When Gary McKinnon decided to try to find secret UFO files, he did what any curious computer expert would do: He hacked into nearly 100 military and NASA computers until he was finally caught. Eight years later, the Scottish systems administrator awaits his legal fate.
As controversy swirls around WikiLeaks, the website that this week released secret diplomatic cables without authorization, one of the documents in question contains information about McKinnon, whose lengthy extradition case still has the U.K. buzzing, The Guardian newspaper reports.
McKinnon, 44, who suffers from Asperger's syndrome -- an autism disorder that can lead to obsessive behavior -- is accused of illegally gaining access to military files. He's never denied his unauthorized hacking activities between February 2001 and March 2002. After he was caught in 2002, he was charged with hacking into the Army, Navy, Air Force, Defense Department and NASA computers.
He has steadfastly stuck to the same story: that he was looking for secret files about UFOs, extraterrestrials, anti-gravity technology and evidence of free-energy sources that could presumably be used by everybody on Earth.
I was in search of suppressed technology, laughingly referred to as UFO technology, McKinnon said in a televised interview. I think it's the biggest-kept secret in the world. ... I was searching for files and evidence in relation to the UFO question.
Among the things McKinnon claims to have uncovered in his hackings was a startling image he found in a computer at the Johnson Space Center: It was a picture of something that definitely wasn't man-made. It was above the Earth's hemisphere. ... It was cigar-shaped. It had geodesic domes above, below, to the left, to the right and both ends. Although it was a low-resolution picture, it was very close up.
This thing was hanging in space, the Earth's hemisphere was visible below it. [It had] no seams and none of the stuff associated with normal man-made manufacturing.
The British and U.S. governments didn't take lightly to McKinnon's unlawful pursuit, and, understandably, America wants the U.K. to extradite McKinnon for prosecution.
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As controversy swirls around WikiLeaks, the website that this week released secret diplomatic cables without authorization, one of the documents in question contains information about McKinnon, whose lengthy extradition case still has the U.K. buzzing, The Guardian newspaper reports.
McKinnon, 44, who suffers from Asperger's syndrome -- an autism disorder that can lead to obsessive behavior -- is accused of illegally gaining access to military files. He's never denied his unauthorized hacking activities between February 2001 and March 2002. After he was caught in 2002, he was charged with hacking into the Army, Navy, Air Force, Defense Department and NASA computers.
He has steadfastly stuck to the same story: that he was looking for secret files about UFOs, extraterrestrials, anti-gravity technology and evidence of free-energy sources that could presumably be used by everybody on Earth.
I was in search of suppressed technology, laughingly referred to as UFO technology, McKinnon said in a televised interview. I think it's the biggest-kept secret in the world. ... I was searching for files and evidence in relation to the UFO question.
Among the things McKinnon claims to have uncovered in his hackings was a startling image he found in a computer at the Johnson Space Center: It was a picture of something that definitely wasn't man-made. It was above the Earth's hemisphere. ... It was cigar-shaped. It had geodesic domes above, below, to the left, to the right and both ends. Although it was a low-resolution picture, it was very close up.
This thing was hanging in space, the Earth's hemisphere was visible below it. [It had] no seams and none of the stuff associated with normal man-made manufacturing.
The British and U.S. governments didn't take lightly to McKinnon's unlawful pursuit, and, understandably, America wants the U.K. to extradite McKinnon for prosecution.
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Full story: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/british-ufo-hacker-fights-extradition-to-us/19740577
