Donna Hare
Donna Hare is a former NASA contractor who worked as a photographic specialist in the Space Shuttle program at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. She is best known for her allegation — made publicly at the 2001 Disclosure Project press conference and in subsequent interviews — that Building 8 of Johnson Space Center housed a dedicated laboratory where technicians airbrushed unidentified objects out of high-resolution NASA satellite and aerial imagery before images were released to the public.
| Role | Former NASA launch photographic specialist |
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Allegation About Building 8
Hare stated that she had witnessed a colleague — under security clearance obligations she herself did not share — working on a photograph showing a round object above the Earth that was in the process of being removed from the image before distribution. She alleged that Building 8 maintained a systematic process for identifying and removing anomalous objects from NASA imagery, and that personnel involved were sworn to secrecy.
Her account directly informed Gary McKinnon's decision to target Building 8 servers during his 2001–2002 hack of 97 US military and NASA computer systems. McKinnon claims to have found folders titled "raw" and "processed" on Building 8 machines, and found within them imagery files at unusually large sizes, consistent with Hare's description of high-resolution source material being processed for public release.
Chris Mellon has separately commented that classified 4K satellite footage of UAPs exists but is suppressed or altered, lending indirect support to Hare's account.