
Originally Posted by
Sticks

Originally Posted by
Mr Gorsky
That's easy.
The big question I would have with that is ... why would they do that? NASA is constantly talking about the potential for life on other planets and getting all excited when they find evidence of water anywhere.
If they found concrete (or crystal!) evidence of intelligent life on the moon, why on earth would they want to hide it?
According to Hoagland, in his two volume series,
The Moon Mars connection there was some document that expressed the concern as to how the evidence of extra-terrestrial life might cause problems with certain religious fundamentalist groups.
There's a document called the Brookings Report that was written when NASA was first formed. It's a very long document covering at length the implications of civilian space exploration. There are, I think, two mentions in there that the discovery of intelligent extraterrestrial life could be upsetting to certain establishments of our civilization. The woo-woos have latched onto this as evidence that NASA would cover up any such finding, even though they're the only ones who even seem to remember the Brookings Report any more.
Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.