you for posting this thread. Very interesting.