The Lombard Research Facility was a high-security facility for medical research situated in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With aid from the Lone Gunmen, Agent Fox Mulder was able to break in and investigate, seeking information about Scully's cancer. Syndicate-affiliated doctors Carl Oppenheim, Peter Jeffers, Mike Bennett, Joel Spitz, Ross Austin as well as Kevin Scanlon, who treated the MUFON female abductees, worked at this facility, which appeared to be an important centre for hybridization experiments and drone production. The gestating hybrids monitored by a group of Kurt Crawford clones were conceived using female abductees' ova stored in a vault built into a laboratory. These abductees included Dana Scully, Penny Northern and Betsy Hagopian, making these women the biological mothers of a