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THE SAGA OF DAN BuRISCH, AREA 51 MICROBIOLOGIST SAGA THE DAN BURISCH, AREA MICROBIOLOGIST Dr Dan Burisch, a microbiologist and EBE geneticist working out of the US military's top- secret S4 facility since 1989, has reportedly met an untimely death shortly after turning whistleblower. hose familiar with recent ufological history will remember Robert Lazar. In 1989, Lazar came forward with an incredible story: he had been recruited by the US government to work at the top-secret Groom Lake/Area 51 research base, better known as "Dreamland" (actually, at the S4 site, Papoose Mountain, which is a few miles to the south of Groom Lake), to reverse-engineer alien spacecraft! Researcher Tom Mahood conducted an openminded investigation of Lazar and posted a timeline, beginning with his birth in Florida on January 26, 1959, and continuing through to his problems with pandering charges, bankruptcy, etc. It was once a hot story, but now many consider Lazar's was either a fabrication or deliberate disinformation. However, the story of Bob Lazar's working on the "sports model" would not die, and other test-site workers have affirmed that Bob did indeed work at the Nevada Test Site. Other sources have said that the S4 facility is just as Bob describes it to be, and that reverse engineering is conducted there in secret. I have even met one computer engineer who works on contract for the Navy at Area 51, who has reverse-engineered an alien device. He is quite credible and is still on contract from time to time. Oh yes, he has a genuine Area 51 badge—not one of the fun badges sold at UFO conferences. Recently, friends of another scientist who worked at S4 stepped forward, and I have taken on this new case—bearing in mind all those nasty critics out there. Why? Because it fascinates me. This is the saga of a man held in captivity by his employers to the day he died—supposedly some time between September and early October 2002. His name: Dr Dan Burisch. Background on Dan B. Burisch, PhD Dan Burisch was born Danny Benjamin Crain on February 2, 1964. In 1990, he mar- ried Deborah Kay Burisch, who had a child from a previous marriage. In 1995, he changed his surname to Burisch to match the child's legal surname. From his childhood it was clear that Dan had an aptitude for microbiology. At the age of eight he was taken under the wing of various hospital doctors and medical scientists in what turned out to be an early start to an intriguing career in microbiology, much of it in the military "black ops" world. Dan's education record is by no means complete, but for the time period 1982-85 he is listed as a biologist and owner of Crain Environment Research in Las Vegas. In 1986 he received his BA in Psychology from University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and was approached as a candidate for working on a project for the government. In 1988 he was awarded a Master of Divinity from St Patrick's Seminary, Menlo Park, California; and in 1989 he obtained a PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from the State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook. SUNY has already denied having a record of this, but documents showing his educational record do exist. As for his military service record, by 1989 he was ranked Captain in the US Navy and was cleared to work at Groom Lake on Project Aquarius; his S4 badge was #H-6196MAJ. A secrecy agreement for the Tonopah Test Range/R4809, dated October 14, 1989, and bearing Burisch's (Crain's) signature, lists his SSAN [social security number], his rank as "05", his title as "MB III" (Microbiology III), and his employer as US Navy Department of Defense Naval Research Laboratory. A later document gives his service rank as Captain, US Naval Reserve, and his title as "Microbiologist IV". In 1991 he was cleared to work with a biowarfare unit and went to Iraq during Desert Storm, after which he was awarded a Presidential citation for field service. by Bill Hamilton © 2002 Executive Director Skywatch International Inc. Email: skycom22@skywatch-research.org Website: http://www.skywatch-research.org Executive Director Skywatch International Inc. Email: skycom22@skywatch-research.org Website: http:/www.skywatch-research.org NEXUS = 55 by Bill Hamilton © 2002 DECEMBER 2002 — JANUARY 2003 www.nexusmagazine.com