WATCH: Proof NASA edits out UFOs? What Gary McKinnon found on 2-year hack spree

A HACKER believes he saw proof NASA DOES edit out pictures of alien Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) from its images before public release.

Gary McKinnon plus insets (top) CGI image of a cigar UFO and the NASA logoGETTY•MUFON•YouTube

Gary McKinnon plus insets (top) CGI image of a cigar UFO and the NASA logo

Gary McKinnon, who faced a 10-year fight against extradition to the US after breaking into computer databases of NASA, US military and the Pentagon, has made the shock claims.

It remains one of the top alien conspiracist theories - that NASA and the US government has known for years we are being regularly monitored by UFOs from far-flung galaxies.

But, in the belief Joe Public could not handle the truth, or it would lead to the breakdown of religion and society as we know it, it has been successfully withheld from us by cover up after cover up.

It was when former NASA contractor Donna Hare went whistleblower in November 2000 with claims that NASA staff digitally edited out UFOs from satellite pictures before they were released, from Building eight of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, that Mr McKinnon, 49, decided he had to know more.

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