Presenter: Michael Schratt

Fort McDowell, Arizona
Michael Schratt(MS)

Michael's presentation covered an overview of some conversations he had with Dan Burisch regarding an alien he knew called J-ROD and his time in what was known as "Project Aquarius".

Similar to Bob lazar, Dan worked at "S4" located within the Area 51 military base and this is a testament to that experience.

To start, MS covered a little of the background of the base. The base had four levels that were all very secluded, top secret, and they were incredibly strict about gaining access to any one of the levels.  For example, before anyone could enter one of the buildings, they had to completely undress, get weighed, then go forward.  There were lines they had to follow as they moved from building to building and if they deviated at all from any one of the lines, they were in danger of being shot.

MS showed us a blueprint of the secret base based on the conversations with Mr. Burisch. He did a great job in creating a base upon which you could grasp what the environment would be like.  Really great. 

His presentation overall walked us through each level and as each level was shown to us, there was a whole new breadth of wild things you couldn't even make up in your wildest sci-fi dreams. Essentially, this facility was built  underground with four very high-secure levels in order to ultimately get down to where this ET was being held captive.  They also had ET craft there as well that has been confirmed by other people than just Dan Burisch.  

Not only was the presentation focused on the building but this whole story was re-created by interviews with a major scientist(multiple degrees in Science & Psychology, etc) who worked there at the time, Dan Burisch.  DB had interactions with the ET in the last level.  DB said this ET was given a nickname of J-ROD. Unfortunately, I missed the meaning of the acronym but it had something to do with how they found him and what he looked like.

MS showed us a map of the area and explained that this area, in map terms called R4808n is aka Groom Lake and is "the most highly guarded airspace in the country". Many people call this area Dreamland. If any were to try to go over this airspace, the air force there is commanded to shoot them down.  There is an INCREDIBLE radio show called Coast to Coast AM which is currently hosted by George Noory.  There was a show once, when it was hosted by Art Bell where someone calls in, whose flying a prop-engine airplane, and flies over Area 51(Groom Lake/S4 exists within Area 51).  This was one of my favorite shows.  During the call Art tells the guy to turn around but the guy keeps going saying that the public has a right to know what's going on there.  The guy tells art that the pilot in the jet that has been called out to catch him is trying to hail him on the radio.  He then says the pilot will shoot and the even flashes his lights at him(didn't know jets had headlights).  This call leaves you on the edge of your seat because just as he says the jet is about to fire something at him, the call cuts off!  They really mean business at Area 51.

On with the presentation.  The employees who work at these bases are just regular people who are actually bused and flown in from Las Vegas.  Their jobs require them to be under constant surveillance and again, they cannot deviate from their ordered work area.  They can also not fraternize in any way with other people who are not in their particular work group.  They have to sit quietly and just do as they're required. MS said that on the airplane ride in to Groom Lake they play the song "They're Coming to America" as if to say the ETs are coming in to our country.

As I mentioned before, this is the same area, S4, where Bob Lazar purportedly worked.  And this is the place where the famously coined UFO called the "Sport Model" was located. This was a UFO that Lazar worked on which he was able to give much detail as to how the craft was designed.  MS told us that it had three levels.  The bottom level had these three Gravity amplifiers that were essentially the propulsion chambers of the craft.  These amplifiers used gravity is such a way to create a sort of bubble around that craft that made it fall forward, almost like the moon falls around the earth.  The craft uses an element that, at that time did not exist. It was element 115 and when this element decayed, it created element 116 which created anti-matter and that formed it method of propulsion. Lazar said that he replaced a guy who died because he tried to open up one of these gravity amplifiers.

There were 5 programs that fell under Dan Burisch's experience. One of those programs was tending to the ET they held captive, J-ROD. J-Rod was one of three ETs found at a UFO crash in Kinsman, Arizona in 1954.  One ET died upon impact, the other was taken to a different base (either Wright-Patterson or somewhere in DC.. missed this in presentation) and the third ET was taken to S4.  Additionally, a device was retireived that was ultimately called "The Orion Cube".  This cube was able to show anyone who handled it future events in to the near future.

Dan Burisch attended to J-ROD on a regular basis and one of his duties was to collect tissue samples from the J-ROD to help figure out and cure a strange genetic disease that had.  J-ROD was housed inside of this large dome-like structure that was conditioned for him.  On top were these bee-hive lights that were created so as to not emit any shadows.  This was important because Dan Burisch had to be sure of the tissue samples he was taking upon contact with the J-ROD.

Upon each contact that Dan Burisch & J-ROD had with each, they had to do it in a certain way.  An example was that they first had to wave once at each other then take one step forward.  There was one time when the J-ROD apparently tripped on the grating and fell on top of Dan Burisch.  When this happened, the J-ROD sent a massive amount of information into Dan Burisch's mind along with a peek into the near future. This had a very strong impact on Dan and from that moment forward started to feel some sort of connection with J-ROD.  He knew that J-ROD had a home where he was from.

I don't remember the exact detail of how this moment happened but there was a moment when the J-ROD was getting much more ill and they built a sort of wheel-chair for him that was also conditioned.  There was this ramp or something that,and this is where I get fuzzy but, at the end was the Orion Cube.  Long story short, on this one occassion, Dan was puhing the wheel chair up the ramp and felt sorry for the J-ROD and felt an impulse to push him towards the cube's beam.  The ending result was the J-ROD disappeared along with the wheel chair.  Then, all of a sudden, the chair was almost pushed back onto the ramp and J-ROD was gone at that moment.  Dan Burisch believes that he sent the J-ROD home by doing this.

This was the first presentation of the conference and what a great way to start!  If you would like to read this story in its entirety with maps, blueprint, pictures, and EVERYTHING, you can do so by visiting the Open Minds website.