Boeing’s Starliner began making a repeating ‘pulsing’ sound yesterday

US astronaut Barry Wilmore known as NASA floor crew on Saturday, asking for assist with a repetitive knocking sound that was coming from the Boeing Starliner craft. The interplay was captured by a NASA House Flight discussion board member, who included a recording of it in a post that was spotted by Ars Technica.

Within the recording, Wilmore asks NASA crew in Houston to configure their name in order that he might present them the noise, which he says is coming from the speaker inside Starliner. Then, a repetitive clanging sound with slight there’s-something-on-the-wing vibes will be heard. The Earthside crew member describes it as sounding “virtually like a sonar ping.”

The mysterious sound might very effectively have a really mundane rationalization, just like the very particular sort of suggestions loop one person on Reddit compared it to. On the very least, neither Wilmore nor the NASA floor staff member he spoke with appeared significantly involved (even when it does type of resemble the unnerving Ganado theme from Resident Evil 4).

Boeing’s Starliner is at present scheduled to undock on September 6th for an automatic, uncrewed return to Earth, leaving its authentic supposed passengers, Wilmore and fellow astronaut Sunita Williams, behind on the ISS until early next year.