Studebaker had contracts to make aircraft engines during the second world
war as well as making the weasel and a duce and a half truck. So , Studebaker was already part of the military-industrial complex that 
President Eisenhower talked about.  When the UFO crashed in Roswell 
in 1947,  Eisenhower signed the treaty with the aliens 1954, who 
better to use back engineered technology to produce UFOs than a struggling 
automobile company who had a record of government contracts going back to 
the Civil War and was already in the "inside"?  Besides that, the design of 
Studes were much more aerodynamic than any other marquee and UFOs should be 
"slippery" when traveling through the air shouldn't they?  So once again, 
Studebakers come to the front of the line.   A logical progression?