that bad explosion happened near the jfk space center located off of cape canaveral, florida, so i think it'd be very possible that ford could have been close by, might have wanted to help faye, but saw her get essentially scorched by some stone and then abducted by the aliens that ended up grooming her? there could be some weird tension on ford's part that faye doesn't understand so maybe we can play out that revelation in-game. completely shoot me down if that idea doesn't take your fancy, though!