Social Media Scares about Voyager 2
- Fran Ridge
- 5 days ago
- 3 min read
By Fran Ridge
Voyager 2 Just Sent THIS Transmission From Beyond — And It’s Horrifying
Short answer: yeah, it’s very likely mostly BS and definitely designed to make money off YouTube views.
Here’s why.
1. What the video claims vs what NASA actually says
The description floating around with that title says things like:
“After 45 years of silence, Voyager 2 sent a signal back from beyond the solar system — structured, rhythmic, and impossible to explain.”
Reality check:
Voyager 2 has never been “silent” for 45 years. It’s been sending normal engineering and science data continuously since launch in 1977 (minus brief glitches). NASA tracks this openly. NASA Science+1
In July–August 2023, NASA temporarily lost contact with Voyager 2 because of a wrong command that pointed its antenna away from Earth. They regained contact a week later and published a sober little update about it—no “horrifying” mystery, just routine deep-space ops. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)+2Sky & Telescope+2
In 2025, the big Voyager-2 news is NASA slowly turning off instruments to conserve power so the mission can keep going into the 2030s. Again, totally normal end-of-mission housekeeping, nothing about strange alien transmissions. NASA Science+2Sky at Night Magazine+2
If Voyager 2 had really sent some spooky, structured, inexplicable transmission “from beyond,” it would not be only in a highly dramatized YouTube video. You’d see it:
On NASA / JPL’s official Voyager pages
In mainstream science/news outlets (AP, Reuters, major newspapers, etc.)
In peer-reviewed discussions or at least serious astronomy forums
None of those show anything like what the video is selling. They only show normal technical updates and that 2023 communication hiccup. NASA Spaceflight Forum+3NASA Science+3NASA Science+3
2. The YouTube pattern you’re noticing
Your video is part of a whole ecosystem of channels with almost identical titles:
They recycle:
The same NASA images and B-roll
A spooky narrator
Vague phrases like “scientists are baffled,” “no one can explain this,” “this changes everything”
No links to actual NASA releases, tech papers, or named scientists
That’s classic clickbait / ad-revenue behavior. The goal is time-watched, likes, and ad money, not accuracy.
3. How to sanity-check this kind of thing
A quick checklist you can use anytime:
“If this were real, who else is talking about it?”
Check NASA/JPL, ESA, or other space agencies.
Check at least one serious news outlet or astronomy mag.
Look for specifics.
Are any actual scientists named?
Is there a paper, a press release, a mission log, or just spooky narration?
Watch for language.
Lots of “terrifying,” “horrifying,” “the world wasn’t ready” = entertainment, not science.
Your Voyager-2 video fails all three tests.
4. So what’s real about Voyager 2?
Launched in 1977, visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. NASA Science+1
Entered interstellar space in 2018 and is now over 12 billion miles from Earth, still returning valuable data on magnetic fields and particles. NASA Science+1
NASA is gradually shutting down instruments to stretch power from the RTG as long as possible. NASA Science+1
All of that is already amazing without needing a horror-movie script.
Bottom line
Yes, this video is almost certainly a dramatized, fictionalized story built on small kernels of mundane truth (like the 2023 comms glitch) and pumped up with spooky narration.
Yes, it’s very likely just a way to farm views and ad revenue, not a genuine scientific report.
Straightforward Explanation of What’s Really Going On With Voyager 2
Despite the dramatic claims circulating on YouTube, Voyager 2 has not sent any strange, frightening, or unexplained transmissions from interstellar space. NASA still communicates with the spacecraft normally, and every update they’ve released shows routine engineering and end-of-mission power management—not emergencies or mysterious signals. The only notable issue in recent years was a brief communication glitch in 2023 when the antenna was accidentally pointed a bit off-Earth, and NASA corrected that within days. Voyager 2 continues sending standard scientific data about space plasma and magnetic fields, the same kind of information it has returned for decades. In short, none of the alarming stories online are supported by NASA, the scientific community, or any verified source; they are simply sensationalized YouTube content made to generate views, not a real discovery.
Fran Ridge is the Director and MADAR Operations Officer
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