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The Best Episodes of NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3

Every episode of NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3!

Dive into the mysteries of some of NASA’s most curious missions and explore stories of engineering achievement and human endurance. Each episode offers first hand...
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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Pluto Under Pressure" is the best rated episode of "NASA's Unexplained Files" season 3. It scored 7.1/10 based on 25 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/23/2016. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Return of the Moon Bugs".

  • Pluto Under Pressure
    7.1/1025 votes

    #1 - Pluto Under Pressure

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 2/23/2016

    Lost tapes reveal that Apollo astronauts heard unexplained transmissions on the far side of the moon, an amateur astronomer spots a strange disturbance in Martian atmosphere & an unidentified object in Earth orbit starts stalking Russian spacecraft.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Return of the Moon Bugs
    6.9/1024 votes

    #2 - Return of the Moon Bugs

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 3/1/2016

    Apollo 12 astronauts bring back something alive from the moon and NASA track an asteroid heading towards Earth but make a shocking discovery: it’s not an asteroid, but an object that’s artificial in nature.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Rise of the Ice Creatures
    6.9/1022 votes

    #3 - Rise of the Ice Creatures

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 3/8/2016

    Neil Armstrong goes into an unexplained spin. He needs to figure out what’s causing it, or he faces certain death. An Apollo 17 photo seems to show a military outpost on the Moon & could there be alien life swimming in the oceans of Jupiter’s moons?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Ghosts on a Comet
    7.1/1021 votes

    #4 - Ghosts on a Comet

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 3/15/2016

    When a Chinese moon rover breaks down, a NASA scientist points to a mysterious material that seemed to sabotage the Apollo missions, decades earlier. The Rosetta spacecraft finds a comet that appears to be singing.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Moon that Disappeared
    7.0/1022 votes

    #5 - The Moon that Disappeared

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 3/22/2016

    Recently discovered documents reveal NASA's secret plan B for failure of the first moon landing, a Soyuz capsule carrying astronaut Peggy Whitson back to Earth vanishes without explanation and NASA’s Cassini mission unravels a three hundred year old.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Curse of the Red Planet
    7.7/1027 votes

    #6 - Curse of the Red Planet

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 3/29/2016

    Three cosmonauts die mysteriously as they re-enter Earth's atmosphere. A declassified document reveals a CIA plan to use a space disaster as a cover to start war and a NASA rover discovers clues that help solve a murder.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Red Storm Rising
    7.6/1024 votes

    #7 - Red Storm Rising

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 4/5/2016

    Two astronauts trapped in the vacuum of space face an agonizing death; the first close up images of Pluto reveal an alien landscape, and residents of Houston struggle to explain videos of unidentified flying lights captured above their city at night.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Attack of the Thunderballs
    7.1/1021 votes

    #8 - Attack of the Thunderballs

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 4/12/2016

    Astronauts are evacuated when a mystery object is discovered hurtling towards the ISS, a NASA secret agent goes undercover to recover missing moon rocks & scientists struggle to find answers when they find a huge void at the edge of the solar system.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A