Gary McKinnon was not a trained spy or intelligence operative. He was a civilian, hacking from a bedroom in London using a dial-up connection, driven by curiosity and beliefs about hidden government information, not money or politics. In 2001, he accessed systems linked to NASA and the U.S. Space Command while searching for evidence of UFO secrecy. McKinnon later claimed he saw files referencing “non-terrestrial officers” and ship transfers. He also described viewing a satellite image showing a