- NASA is dedicated to the exploration of space,
technological advancement, and transparency.
But that last word, transparency,
is the focus of doubt for many.
Some ask is there any actual proof
that NASA is hiding something from the world?
Rumors persist that strange events
have indeed been captured on camera by NASA
and have been kept hidden.
Those are exactly the tapes
that we're going to be discussing today,
the exact tapes they don't want you to know about.
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Here are 10 NASA space tapes they don't want you to see.
Number 10 are the Apollo tapes.
The Apollo space program ran from 1960 until 1972.
Its aim was simple.
To put a human being on the moon
and to unlock the secrets of our nearest celestial neighbor.
In fact, when we did finally land on the moon in 1969,
it was seen as the greatest technological advancement
since human beings had discovered fire.
Why, then, are many of the tapes which documented
this incredible journey missing or destroyed?
You'd think that those involved in the space program
would want to capture their achievements
for future generations.
Some believe that the reason the tapes are missing
is because they hint at a difficult truth.
Two possibilities have been presented,
that the tapes contain evidence that the moon mission
was a hoax or, more tantalizingly,
they include footage of a rumored alien encounter
in the depths of space.
Number nine is STS-80.
Hundreds of manned space missions
have taken place over the last few decades.
Most of them were to lower orbits
where astronauts would repair satellites
or carry out work on the International Space Station.
During these missions,
cameras have captured strange anomalies.
These include objects which move
as though they're being controlled by an intelligence.
Astronauts were there to deploy
orbital equipment including two satellites,
but their cameras inadvertently picked up
bright objects which moved in the distance.
Unlike any piece of debris,
these objects seemed to change orientation,
something debris should not be able to do.
What they were, no one is sure,
but it's certainly a topic
which some NASA officials continue to evade.
Number eight is Gemini 4.
During the Gemini 4 mission in 1965,
which was NASA's second manned space flight,
pilot Jim McDivitt was shocked to see
a strange object in the distance,
set against the blackness of space.
The object was cylindrical,
with a long pole sticking out from one corner.
McDivitt himself was noncommittal about it,
not knowing exactly what he had seen.
But there was film footage taken
at other points during the mission,
so the fact that alleged footage
of such a singular encounter is missing
seems eerily suspicious.
Number seven is Apollo 10.
Apollo 10 was the first moon mission
to have a color TV camera on board,
as opposed to an eight millimeter film camera.
Just as the 1969 spacecraft
was heading into the dark side of the moon
where the crew would be out of radio contact for an hour,
they began to complain about hearing
strange music coming from somewhere.
- The music even sounds outer-spacey, doesn't it?
You hear that, that whistlin' sound?
Woo!
- They also captured an anonymous white object
flying in the opposite direction
of the command service module,
which remains unexplained.
Many argue that if it had been debris from the craft,
it would have been traveling in the same direction.
So what was it?
And why did the crew of Apollo 10 avoid the topic
of the strange music that they heard up there?
The existing audio tapes showed that this happened,
but few wish to officially acknowledge them.
Number six is Gemini 7.
Transcripts from the Gemini 7 mission in 1965
point to the tantalizing possibility
that NASA covered up an encounter
between the crew and a mysterious object.
Given that footage was filmed during Gemini 7,
this also suggests that existing film footage
of this encounter may actually exist
and has been hidden for an unknown reason.
- [Astronaut] Gemini 7 here, Houston, how do you read?
- [Mission Controller] Loud and clear, seven, go ahead.
- [Astronaut] Got a bogey at 10 o'clock high.
- [Mission Controller] This is Houston.
Say again, seven?
- [Astronaut] I said we have a bogey at 10 o'clock high.
- Astronauts aboard the Gemini 7 spacecraft
not only alerted ground crew
that there was an unusual object following them,
but they referred to it specifically as a bogey,
which is the term used in the Air Force
when describing an enemy aircraft.
While some have suggested that this enemy craft
was the booster segment of the mission,
others have declared that theory to have been debunked,
which opens the door to the possibility that Gemini 7
was being intercepted by a craft of extraterrestrial origin.
Number five are the lost years.
We have meticulous records
surrounding the NASA space program.
We know when each milestone was reached.
Whether it was the first American manned space flight,
or when Neil Armstrong first stepped onto the lunar surface,
there's film footage of it.
But some argue that this account is only half of the story,
the tip of a dark and concealed iceberg.
One theory states that alongside the public missions,
there were a series of earlier, secret ones,
which were sent to test out new technology
and explore the vastness of space.
One of the reasons put forward for this
is that the U.S. government did not want
their space program to publicly fail
during a propaganda war with the Soviet Union.
Instead, these earlier missions were carried out in secret,
no doubt filmed just as meticulously.
The question is, just what happened to those tapes?
Number four is STS-48.
STS-48 was a space shuttle mission
which launched on September 15th, 1991.
Its primary objective was to launch
an upper atmosphere research satellite.
After 81 revolutions of the Earth
and 2.2 million miles later,
the shuttle completed its mission,
but not before its cameras captured unbelievable footage.
The footage clearly shows several objects
flying in what appears to be a controlled trajectory.
This formulation was unlike anything
the astronauts had ever seen before.
One of the objects performs an about-turn
and alters its speed and direction at the same time.
This footage was soon released,
though many believe this is because
it had already been intercepted
by amateur decoders on the ground.
Several explanations
for the STS-48 footage have been proposed,
but none of them have been robust enough
to remove the mystery.
Number three is the Mars redacted footage.
It's difficult to understand why space exploration stalled
for so long after Apollo 17.
Space technology had progressed quickly,
taking humanity from unmanned space satellites
to standing on the moon in a short time.
The official explanation is
that public interest in the space race fell,
and so investment in it dried up.
However, there are rumors of secret missions
which took place after Apollo 17.
One of the most infamous
is a rumored mission to Mars itself.
Whispers continue that NASA crews
traveled to the Red Planet,
taking with them
a variety of experiments and camera equipment.
Some of this has been leaked online
with out-of-focus film footage
allegedly showing the crew in orbit.
Of course, NASA denies this, but nevertheless,
if they did indeed go secretly to Mars,
what did they find there?
Number two is the engineer's archive.
In 2005, a man whose identity was protected passed away.
In his basement, his wife found 325 data reels
and two huge computers dating back
to the early space program through the 1970s.
Over 100 of the tapes were labeled,
and some of the labeling remains a mystery.
For example, one tape covered data
from the Pioneer 11 mission,
which launched in 1973.
But this tape was labeled from 1972.
The serial numbers on the two computers
could also not be traced.
They could not be found in any record,
as though they came from a classified NASA project.
It's common knowledge that NASA taped over
many tapes from important missions,
so you would think that they would
want to know what was on them.
Instead, they destroyed all of the tapes
without releasing any further information about them.
And number one is the alien moon base.
There would be no more manned expeditions to the moon
after the early 1970s.
And yet many believe those missions continued,
for a while at least.
The reason those subsequent missions were not made public
was because NASA had discovered an alien base on the moon.
Whether inhabited or not is unclear,
but supporters of this theory
have identified footage taken from moon orbit
as well as a controversial piece of footage
showing astronauts exploring the alien structure on foot
in a classified mission
as definitive proof that NASA is hiding something.
Others believe this footage has been released
in order to muddy the waters and discredit anyone
who claims that there is a structure of some sort
on the lunar surface.
Whatever the truth, officials remain tight-lipped
about what's really going on up there.