NASA's Unexplained Files
TV Show · Documentary

Since the launch of the manned space program over 50 years ago, cameras aboard NASA spacecrafts have captured hundreds of objects, the nature of which cannot properly be explained. NASA’S UNEXPLAINED FILES expands on some of the strangest unexplained happenings on record – all of which were caught on camera.

2014 · 43m
Starring Erik Dellums

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    Pilot
    An attempt to explain some of the odd shapes and lights that have been captured on NASA's cameras.
    43 min
  • EPISODE 1
    Pluto Under Pressure
    Lost tapes show that Apollo astronauts heard unexplained transmissions on the far side of the moon; an amateur astronomer finds an odd disturbance in Martian atmosphere; an unidentified object in Earth orbit starts stalking Russian spacecraft.
    41 min
  • EPISODE 2
    Return of the Moon Bugs
    Apollo 12 astronauts bring back something alive from the moon; NASA tracks an asteroid heading towards Earth but make an incredible discovery.
    41 min
  • EPISODE 3
    Rise of the Ice Creatures
    Neil Armstrong enters an unexplained spin; an Apollo 17 photo seems to show a US military outpost on the Moon; possible alien life swimming in the oceans of Jupiter's moons.
    42 min
  • EPISODE 4
    Ghosts on a Comet
    When a Chinese moon rover breaks down, a scientist at NASA points to a mysterious material that seemed to sabotage the Apollo missions decades earlier; the Rosetta spacecraft discovers a comet that appears to be singing.
    41 min
  • EPISODE 5
    The Moon that Disappeared
    Recently discovered documents show NASA's secret plan B for failure of the first moon landing; a Soyuz capsule carrying NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson back to Earth goes missing; NASA's Cassini mission unravels a three hundred year old.
    41 min

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Cast & Crew

  • E‌D
    Erik Dellums
    Narrator
  • G‌C
    Greg Chivers
    Producer
  • M‌D
    Martin Durkin
    Producer
  • W‌C
    Wyatt Channell
    Producer

About

NASA's Unexplained Files

Documentary

Since the launch of the manned space program over 50 years ago, cameras aboard NASA spacecrafts have captured hundreds of objects, the nature of which cannot properly be explained. NASA’S UNEXPLAINED FILES expands on some of the strangest unexplained happenings on record – all of which were caught on camera.

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Dmax
Released
2014
© 2012 Discovery Communications Inc.

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