DARRYL
BARKER PRODUCTIONS - dbarkertv.com
1/5/2000 Illinois UFO Media
Coverage
DARRYL BARKER PRODUCTIONS
PROVIDES IMPORTANT CASE DOCUMENTATION FOR ABC NEWS
SPECIAL: "PETER
JENNINGS REPORTING: UFOS - SEEING IS BELIEVING
Release Date: February 23, 2005
Peter Jennings Production Team Requests Assistance
Relating to St. Clair County, 1/5/2000, Illinois UFO Case
Independent producer Darryl Barker cooperated with Peter
Jennings' production team, Springs Media, New York City, by providing audio
elements of the police radio transmissions recorded by the St. Clair County,
Illinois 911 unit, Cencom, for the morning of January 5, 2000.
Barker provided tapes of police radio chatter which took place during the January
5, 2000, Illinois flying triangle UFO sightings, a case which has become known
around the globe. The tapes include overlapping as well as slightly different
recorded material, as originally compiled by the St. Clair County, Cencom communications officer.
After submitting a Freedom of Information Act request to
the Illinois State Attorney's office in February, 2000, Barker obtained two
versions of the original radio transmissions, which capture the conversations of
on-duty police officers from four Illinois towns and villages, including
Lebanon, Shiloh, Millstadt and Dupo, Illinois, as they made visual contact with
the UFO.
Also, Barker provided to Springs Media original drawings of
witness sketches, including that of Melvern Noll, the Illinois businessman who
first reported the UFO to the local police department as well as
O'Fallon, Illinois police department
Detective Mark Lopinot, whom Barker interviewed in 2002 during a follow-up
investigation into the case, resulting in the first public disclosure of a fifth police
officer who observed a UFO on the morning of January 5, 2000.
Darryl Barker Productions produced the premiere television
documentary investigating the January 5, 2000 UFO case, and will be credited in
the ABC program.
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* Darryl Barker is an independent
director/producer. His documentary coverage of the famous St. Clair County,
Illinois triangular UFO sighting by multiple witnesses, including five
police officers, was premiered in August, 2000 in St. Louis, Missouri. An
updated program, “The Edge of Reality: Illinois UFO, January 5, 2000” was
released in 2001.