Gary McKinnon’s search for evidence of the existence of UFOs has gotten this 40 year old British hacker into trouble. McKinnon delved deeply into U.S. government computer networks across a range of agencies through relatively mundane gaps in security and blank administrator passwords. He would access one computer, install software which would allow him to take remote control over it and then access other computers in the network. He accessed NASA and Air Force computers where he saw many things of course, but he found a list of “non-terrestrial officers”. Many researchers believe that the U.S. has had relationships with aliens for some time and had an exchange program where 12 military personnel went to live on an alien planet, under the name of Project Serpo. McKinnon has not revealed if he found actual information on this. His hacking occurred from February 2001 until March 2002.
McKinnon was also looking for information concerning the Donna Hare story. Donna Hare, a NASA photo technician, went public a few years back and insisted that NASA was retouching photos of the moon’s surface and removing anomalies such as flying saucers. She said this photo retouching took place in Johnson Space Center’s building 8.
McKinnon did hack into building 8 computers and found a vast number of photos, lending some claim to Hare’s story. Each file was 300 MB and he had a slow dial up modem. As he was trying to access the first photo, the Space Center’s security detected his intrusion and cut his network connection.
Hugh Cornwell’s "Guide for Hackers" inspired him and his interest in the U.S. secrets concerning alien spacecraft and high technology led him to NASA’s site. McKinnon claims he found documents of 400 testimonies of UFOs. According to Gary claims he saw reports of flight controllers and persons in charge of controlling nuclear missiles and their unusual encounters with UFOs. The reports also contained information that up-to-date technology which came from the UFOs was either taken or destroyed.
According to Nasa, McKinnon also saw military secrets, operations and other NASA affairs. McKinnon is due to be extradited to the U.S. and could face a a 70 year prison sentence.
