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People (1)

  • Ben Rich Lockheed engineer who headed the Skunk Works from 1975 to 1990, developed the F-117, and closed lectures with a line about taking E.T. home that listeners later reported as an admission.

Organizations (2)

  • EG&G Massachusetts instrumentation contractor founded in 1947, Atomic Energy Commission and Department of Energy test-site contractor in Nevada, Groom Lake radar test operator and, in witness accounts, the Las Vegas boarding point for Groom Lake.
  • Lockheed Skunk Works Lockheed's Burbank advanced development unit, begun in 1943 under Kelly Johnson, builder of the U-2, A-12 and F-117, and in some accounts a custodian of recovered craft, which the Pentagon denies.