Hacker claims US government has UFO photos and list of ‘non-terrestrial officers’

A Scottish hacker accused of carrying out the ‘biggest military computer hack of all time’ on the US government has revealed what he found.

Gary McKinnon, 60, rummaged through 97 US army and authorities websites in the early 1990s from his girlfriend’s aunt’s flat in London.

In an interview on American Alchemy with Jesse Michels aired yesterday, McKinnon said he was hunting for evidence of a UFO cover-up.

One low-quality image he saw showed a shape, ‘a big straight kind of silvery line… cigar-shaped object… smooth… no lines’, above Earth.

He said the image loaded line by line as his dial-up internet struggled, explaining: ‘There’s like blackness, then there’s like slowly a hemisphere started appearing, and I’m thinking that’s a planet.

‘This thing looked very smooth on the outside. There were no lines… no screws and bolts and stuff.’

McKinnon added: ‘It wasn’t your normal space stuff, so I knew that.’

While scrolling, he alleged that his mouse was suddenly hijacked, saying: ‘They right-clicked, disconnected and boom, that was it. I was cut out.’

He also found a spreadsheet labelled ‘nonterrestrial officers’, referring to something that does not originate from Earth, McKinnon claimed.

He added: ‘It had ship names… and… fleet-to-fleet transfers.’

McKinnon also claimed found testimony from former NASA contractor Donna Hare saying she was shown an image of a disc over Earth.

Such anomalies are scrubbed clean from any images released to the public, Hare said, according to McKinnon.

McKinnon quoted one of her colleagues saying: ‘Well, we always have to airbrush them out before we sell them to the public.’

Nasa has been approached for comment.

Hacking, McKinnon said, isn’t quite being hunched over a computer in a hoodie.

‘I was in my dressing gown up till like four in the morning, smoking weed, drinking beer, just like ride of my life really,’ he said, adding he used a 56k dial-up modem.

McKinnon had spent years interested in UFOs and other space-age tech, like pollution free energy, after seeing an ‘orange light’ in the sky as a child.

Inspired by the Disclosure Project book by Steven Greer, he decided to try to pry open secretive government systems for evidence in March 2001.

McKinnon was arrested by police at his flat in Wood Green, north London, in March 2002, with investigators acting on allegations from the US.

American authorities said that McKinnon hacked into US army, navy, air force, Department of Defense and Nasa computers 16.

This caused £487,000 worth of damage to computers in 2001 and 2002, officials said.

If he was convicted, McKinnon could have spent 70 years behind bars only for an extradition order to be blocked by then-prime minister, Theresa May, on human rights grounds.

McKinnon, known as ‘Solo’ online, stressed he never acted with malicious intent and positioned himself as a truth-seeker. He admitted to obtaining unauthorised access to US government computer systems.

Asked by Michels why he did this, McKinnon said: ‘I wanted it from the horse’s mouth. I didn’t want to just believe.

‘I wanted to know.’

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