Hacker Fears UFO Cover Up

I am quite enamoured by this story.  The little guy, gary McKinnon, versus the American Government because he managed to get caught hacking into some of their NASA servers which were running windows not fully restricted.  You can read a PDF of his charges sheet here.

The most interesting thing for me is that he was looking for evidence of UFOs and Extra-Terrestrial technology and claims he found evidence of it too!

I got one picture out of the folder, and bearing in mind this is a 56k dial-up, so a very slow internet connection, in dial-up days, using the remote control programme I turned the colour down to 4bit colour and the screen resolution really, really low, and even then the picture was still juddering as it came onto the screen.

It was above the Earth’s hemisphere. It kind of looked like a satellite. It was cigar-shaped and had geodesic domes above, below, to the left, the right and both ends of it, and although it was a low-resolution picture it was very close up.

This thing was hanging in space, the earth’s hemisphere visible below it, and no rivets, no seams, none of the stuff associated with normal man-made manufacturing.

I know this is all pure Sci-Fi and most people will dismiss reports like this but it is interesting all the same.

It reminds me of a short story I was going to write about a kid who had some terminal disease.  He was big into UFOs and Aliens and made a public appeal through the media for someone from NASA or the government to disclose to him if aliens did exist before he died.  Obviously the NASA or government people could lie or tell the truth – and that would have been one of the hooks of the story.

Good luck Mr Hacker!  You are facing the rest of your life in a prison cell…. for trying to find the truth.
Visit the Free Gary McKinnon site too.  Quite an interesting read.