Gary McKinnon, who prosecutors said committed “the biggest military computer hack of all time,” claims he has seen UFO images and “non-terrestrial” data in U.S. government files.
The British computer hacker was accused of breaching 97 United States government websites in 2002. McKinnon was facing 70 years in prison for the hack, but the United Kingdom blocked his extradition.
Fast forward to this week and McKinnon is spilling the beans to the American Alchemy podcast with Jesse Michels about some of what he saw in those U.S. government files.
McKinnon claims he saw a cigar-shaped UFO in one image
One image he claims to have discovered was a high-resolution image of a cigar-shaped UFO hovering in the sky.
“The first one I looked at was the one where I saw the picture, and so I double-clicked this, but it was very, very slow. I was on a 56k dial-up, and I was just thinking, ‘My god, this is my eureka moment,” he recalled.
“Then there’s like slowly a hemisphere started appearing, and I’m thinking that’s a planet. What the hell? And then suddenly there’s a big, straight, kind of silvery line, cigar- shaped object.
“I see the mouse move, and someone else is at the computer themselves. They right-clicked, disconnected, and boom, that was it. I was cut out.”
He also saw a spreadsheet titled ‘non-terrestrial officers’
Additionally, he says he saw a spreadsheet titled “non-terrestrial officers,” which implies the people on it were not from Earth. He said the spreadsheet “had ship names… and… fleet-to-fleet transfers.” The spreadsheet also included sections for identities, ship names, and material transfers, suggesting several ships and structured activities.
He claimed that shortly after the discovery, someone seemed to take over his screen. “They disconnected with a right-click, and that was it. I was cut out,” McKinnon remembered.
Gary McKinnon added that he was very surprised at how easy it was to infiltrate the U.S. government websites, especially NASA’s systems. A lot has changed since 2022 when it comes to the internet.
How he was able to infiltrate so many US government sites
“I wrote a Perl script. Perl is a program extraction reporting language, just a scripting language,” McKinnon explained. “And that I could run that across thousands of machines in minutes and find blank passwords or passwords that were either blank or password admin, a basic list.
“When you do like wide-scale fishing like that, you know some fish bite. And that was my basic method to getting entrance to these places. And so some of these extremely sensitive American military sites had blank passwords big time.”
He said his list of websites all came from the Disclosure Project book by Steven Greer. Additionally, he used a list of possible UFO secrecy sites that was circulating via a hackers’ network document.
McKinnon said he could scan around a quarter of a million computers in just eight minutes. Among them were sites at the NSA, NASA, Fort Meade, Defense Information Systems Agency, and Department of Defense networks, as well as basic Army, Navy, and Air Force networks.
When he searched NASA’s network for computers assigned to Building 8, he encountered a proprietary NASA image format that required running specialized software to view.
“There’s like blackness, then there’s like slowly a hemisphere started appearing, and I’m thinking that’s a planet,” he said. “This thing looked very smooth on the outside. There were no lines… no screws and bolts and stuff.”
While certainly intriguing, there is no way for him to know for sure if the object was extraterrestrial. “It wasn’t your normal space stuff,” he said.