So, yesterday I noticed this video that appears on several of the Ingersoll Lockwood pages. Here's just one example:

https://www.ingersolllockwood.com/how-we-work/

(It can be a little slow to load, so be patient.)

It shows a location, then the camera keeps zooming out until you find yourself in outer space. As it was zooming, I noticed the location was somewhere just north of Italy. I thought this was odd, as the Lockwood site is so "Made in America."

So, crazy me decides to figure out where this is and why this location is so important. Seems simple enough...until you discover that you can't pause the video. You have no idea, until you try, just how difficult it can be to match up a location when you have to pretty much rely on your memory. Fortunately for you, I managed to find the location using Google maps:

https://www.google.com/maps/@48.2607383,11.6701773,546m/data=!3m1!1e3

As it turns out, the location in the video is the Max Planck Institutes in Germany. It's quite a large facility that encompasses basically a large campus. I started checking out the various buildings and stumbled across this:

The Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

https://www.mpq.mpg.de/5292616/reiserer

There's also a Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics (space physics, not little green men)

https://www.mpe.mpg.de/main

It's the Quantum Optics part that really jumped out at me. It got me to thinking (a dangerous pastime, I know). I realize that a lot of people suspect this is a paytriot or a LARP, and I can perfectly understand this. I don't have an opinion either way, as I can't prove anything one way or the other, so I'm keeping an open mind at this point. That being said, I'm just going to throw this out on the table and run like hell from you guys.

I'm going to say this without saying it. If you go here:

https://www.ingersolllockwood.com/our-history/

and look at the board of directors, you will note that there are less than ten people listed.

Just an observation. Nothing more.