
I was just watching Close Encoubters of the Third kind. There’s a scene about 1:33 into the movie where the protagonists are escaping from a makeshift military base. There are several labeled shipping crates being moved about. One is labeled Lockheed. The other two are Rockwell Int’l and TRW. I thought it was odd that these other two companies (and only these two) would be mentioned alongside Lockheed, so I briefly looked into both of these companies. Both were started in the early years of the 20th century, both have ties to Wright Pat and both went defunct in 2002. The defense components of TRW were sold to Northrop Grumman, and Rockwell’s aerospace division was sold to Boeing.
Given the roles that both Hynek and Vallee played in making this movie, I wonder if this is a hint that these two companies also received recovered wreckage. Has anybody seen these names pop up in the lore?
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