What Did Gary McKinnon Actually Discover When He Hacked Into US Government Computers?

McKinnon claims he discovered documents describing a programme to create an automated robot warrior, though he has said afterwards that , unknown to him, some of this was in the public domain at the time and not secret at all.

He also claims he found a special forces training video which showed disturbing violent images of homes being ransacked, with words like "Brutality" and "Domination" being emblazoned on the screen. He thinks the video was intended to be used for psychological conditioning of special forces troops.

His main goal was to discover whether the United States government knew anything about UFOs which it hadn't yet revealed to the world. He claims he came across a list of "Non-Terrestrial Officers" and thinks this may have indicated that the US government had some kind of secret spaceship or space station which it has so far concealed from the rest of the world.