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Contents 1 Overview 2 Details 3 Participants 3.1 Witnesses 3.2 Media Involvement 3.3 Investigators 3.4 Experts and Other Commentators 3.5 Evidence

Overview

UFO Over Illinois is a one-hour television documentary about a UFO case that received national attention. One element that made the series of sightings special is that four of the witnesses were police officers, each with an independent sighting and each from a different department. One officer took a Polaroid picture, and the calls were recorded.

The documentary includes a "technical animation" of the events, which the witnesses indicate is an accurate representation of what they saw.

There are five sections: The Eyewitness Accounts; The Response; The Investigation; The Evaluation; and The Analysis.

Details

Title: UFO Over Illinois
Subtitle: Anatomy of a Sighting

Original Airdate: August 3, 2006
Channel: The Travel Channel
Length: 60 minutes
Executive Producer: Erik Nelson
Narrated by Randy Thomas
Music by Mark Leggett

Participants

Witnesses

Melvern Noll (truck driver)

Tina Joaquin (911 dispatcher)

Officer Ed Barton (Highland Police Officer)

Officer Craig Stevens (Millstadt Police Officer)

Chief Ed Wilderson (Millstadt Police Dept) (secondary)

Steven Wonnacott (high school teacher)

Media Involvement

Roche Madden (KTVI-TV reporter)

Leisa Zigman (KSDK-TV reporter)

Investigators

Eric Eklund (professional interviewer, investigator)

Experts and Other Commentators

Lt. Col Alan Dahncke (Scott Air Force Base)

Chuck Eastlake (Aerospace Engineering Professor)

Colm Kelleher (NIDS)

Bruce Cornet (ufologist)

David Massa (Sigma Animation Technical Animator)

Evidence

911 tapes are played

Polaroid picture is shown

Original sketch is shown

Technical animation is shown

Includes brief Phoenix Lights footage, Belgium triangle footage, Pine Bush UFO footage