Don Ecker is an author and served as the Director of Research for UFO Magazine for over 20 years. He is married to a Founding Publisher and Editor of UFO Magazine, Vicki C. Ecker.<ref name=DECKER> </ref>

Introduction

A medically retired police detective, Ecker puts a skeptical and honest eye on UFO and paranormal subjects. Acknowledged as an international expert on UFOs, he has appeared at UFO conferences both in the United States and Europe, and on television nationally in the U.S., Japan, Europe, Australia and the Russian CIS.

Military background

Ecker enlisted in the United States Army in 1969 during the height of the Vietnam War after attending his first year of college. Originally he volunteered to train to fly helicopters but was selected for the ultra top-secret Army Security Agency. (The ASA was the military arm of the National Security Agency) This met being vetted for a “Top Secret” security clearance which he received.

After training, he was posted to Okinawa at the top secret base at Torii Station. After volunteering a number of times he was assigned to go to Vietnam, arriving at the 8th RR site in Phu Bai in 1971. Ultimately he was assigned to a nine man team assigned to Camp A-4, situated on the DMZ. From this site the American team launched operations against the North Vietnamese forces just across the border in North Vietnam.

On March 30, 1972 the North Vietnamese Army launched their “Easter Offensive” into South Vietnam, overrunning the A-4 site, and finally all the way south to Hue City before they were stopped by B-52 raids ordered by President Nixon.

On Easter Sunday, April 2, 1972 Ecker was wounded in Quang Tri at a MAC-V site just off of Highway One. After spending months in military hospitals he was honorably discharged and returned home. Today Ecker is very active in veterans' affairs. He is the Past Commander of the Audie Murphy Chapter, Military Order of the Purple Heart.

Radio shows and television

Ecker hosted the radio programs UFOs Tonite! and Strange Daze for six years, interviewing the important personalities in the paranormal fields and related areas.

Later, along with his close friend, television and film star Dwight Schultz of The A-Team and Star Trek fame, he hosted Dark Matters on the Reality Radio Network. His guests have included Zecharia Sitchin, Dr. Joe Burks, Dean Haglund, Dr. Michael Shermer, Hal Siemer, Terry Hansen, and Karl Pflock, and other notable authors and researchers.

Ecker has also appeared on Larry King Live, in numerous documentaries on the History and Discovery channels as well as on Coast to Coast AM and many other radio programs. Ecker resurrected Dark Matters on the Patriot Brigade Radio Network in 2006.

Books and journalism

Don Ecker, while a working as a police detective in 1981-82, was the lead investigator on two cattle mutilation cases. Intrigued by the fact the animals were drained of blood, and always interested in legends and mythological tales, he began researching the vampire myths. This was the first step in the writing of his vampire novel, Past Sins.

Past Sins plot

At the height of the “cold war” waged between the Soviet Union and the United States, it is a well known fact that American Intelligence Agencies waged war using the services of former Nazis, crime syndicates like the Mafia and even third world dictators. The object was to contain and control the spread of world-wide communism.

Past Sins is the story of another front waged in the war on communism, starting in the mid-1960s when the CIA managed to get their hands on what they saw as the ultimate weapon to win their war with Soviet Intelligence. A weapon that was biological in nature, a weapon that was aware, alive in a sense, and the ultimate evil.

In addition to UFO Magazine, Ecker's writing has appeared in numerous paranormal related periodicals and on related websites. Ecker is currently working on a sequel to Past Sins.

Past Sins by Don Ecker. (2004). ISBN 978-0975264508

References

External links

Dark Matters with Don Ecker

Past Sins (vampire novel)