Conspiracy

UFO hacker Gary McKinnon found files referencing 'non-terrestrial officers'

By T.K. Randall
March 4, 2026 ·  10 comments

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Credit: Colin via Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (adapted) It was one of the most hotly debated news stories of the decade and even today, more than 20 years later, questions still remain over exactly what Scottish hacker Gary McKinnon actually found.

Accessing the Internet in the early 2000s from his girlfriend's London apartment, McKinnon managed to gain access to restricted NASA and US military computers in an effort to find evidence of UFOs and extraterrestrial visitors that was being covered up by the US government.

His clandestine skills were matched only by his naivety, as when he was caught, he ended up facing demands for him to be extradited to the US to stand trial for crimes that would have most likely seen him spend the rest of his life in prison.

The case received coverage around the world and fueled extensive debates over whether McKinnon (who has Asperger's syndrome) was fit to stand trial or should be forced to go to the US.

Fortunately for him, Home Secretary Theresa May ultimately blocked his extradition.

More than two decades on, McKinnon still talks about what he found on the US government's systems.Speaking this week on American Alchemy with Jesse Michels, he described seeing images of a strange cigar-shaped vehicle that was incredibly smooth with no lines, screws or bolts.

"It wasn't your normal space stuff, so I knew that," he said.

He also found a spreadsheet containing details of 'non-terrestrial officers' - seemingly a reference to extraterrestrial entities that the US government had knowledge of.

"It had ship names... and... fleet-to-fleet transfers," he said.

Unfortunately, however, he was unable to save the files and to this day there is no evidence of them save for his word.

Then again, could such files soon be released following Trump's recent order to make such documents public ?

We may not have long to find out.

Source: Metro.co.uk | Comments (10)

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