GARY MCKINNON UFO HACKER

Gary McKinnon as many may recall was the fellow who decided to have a look around some U.S. Government computers in his quest to research UFO. Unfortnately for Gary he did not have permission to conduct this research and he very nearly ended up in a super max prison for the next several decades.

In an interview with wired.com from 2006 he talks about what he saw:

WN: Did you find anything in your search for evidence of UFOs? 

McKinnon: Certainly did. There is The Disclosure Project. This is a book with 400 testimonials from everyone from air traffic controllers to those responsible for launching nuclear missiles. Very credible witnesses. They talk about reverse-(engineered) technology taken from captured or destroyed alien craft. 

WN: Like the Roswell incident of 1947? 

McKinnon: I assume that was the first and assume there have been others. These relied-upon people have given solid evidence. 

WN: What sort of evidence?

 McKinnon: A NASA photographic expert said that there was a Building 8 at Johnson Space Center where they regularly airbrushed out images of UFOs from the high-resolution satellite imaging. I logged on to NASA and was able to access this department. They had huge, high-resolution images stored in their picture files. They had filtered and unfiltered, or processed and unprocessed, files. My dialup 56K connection was very slow trying to download one of these picture files. As this was happening, I had remote control of their desktop, and by adjusting it to 4-bit color and low screen resolution, I was able to briefly see one of these pictures. It was a silvery, cigar-shaped object with geodesic spheres on either side. There were no visible seams or riveting. There was no reference to the size of the object and the picture was taken presumably by a satellite looking down on it. The object didn't look manmade or anything like what we have created. Because I was using a Java application, I could only get a screenshot of the picture – it did not go into my temporary internet files. At my crowning moment, someone at NASA discovered what I was doing and I was disconnected. I also got access to Excel spreadsheets. One was titled "Non-Terrestrial Officers." It contained names and ranks of U.S. Air Force personnel who are not registered anywhere else. It also contained information about ship-to-ship transfers, but I've never seen the names of these ships noted anywhere else.

WN: Could this have been some sort of military strategy game or outline of hypothetical situations? 

McKinnon: The military want to have military dominance of space. What I found could be a game – it's hard to know for certain. 

WN: Some say that you have given the UFO motivation for your hacking as a distraction from more nefarious activities. 

McKinnon: I was looking before and after 9/11. If I had wanted to distract anyone, I would not have chosen ufology, as this opens me up to ridicule. 

WN: Tell me about your experiences with law enforcement and the procedures you have gone through. 

McKinnon: I was arrested by the British National Hi Tech Crime Unit in March 2002. They held me in custody for about six or seven hours. My own computer and ones I was fixing for other people were taken away. The other machines were eventually returned, but they kept my hard drive that was sent to the U.S. It was November 2002 when the U.S. Department of Justice started their efforts to extradite me. 

WN: The British Crown Prosecution Service dropped charges against you because your activities did not involve British computers.

 McKinnon: I was to be officially charged in 2003 but a warrant wasn't given until 2004.... In June or July 2005, I was scooped from the street by Scotland Yard. I was kept at Belgravia Police Station overnight. I just wore what I had on when I was out; I didn't get a chance to wear a suit in court. I was given police bail.

You may be wondering how someone could so easily hack into these U.S. Government data bases. From mysteriousuniverse.com  we are informed:

 Author and journalist Jon Ronson said of McKinnon: “Basically, what Gary was looking for – and found time and again – were network administrators within high levels of the U.S. government and military establishments  who hadn’t bothered to give themselves passwords. That’s how he got in.”

If our government is that incompetent  and that careless with top secret UFO data it certainly gives one pause to think that they should be trusted with UFO meta-material or any of the related technology.

From what I could find about McKinnon's legal situation the UK has refused to turn him over to the Americans and he is a free man in his home country. However it my be a good idea for him to stay away for the U.S., those deepstaters can be mighty vengeful.