Gary McKinnon

U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May has put a stop to efforts to extradite computer hacker Gary McKinnon. Mr. McKinnon, age 46, allegedly hacked into multiple United States military computer networks between February 2001 and March 2002.

Mr. McKinnon, who is on the autism spectrum, later claimed he was seeking evidence related to UFO sightings as well as signs of a conspiracy to conceal advancements in "free energy."

For his impressive efforts in search of the truth according to the X-Files, Mr. McKinnon was in danger of spending the rest of his natural life in an American penitentiary. The Home Secretary defended blocking the hacker's extradition by saying he was "seriously ill."

The BBC reports that Mark Lever, who heads the United Kingdom's National Autistic Society (NAS), expressed delight over the resolution of the case, saying, "People with Asperger syndrome can be vulnerable and the NAS argued long and hard for the home secretary to take Gary's condition and its associated challenges into account when making this decision."

Street View UFO (Google Street View)

Andrea Dove, who lives outside Houston, Texas, was using Google Maps to get directions to a relative's house when she made an interesting discovery on Street View: something that resembles a fading, pinkish UFO straight out of cartoon sci-fi.

KLTV-TV sent a reporter after the story, who went full man-on-the-street in tracking the alien image:

I looked up a dozen different cities and didn't find any similar anomalies. That must make Jacksonville special.

"Do you see anything?" I asked a couple residents.

"Not yet," they replied.

The KLTV reporter seemed to be unaware that finding anomalies on Google Street View is a cherished Internet past-time. Other high strangeness captured by Street View cameras includes:

• Ghosts--several ghosts, in fact
• Randomly levitating children
• And to bring things full circle, the likely pilot of the Texas UFO, ET, the extraterrestrial.

Of course, Street View is also good at capturing scary slices of real life, as we recently discovered when the Google cameras captured the business end of a gun.

As for the UFO in Texas, chances are good it's an artifact of light refracting inside one of the many lenses inside the Street View car's Death Star-shaped camera.

The Chasing UFOs team. (Photo: National Geographic)

It's one thing to fake intergalactic advertising like the hoaxsters at Rolling Rock did back in 2008 with moonvertising, but actually carrying through with the plan is a whole other thing entirely. When the National Geographic channel heard about Tweets in Space, a program spearheaded by two artists who plan to beam tweets to planet GJ667Cc, they decided to jump on the bandwagon. But, of course, it's not all in the name of science.

The Daily Dot reports that National Geographic has teamed up with Tweets in Space to transmit tweets with the hashtag #ChasingUFOs to promote its new show called--yes--Chasing UFOs.

Writes The Daily Dot:

Any tweets tagged #ChasingUFOs that are sent in the seven hours after 8pm ET on June 29 will be rolled into National Geographic’s transmission. The nonprofit is sending the tweets in response to the Wow! Signal, a 72-second transmission from space picked up by Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in 1977. National Geographic is also sending several video messages from filmmakers, musicians and scientists among others.

Somehow this isn't at all how we imagined first contact would go.