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The Worst Episodes of NASA's Unexplained Files

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The Worst Episodes of NASA's Unexplained Files

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    NASA's Unexplained Files Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot
    6.2/10(27 votes)

    #1 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    Strange flying objects have been caught on NASA’s cameras and astronauts have reported seeing UFOs. Some can be identified; others remain a mystery. We’ll reveal NASA footage and interview the astronauts and scientists.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 1 Episode 3 - Alien Death Ray
    6.3/10(42 votes)

    #2 - Alien Death Ray

    S1:E3

    The Viking Lander may have found life on Mars, so why don’t we know about it? What is the most destructive force in the universe? How could a starship be seen in the Aurora Borealis? And what are NASA’s mysterious Moon Pigeons?

    Director:Unknown
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  3. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 1 Episode 5 - Interstellar Gold Rush
    6.7/10(36 votes)

    #3 - Interstellar Gold Rush

    S1:E5

    A distant planet shows evidence of an Earth-like atmosphere, while a mysterious light suggests an atmosphere on the Moon. Have we found evidence of a crashed alien ship in the asteroid belt? Why are there "blueberries" on Mars?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 2 Episode 3 - Hammer of Thor
    6.7/10(27 votes)

    #4 - Hammer of Thor

    S2:E3

    Are burning lights above Nevada and Utah signs of a secret space weapons project? What are the odd trails on the lunar surface near the Apollo landing sites? Does a strange space object spell disaster for the Space Shuttle crew?

    Director:Unknown
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  5. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 6 Episode 7 - Planet of the Metal Aliens
    6.7/10(25 votes)

    #5 - Planet of the Metal Aliens

    S6:E7

    Experts investigate if a nearby exoplanet could be the home to a alien civilization of strange, metallic monsters, after a new discovery confirms that life can thrive on such a strange world.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 1 Episode 2 - Shadow Deathstar
    6.8/10(18 votes)

    #6 - Shadow Deathstar

    S1:E2

    Astronaut Leroy Chao’s spacewalk is interrupted by bright lights flying past. A flying saucer photographed from the Apollo capsule, dark shapes caught on camera shadowing the shuttle. The ideas are science fiction, but the incidents are science fact.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 2 Episode 2 - Top Secret Terror
    6.8/10(26 votes)

    #7 - Top Secret Terror

    S2:E2

    Was the Moon landing faked? Images of Mercury reveal massive spider-like formations on its surface. Is it a geological formation or something ominous? A classified Space Shuttle mission ends in near-disaster. What was its mission?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 6 Episode 1 - Saturn's Moon Monsters
    6.8/10(24 votes)

    #8 - Saturn's Moon Monsters

    S6:E1

    When NASA discovers something strange on Saturn's biggest moon, experts investigate if aliens feeding on the electric atmosphere could be the culprit. The disturbing evidence points to a grisly apocalypse if these monsters ever make it to Earth.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 1 Episode 4 - Black Knight Rises
    6.9/10(35 votes)

    #9 - Black Knight Rises

    S1:E4

    A chunk of the sun appears to have vanished. An ominous dark craft beneath the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Hubble spots thousands of unidentified objects traveling faster than light. Are we being watched?

    Director:Unknown
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  10. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 1 Episode 6 - Ghosts on the Moon
    6.9/10(14 votes)

    #10 - Ghosts on the Moon

    S1:E6

    Could spaceships be powered by atomic bombs? Can artificial rings encircle an entire star? why was Neil Armstrong’s transmission feed cut off when he spotted strange lights on the Moon? And how can lightning talk to itself?

    Director:Unknown
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  11. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 1 Episode 7 - Mystery Space Squid
    6.9/10(10 votes)

    #11 - Mystery Space Squid

    S1:E7

    What could make a NASA astronaut report seeing a flying saucer in the skies above a US Air Force test range? How have the swirling gases of Saturn formed a perfect Hexagon that has hovered above the planet’s pole for 30 years?

    Director:Unknown
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  12. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 2 Episode 1 - Life in Hell
    6.9/10(23 votes)

    #12 - Life in Hell

    S2:E1

    A UFO crashes in Pennsylvania. Was it a secret Soviet satellite or something far more dangerous? On Mercury, NASA finds the impossible: frozen water. A strange object causes a skyscraper-sized shadow on the surface of Mars's largest moon. What is it?

