Fake audio of the Titan sub implosion is spreading online, but the Navy will probably never release the actual audio

• Fake audio supposedly depicting the Titan sub's underwater implosion is spreading across social media.
• A spokesperson confirmed that the Navy hasn't publicly released recordings of the fatal incident.

Fake audio clips of the Titan sub imploding underwater have flooded social media, but they're fake — and it's unlikely you'll ever hear the real thing.

A spokesperson for the Navy — the military branch that reportedly first recorded the sound of the sub's suspected implosion — told Insider that the Navy has not released its audio.

And it likely never will.

"The Navy generally does not release audio to protect our tactics, techniques, and capabilities," the spokesperson told Insider. That's because publicly sharing such audio could provide enemies of the state insight into the Navy's top-secret acoustic detection systems.

The fake audio clips are racking up millions of views

The Navy wouldn't confirm that the clips circulating are fake, but a quick search on the internet shows the audio is bogus, even as the clips rack up millions of views on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok.

A viral audio clip of someone screaming has been viewed over 20 million times, but it's actually a clip from a fan-made horror video based on the "Five Nights at Freddy's" video game.

One of the most shared audio clips circulating online claims to feature a sound that the Navy itself captured. That one is really a 2013 recording of a remotely-piloted underwater vehicle's glass imploding on a dive in Canada.

Other clips are of the "banging sounds" that The US Coast Guard supposedly detected during the 4-day-long search for the missing submersible. But rescuers now say that the sub imploded within hours of entering the water on Sunday, meaning the so-called banging in the audio couldn't be from the sub.