Astronauts have seen some truly creepy things out in space! One time, a crew on the Apollo 10 mission heard strange, "outer space music" while orbiting the Moon, and it gave them chills. Then there are unexplained flashes of light that astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) report seeing, even with their eyes closed—scientists think they might be cosmic rays zipping through their retinas! Another eerie moment came when Chris Hadfield, a famous astronaut, once saw what looked like a flying object outside the ISS—but it turned out to be a chunk of frozen liquid. Still, some astronauts report seeing things that just can’t be explained, like moving lights or objects. Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me
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00:00So, astronauts always have a lot of work to do. They deal with breakdowns on the ship,
00:06go into outer space to repair something, conduct experiments, keep daily records, report about
00:12everything to the center of the Earth, and sometimes meet unknown mysterious things from
00:16outer space. Let's see which ones.
00:21So you're alone in a small spaceship. You have our big planet on one side and the boundless
00:26black space on the other. You're checking instruments, doing some astronaut things,
00:32when you hear a strange knock. Someone or something is knocking on your ship. You realize
00:38that this is impossible, but then the knocking repeats. You look out of the porthole window,
00:43but don't see anyone. Then you report the incident to the dispatcher on the ground.
00:48No one knows what it could be. You've been training your stress tolerance and psyche
00:52for many years, but now you're a little nervous.
00:58Astronaut Yang Liwei first heard a mysterious knocking sound in 2003, when he was inside
01:03a small spacecraft as part of the first Chinese space mission. Yang said the sound was like
01:09hitting an iron bucket with a wooden hammer. He also noticed that the knock came neither
01:14from the outside of the ship nor from the inside. He couldn't determine its source.
01:20When Yang returned to Earth, he tried to reproduce the knock so that experts could
01:24discover its nature. But no one managed to find out what it was. A similar story repeated
01:30itself with other Chinese astronauts in 2005 and 2008. Yang's colleagues suggested that
01:37the ship could make the sound due to the hull's expansion or compression. The temperature
01:42inside the ship was very different from the temperature in outer space, and this could
01:47cause the metal hull to make a sound similar to a knock. Hey, don't knock it!
01:55Another mysterious sound was heard by NASA astronauts on Apollo 10 while orbiting the
02:00Moon. It was a strange whistle of unknown origin. One of the astronauts described it
02:05as cosmic music. The information about this incident was classified for a long time, but
02:12recently NASA has explained the mystery. The whistling sound was just some radio interference.
02:19But it doesn't mean there are no creepy sounds in space. NASA has launched many research
02:24probes into the boundless depths of space. One probe recorded the sounds of Jupiter,
02:29another the sounds of Saturn. The third probe recorded dust particles and small rocks crashing
02:34into the ship. Technically, these are not sounds because sound waves cannot exist in
02:39space. The ships recorded radio emissions from various objects, and then scientists
02:44transformed these waves into sounds. And the coolest thing is that you can find all this
02:50on the Internet. There were many rumors and legends about Neil
02:55Armstrong and his landing on the Moon. One of the most popular myths tells how the astronaut
03:01saw strange spaceships on the Moon. The astronaut never commented on this case,
03:09and his testimony and the data he gave to the Communication Center on Earth was classified.
03:15But according to the legend, Armstrong said creepy words when he was on the Earth satellite
03:20and saw something. These babies were huge, sir! Enormous! You wouldn't believe it! I'm
03:25telling you, there are other spacecraft out here, lined up on the far side of the crater's
03:30edge. They're on the Moon watching us! After that, he returned to the spaceship and flew
03:35to Earth. Yep, that smells like an urban legend for sure.
