Gary McKinnon

Gary McKinnon told the BBC he broke into 97 US Government computers on a “moral crusade” to prove US intelligence had found an alien craft that is able to run on clean fuel.

A Briton fighting extradition to the US for hacking into top-secret computers claims he was morally justified in breaking the law.

Gary McKinnon, 43, from Wood Green, north London, admits hacking into 97 US government computers, including Nasa’s and Pentagon’s, during 2001 and 2002.

Mr McKinnon is accused of hacking into the computers with the intention of intimidating the US government.

His legal team fear he could be treated as a terrorist and face up to 70 years in jail.

The US government says his actions caused damage costing $800,000 (£500,000) at a time of heightened security in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks.

Mr McKinnon told BBC Radio 5 live’s Victoria Derbyshire show: “I’m not blind to criminality but I was on a moral crusade at the time.

“There was good evidence to show that certain secretive parts of the American government intelligence agencies did have access to crashed extra terrestrial technology which could… save us as a form of free, clean, pollution-free energy.

“I thought if someone was holding on to that, that was actually unconstitutional under American law.”

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