#Lockheed
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- 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.
- Francis Gary Powers American Central Intelligence Agency U-2 pilot shot down near Sverdlovsk on May 1, 1960, tried in Moscow, exchanged for Rudolf Abel in 1962, and killed in a 1977 television helicopter crash.
- Ron Blackburn Retired Air Force lieutenant colonel at Lockheed in Burbank whom John B. Alexander named as co-founder of the 1985 Advanced Theoretical Physics group, and who appears in contemporaneous notes of its meetings.
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- 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.
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