Owens Valley Radio Observatory - in Popular Culture

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It was here that a part The Arrival (1996) movie was film, being it the place where Zane Zaminsky (Charlie Sheen) and Calvin (Richard Schiff) work for SETI and discover the alien signal, later in the movie one of the Radio Antennas is destroyed by a BHB (Black Hole Bomb) to prevent Zane from escaping a tape containing the proof of the aliens terraforming the earth and the assassinations of Calvin and Ilana Green (Lindsay Crouse).


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