A Weyland-Yutani Corporation estava em contato com Ash no Nostromo, então eles foram informados sobre o navio abandonado e sua carga, mas aparentemente a informação foi arquivada e esquecida, uma vez que nunca voltaram a investigar durante os 57 anos que Ripley estava à deriva em sua cápsula de fuga. O sinal que levou o Nostromo a LV-426 deve ter parado de transmitir durante esse tempo, já que ninguém na colônia sabia sobre o abandonado.
Foi só depois do resgate de Ripley que Carter Burke leu as coordenadas do navio abandonado de seu relatório e enviou os colonos para investigar. De wikiquote :
Ripley: Oh, but they will know about it, Burke. From me. Just like they'll know that you were responsible for the deaths of 157
colonists!
Burke: Wait a second—
Ripley: You sent them to that ship!
Burke: You're wrong!
Ripley: I just checked the colony log, directive dated 6/12/79, signed Burke, Carter J. You sent them out there and you didn't even
warn them! Why didn't you warn them, Burke?
Burke: Okay, look. What if that ship didn't even exist? Did you ever think about that? I didn't know! So now, if I went and made a
major security situation out of it, everybody steps in. Administration
steps in, and there are no exclusive rights for anybody; nobody wins.
So I made a decision, and it was wrong. It was a bad call, Ripley. It
was a bad call.