I don't know if any of this is real. (Frankly, whenever I see the Disclosure Project's name I tend to wince and move on.) But if nothing else it's a welcome springboard for speculation: If there are ET artifacts on the Moon, what does this tell us about life in the Cosmos and, perhaps more pertinently, the ostensibly scientific nature of our space program?
And if there aren't ET artifacts on the Moon (or elsewhere in the solar neighborhood), why not? Remember Carl Sagan's estimate for visiting civilizations, throw in what we're learning about the preponderance of planets in extrasolar star systems and the prospect of confronting a Solar System utterly devoid of ET presence, whether in the form of ruins or automated facilities of some kind, begins to seem absurd.
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It's my guess that maybe a technologically advanced civilization arose billions of years ago in some distant star system. They spread out into the rest of the galaxy and left traces of their presence here and there. Today these artifacts may be found on the moon, on Mars and even on our own planet Earth. Of course, the race itself died out long before we ever emerged on the scene...
I think that the Wow! signal (see wikipedia for details) constitutes yet more evidence that we're not alone in the universe. Could the signal be coming from what's left of that vast and galaxy-wide civilization?
(BTW, I like to think that this is a "little trick" I learned here!)
It's one of those "tricks" that I think comes naturally to most genuinely curious people -- but since it doesn't sell well in a world of perceived absolutes, very few people stop to ponder the absurdity of "belief."
WMB--
Of course, some people don't get it. They see a link to a site about, say, MJ-12 and they assume I believe in a government conspiracy to hide the truth about the Roswell crash.
Greg Bishop's "Exluded Middle" mission statement sums up my take on weirdness awfully well.
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