Dark Matters
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Don Ecker
It Only Matters in the Dark!
Don Ecker is a writer/researcher/commentator currently living in the Los
Angeles area. Serving as Director of Research and Media Liaison for
UFO Magazine, Ecker is an internationally renowned investigator of
the UFO phenomenon. A former law enforcement officer and criminal
investigator with over 10 years experience, he brings legitimacy to
a field that has for years suffered being painted with a fringe
brush. He has written numerous articles for the definitive UFO
publication, UFO Magazine, as well as articles for international
publications, the United Kingdom's Fortean Times, Omni, the Compuserve
System, and the ParaNet Computer Data Base.
Ecker became interested in the UFO question in 1966, when
along with several other people he was witness to a sighting of the
enigma. "It was unlike anything I had ever seen before, and I
realized then that there was much more to this than the authorities
were letting on."
After graduating from high school in 1968, Ecker attended
college for one year and then enlisted in the United States Army.
He was selected for the elite Army Security Agency, where he
volunteered for Special Operations. He served in Southeast Asia for
26 months, was wounded twice, decorated and then returned to the
U.S.
He returned to college for another year, then applied to his
home town police department, where he became a officer.
In 1986, while a member of his department's SWAT Team, Ecker
was wounded, which led to his retirement. While recuperating, he
started to research and write on the UFO mystery. As a criminal
investigator in 1982, he had been leading an investigation in of
several cattle mutilations, which Ecker later discovered where
somehow connected to the UFO mystery.
In 1989, during the International MUFON (Mutual UFO Network)
Conference in Las Vegas, Ecker presented a paper on his research.
He has appeared numerous times on the "Larry King Live" talk show
on CNN, and has been utilized repeatedly as an expert commentator
and technical adviser by NBC's "Hard Copy," Fox's "A Current
Affair" and recently was the technical adviser and on-screen
expert for the Fox Television "Sightings" program and ENCOUNTERS.
He has also appeared on CNBC's "TALK AMERICA", and the SCI FI
Channel's "ANTI-GRAVITY ROOM" and DISCOVERY CHANNEL's "CYBERLIFE"
and during the Roswell Anniversary he was interviewed on "Entertainment
Tonight" and "EXTRA." Ecker was a featured speaker at Nevada's dedication
of the
Extraterrestrial Highway during the premier of "Independence Day", the summer
blockbuster of 1996.
Ecker hosted his own weekly national radio talk show, "UFOs
Tonite!," on Cable Radio Network for five years, "STRANGE
DAZE" 5 nights a week on the Liberty Works Radio Network, and 2004
to 2005 DARK MATTERS with Dwight Schultz. Ecker has been a guest on
well over a thousand radio talk shows around the country.
Ecker brings important historical knowledge to the study of
the phenomenon. As he has stated, "The case for a conspiracy of
silence is there for all to see. All one has to do is to look to
the history of the U.S. Government and UFOs. The government, and
more specifically the U.S. Military, has always been aware of this
mystery and the potential danger and promise it might represent. We
as citizens have a right to know what is occurring, and what if
anything our government is doing about this enigma."
Ecker is true to his word and ideas. In 1991, he broke one of
the biggest UFO stories of the year. Investigating the 1988 Soviet
unmanned probes to Mars, Phobos I and II, Ecker uncovered an
amazing story of the Phobos II's apparent encounter with a huge
unknown and the probe's ultimate disappearance. He was able to
secure a photograph of the unknown from the Soviet Glavkosmos
Space Agency. He was asked to appear on NBC's "Hard Copy" and
Live CNN's "Larry King" to talk about this incident where he revealed
the photograph for the first time.
In 1992, Ecker once again broke one of the biggest UFO stories
of the year. Breaking it once again on "Hard Copy" and then
following it up on "Larry King Live," Ecker brought to public
attention the amazing story of STS-48, the Discovery shuttle
mission photographing UFO enigmas in earth orbit, and the drastic
maneuvers the unknowns took when "something" appeared to shoot at
them.
Visit Don Ecker's website: darkmattersradio.com
Contact Don Ecker at http://www.darkmattersradio.com/contact.php
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