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"I got one picture out of the folder, and he'd used his email address to download a FORMER US MILITARY bearing in mind this is a 56k dial-up, so a remote access administration program. INTELLIGENCE ANALYST SPEAKS very slow Internet connection in dial-up "God knows why I used my real email OUT ON UFOs days, using the remote control programme! address," he says. "I suppose it means I'm Brian Vike, Director of HBCC UFO turned the colour down to 4-bit colour and not a secretive, sophisticated, checking- Research in Canada, advises he was the screen resolution really, really low, and myself-every-step-of-the-way type of granted permission to post the following even then the picture was still juddering as _ hacker." letter in its entirety and leave in any names. it came onto the screen. But he hints that whatever happens, he Following is a slightly edited version of "But what came onto the screen was has a lot more to tell. "I can't talk about a this letter. Ed. amazing. It was a culmination of all my _ lot of stuff that I found. It's just not the spent 12 years in the US Army—from efforts. It was a picture of something that _ right time," he says with a smile. [: to 1976 as an MP (military definitely wasn't man-made. policeman) working undercover for the "Tt was above the Earth's hemisphere. It The Free Gary McKinnon campaign DST (Drug Suppression Team), CID kind of looked like a satellite, but it was The next phase of his legal battle began (Criminal Investigation Division), in manufactured by no means Ihave ever seen on 10 May 2006 at Bow Street Magistrates’ Germany. Basically I travelled throughout before: there were no rivets, no seams; it Court. Germany, wearing civilian clothes and was like one flawless piece of pretending I was a former soldier who material. now resided in Germany dealing "It was cigar-shaped and had narcotics. My code-names were geodesic domes above, below, to " . Q ' "Porkchops" and "Frisco", the left, the right and both ends of l found a list of officers depending on what part of Germany it, and although it was a low- i I was at. resolution picture it was very close Helles under the heading I went after what was known as up. Non-Terrestrial Officers pen the "Khaki Mafia" that originated in "This thing was hanging in i Vietnam. The erpetrators space, the Earth's hemisphere What I saw made me believe recognised me because T vas known visible below it, and no rivets, no they have some kind of to wear a black trench coat, seams, none of the stuff associated i 7 " sunglasses and dark clothes, and at with normal man-made spaceship, off planet. the time I was sporting a beard and manufacturing." moustache. But before this excitement took place, I was in Ft The hacker's downfall Jackson, South Carolina, in 1974 on Gary McKinnon was hacking in a training exercise. the immediate aftermath of the events of The district judge ruled that McKinnon One night, two other soldiers and I were September 11, 2001, but only because he — should be recommended for extradition to in Columbia, South Carolina, checking out wanted to see if there was a conspiracy. the United States to face trial for hacking _ the sights, and we looked up at the sky and "Why did the building fall like a into sensitive computer networks and saw six glowing blue discs in formation. controlled series of explosions?" he asks. systems. As we watched, the UFOs dispersed in "I hate conspiracy theories, so I thought I'd The decision now rests with the British erratically zig-zagging movements and find out for myself." Home Secretary, John Reid, who has three disappeared quickly. McKinnon strenuously denies the Justice months to decide whether to approve the The first thing that came out of one Department's charge that he caused the "US __ extradition request. soldier's mouth was, "Geese?" We looked military district of Washington" to become McKinnon's solicitor is proposing to at him and said, "No way!" That was my "inoperable". Well, once, he admits, but appeal to the US Secretary of State and, if first time experiencing a UFO encounter, only once: he inadvertently pressed the _ refused, will then appeal to the High Court and it stayed with me for a long, long time. wrong button and may have deleted some _ for a decision to allow Gary to be tried in In September 1976, I had another UFO government files. the UK as a British citizen. encounter. This time I was out of the army McKinnon was caught in November Friends and supporters of Gary and living with my former girlfriend, Helen 2002. He says it was inevitable because he McKinnon fear he will not get a fair trial if Lang, in an apartment. One night she was "getting a bit sloppy". "I'd never have he does end up in the USA. A blog came running back inside the apartment, envisaged this happening to myself, but 1 website, http://FreeGary.org.uk, has been screaming. I asked her what was wrong. did get a bit megalomaniacal as well. It got set up to support the campaign for She said that a UFO was hovering 200 feet a bit silly. I ended up talking to people I McKinnon to be tried in the UK. co above her head. I didn't see anything. hacked into... I'd instant-message them, (Sources: Compiled from articles by Jon I noticed she was hysterically crying. I using WordPad, with a bit of a political | Ronson in The Guardian, UK, 9 July 2005; drove her to the Sacramento Sheriff's diatribe. You know, I'd leave a message on by Michael Holden for Reuters, 27 April Department and they had her use their their desktop that read, 'Secret government 2006; by Spencer Kelly for BBC News, 5 phone to dial an 800 number to call Dr is blah blah blah’." May 2006; and by Mark Ward for BBC Allen Hynek of the Chicago, Illinois, McKinnon was tracked down because News, 10 May 2006) Bureau of UFO Investigations. he'd used his email address to download a remote access administration program. "God knows why I used my real email address," he says. "I suppose it means I'm not a secretive, sophisticated, checking- myself-every-step-of-the-way type of hacker." But he hints that whatever happens, he has a lot more to tell. "I can't talk about a lot of stuff that I found. It's just not the right time," he says with a smile. The Free Gary McKinnon campaign The next phase of his legal battle began on 10 May 2006 at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court. names, under the heading _'Non-Terrestrial Officers’... The district judge ruled that McKinnon should be recommended for extradition to the United States to face trial for hacking into sensitive computer networks and JUNE — JULY 2006 NEXUS +63 "| found a list of officers’ What | saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet." www.nexusmagazine.com