Alien Jesus Collective

Wired has a new interview with Gary McKinnon, the UK hacker who broke into various US government computer and networks looking for evidence of a UFO cover up. McKinnon broke into various systems between February 2001 and his March 2002 arrest by British authorities. Although all charges were dropped in Britain, he’s now facing extradition to the US, where criminal charges could net him 70 years in prison and a $2 million fine.

McKinnon: A NASA photographic expert said that there was a Building 8 at Johnson Space Center where they regularly airbrushed out images of UFOs from the high-resolution satellite imaging. I logged on to NASA and was able to access this department. They had huge, high-resolution images stored in their picture files. They had filtered and unfiltered, or processed and unprocessed, files.

If the Wired interview only whets your appetite, check out this much better piece by the always informative Jon Ronson from July, 2005.