Alien Alert!

With Colonel Corso's book and its impact finally absorbed into my being, I was ready to take a long look again at the dinosaurs.

My earlier intuition had whispered to me that all the fascinating variety of dinosaurian warriors, with their constant and steady procession towards nightmare, could only be accounted for by one thing...deliberate genetic engineering by some outside force.

Now that the fact...not the hypothesis, but the FACT...of an extraterrestrial presence on earth was at last confirmed, I could look at things in a different light.

More boldly.

If extraterrestrials are here now, there seems to be no reason to exclude previous contacts, perhaps stretching all the way back to the times of the dinosaurs.

I began to expand my theory, began to roam more widely over the dark and mysterious landscape in the hope of casting upon its rocky and abandoned terrain more light...

I do not pretend to have all the answers, not even all the questions. Possibilities abound, and anyone can make up their own. But I would like to explore certain scenarios, ideas and tentative conclusions. None of it is set in stone, all of it is subject to revision and editing at any time... by me, by readers, by anyone.

First of all, the Colonel's revelations made it clear who the outside force doing the genetic engineering on the dinosaurs might have been.

Not God, which was a relief.

Extraterrestrials. Perhaps the same group presently observing us...which was NOT a relief.

The next logical question to be answered would have to be...what on earth for? What would be the purpose for such a literally monstrous undertaking?

Lots of answers come along just as logically, in a kind of parade.

The dinosaurs could have been Guinea pigs of a kind, laboratory animals being kept under strict observation. They hardly have the advantages of fruit flies, but on the other hand their very size and grossness show changes on a magna-scale, easy to observe and confirm without resort to microscopes.

Or...