From mmartinez@uni-hamburg.de Sat Aug 26 19:24:22 1995
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From: mmartinez@uni-hamburg.de (Marta Martínez)
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Subject: [INFO] The Glendale/Burbank Orion warehouse sealed pallets mystery
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Investigating the shipping manifests from Orion's Burbank facility right before the 1989 shutdown.

The warehouse workers were explicitly forbidden from unbanding the crates or checking inventory barcodes.
Three days before the September 9, 1989 fire at Orion Tower, an unmarked flatbed truck arrived at 03:00 and loaded all three unopened pallets back up.

Where were those pallets taken? To Ashford Poly? To a military storage depot?

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Marta Martínez
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From imartinez@demon.co.uk Mon Aug 28 16:40:22 1995
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From: imartinez@demon.co.uk (Ines Martínez)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The Glendale/Burbank Orion warehouse sealed pallets mystery
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In article <1995Aug26.192422.4359@uni-hamburg.de>, mmartinez@uni-hamburg.de (Marta Martínez) writes:
> Investigating the shipping manifests from Orion's Burbank facility right before the 1989 shutdown.
> The warehouse workers were explicitly forbidden from unbanding the crates or checking inventory barcodes.

They removed the hardware right before the fire was set. The fire was an insurance write-off and evidence disposal.

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Ines Martínez
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From llarsson@inria.fr Wed Aug 30 07:33:22 1995
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From: llarsson@inria.fr (Lars Larsson)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The Glendale/Burbank Orion warehouse sealed pallets mystery
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 07:33:22 GMT
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In article <1995Aug26.192422.4359@uni-hamburg.de>, mmartinez@uni-hamburg.de (Marta Martínez) writes:
> Investigating the shipping manifests from Orion's Burbank facility right before the 1989 shutdown.

Every warehouse has 'Special Projects' pallets. Usually it's high-value promotional giveaways or point-of-sale displays that managers don't want stolen.

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