03:43In 2005, the commander of the International Space Station, Leroy Chao, saw strange lights
03:49during a spacewalk. He described them as a set of white lights that rose from Earth and
03:54passed through him. His colleagues reported that it could have been an optical illusion
03:59caused by many fishing boats with searchlights along the coast of South America. Leroy saw
04:05the lights from the boats refracting and passing through his helmet. He doubted this version
04:09because he was at an altitude of 230 miles, and the boats had to have some pretty powerful
04:15lights. But the astronaut was also skeptical about the extraterrestrial origin of these
04:21lights. One of the most common mysterious phenomena
04:25associated with space is glowing lights. But sometimes people notice something more material.
04:31For example, NASA astronaut Story Musgrave saw a tube that was flying in space, moving
04:37like a snake. He suggested it was a living creature from another planet, or something
04:42like that. Of course, no one believed him. People assumed that the astronaut had seen
04:47some detached part from the ISS or a piece of space debris, like a hose or a tube. But
04:54the astronaut was sure that this tube had been moving like a living organism. However,
04:59the version with flying garbage sounds much more legit.
05:06During the Apollo 11 mission, astronauts reported strange light flashes in their eyes. The members
05:11of the Apollo 12 and 13 teams saw the same thing. The strangest thing was that they saw
05:17these flashes even with their eyes closed. After that, many astronauts reported seeing
05:22bright lights. They saw flashes before going to bed and in dark rooms. Some of them were
05:28bright and some were dim and had different colors. During spacewalks, they repeated every
05:33few minutes. Scientists conducted experiments on Earth
05:38to figure out the nature of this strange phenomenon. As a result, NASA concluded that the astronauts
05:44had seen cosmic rays of an unknown nature. Researchers suggested that the particles of
05:50these rays directly affected the receptors of the retina. The astronauts' optic nerves
05:55felt the radiation, and their brains reacted to it with light flashes.
06:01During the Gemini 4 space mission, astronaut James McDivitt saw a strange geometric object
06:07in space, similar to a tin can with a pencil sticking out of it. As soon as the media found
06:13out about it, newspapers started claiming that James had seen a ship of another civilization.
06:20Then, a few years later, the astronaut refuted this theory. He saw some photos taken inside
06:27the ship and noticed the same tin can on it. It turned out that this was the reflection
06:33of some bolts in the window pane. By the way, this was one of the many times astronauts
06:38confused the details of the ship with some weird space stuff.
06:44In 1962, astronaut John Glenn was inside the Friendship 7 spacecraft when he noticed some
06:50strange things outside. They looked like tiny glowing fireflies. Glenn immediately reported
06:56this to NASA's command post. The dispatchers didn't know how to comment on this message,
07:01so the nature of the cosmic fireflies remains unsolved.
07:06But then, almost a year later, astronomers found out what it had been. At first, they
07:12thought the fireflies were pieces of metal torn off some part of the ship. But then they
07:17realized the glowing lights were droplets of frozen liquid that shifted and cracked
07:22in outer space. One of the strangest cases in the history
07:27of early space travel occurred during the mission of the Gemini 6 spacecraft on December
07:3216, 1965. There were two astronauts, Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford, on board. They
07:38were preparing to return to Earth but saw something strange in outer space. Wally contacted
07:44the Mission Control Center and reported he was observing an unknown object similar to
07:50a satellite. It was moving from north to south somewhere in the polar orbit of the planet.
07:57The object was approaching them, and the astronauts could see the details. It was an unknown
08:02spaceship with a pilot dressed in a red suit. Wally heard through the radio that voices
08:07in the command center became tense. No one knew what it was and how to react to the unknown
08:13ship. Then, at that moment, they began to hear what sounded like music. Somehow, the
08:20song Jingle Bells started playing on the radio. Wally Schirra performed it on the harmonica,
08:26and the command center realized this was all a hoax. Schirra and Stafford cooked up this
08:32Christmas gag a few weeks before the flight. They wanted to cheer up their colleagues on
08:36Earth by saying they had seen Santa Claus in a spaceship. When Schirra finished the
08:41song, the guys from Earth relaxed and said it was too much. It's still one of the most
08:48astronauts have ever played. That's it for today! So hey, if you pacified
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