    Director:Unknown
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  13. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 2 Episode 4 - Spacewalk of Doom
    6.9/10(28 votes)

    #13 - Spacewalk of Doom

    S2:E4

    How could an astronaut on a spacewalk begin to drown? Have NASA scientists discovered an asteroid that was converted into a spacecraft? What are the strange objects spotted when NASA sends a secret payload into space?

    Director:Unknown
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  14. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 2 Episode 5 - Did We Nuke Jupiter?
    6.9/10(28 votes)

    #14 - Did We Nuke Jupiter?

    S2:E5

    Could NASA be responsible for a nuclear explosion on Jupiter? Could new evidence finally solve the mystery of the iconic face on Mars? What unknown force crashed a spacecraft from the Apollo program into the lunar surface?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3 Episode 2 - Return of the Moon Bugs
    6.9/10(31 votes)

    #15 - Return of the Moon Bugs

    S3:E2

    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:Unknown
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  16. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3 Episode 3 - Rise of the Ice Creatures
    6.9/10(28 votes)

    #16 - Rise of the Ice Creatures

    S3:E3

    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:Unknown
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  17. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 4 Episode 5 - Curse of the Full Moon
    6.9/10(23 votes)

    #17 - Curse of the Full Moon

    S4:E5

    Two cosmonauts fight for their lives while trapped inside a capsule in a frozen lake. A NASA scientist investigates the deadly Nazi secret that doomed the Hindenburg. NASA astronomers are spooked when the full moon starts affecting their experiments.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 6 Episode 5 - Aliens in the Amazon
    6.9/10(24 votes)

    #18 - Aliens in the Amazon

    S6:E5

    After Neil Armstrong's moonwalk, he led an expedition to the Amazon to find a legendary library that holds all knowledge of an advanced alien civilization. Experts ask if a close encounter on the moon's surface inspired Armstrong's mysterious quest.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 6 Episode 6 - Secrets of the Alien Signals
    6.9/10(26 votes)

    #19 - Secrets of the Alien Signals

    S6:E6

    When NASA begins a strange experiment to communicate with dolphins, experts investigate if it's a prelude to making alien contact. But some fear that such a discovery could have apocalyptic consequences.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 2 Episode 7 - Lethal Weapons
    7.0/10(21 votes)

    #20 - Lethal Weapons

    S2:E7

    How did pictures from the Hubble telescope make the comet of the century look like an alien spacecraft? Has earth already been invaded by alien organisms? What mysterious force is smashing a near-earth asteroid to pieces?

    Director:Unknown
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  21. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 2 Episode 8 - Revenge of the Fireflies
    7.0/10(27 votes)

    #21 - Revenge of the Fireflies

    S2:E8

    Something in space is attacking the brains of astronauts. What is it? Should NASA be worried about the sudden appearance of so-called space fireflies? Who is responsible for the bizarre glowing spiral in the skies over Norway?

    Director:Unknown
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  22. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3 Episode 4 - Ghosts on a Comet
    7.0/10(26 votes)

    #22 - Ghosts on a Comet

    S3:E4

    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:Unknown
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  23. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 3 Episode 5 - The Moon that Disappeared
    7.0/10(27 votes)

    #23 - The Moon that Disappeared

    S3:E5

    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:Unknown
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  24. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 4 Episode 1 - Pluto's Stranger Things
    7.0/10(26 votes)

    #24 - Pluto's Stranger Things

    S4:E1

    Astronomers find evidence for incredible alien technology around a distant star. The first pictures of Pluto may show something moving across its surface. Apollo astronauts see something they can't explain as they approach the Moon.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. NASA's Unexplained Files Season 6 Episode 4 - Pluto's Evil Twin
    7.0/10(22 votes)

    #25 - Pluto's Evil Twin

    S6:E4

    After NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flies by Pluto, it encounters a strange alien world that shuts down the probe's computers, and experts investigate if this mysterious object is an alien spacecraft hiding at the edge of our solar system.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Pilot" is the worst rated episode of "NASA's Unexplained Files". It scored 6.2/10 based on 27 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/27/2012. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Alien Death Ray".