AW! Epistles
From E Townend
Abstract
Aliens or Anthroposaurs?
Wednesday, September 06, 2000
Having just read Dr Mike Magee’s insightful and well researched book "Who Lies Sleeping? The Dinosaur Heritage and the Extinction of Man" I am moved to further the idea that some, at least, of the "Aliens" sighted over recent years are not aliens at all but native creatures of this earth. For the last seven years I have been unable to interest anyone in the idea that dinosaurs close to the K-T boundary, when conventionally they were destroyed by a planetoid impact, had actually reached intelligence and been able to take evasive action when their environment collapsed. For the moment it does not matter where they went. what matters is that they are appearing again.
Dr Magee has proposed that a warm blooded stenonychosaur or some similar dinosaur evolved rapidly in the last few million years before the K-T boundary. Just like mankind, this dinosaur crossed the threshhold into intelligence and, like mankind, trashed its environment in only a few hundred years.
What would the intelligent dinosaurs, called by Dr Magee, anthroposaurus sapiens, look like. I suggest that you examine the descriptions of the familiar "Grey", images of which are now appearing everywhere. It is remarkably reptilian. It is small, being less than five feet high. It has large eyes with apparently a vertically slit-like iris. It has three fingers and two clawed toes. The stenonychosaurus fits this description precisely. Its large eyes are associated with nocturnal activity and Dr Magee suggests that the structure of the anthroposaur’s brain might have therefore been much more closely linked with vision than is our own.
Now anyone familiar with this field will be aware of Sequin and Russell’s reconstructiuon of a stenonychosaur which had not been destroyed 65 million years ago and continued to evolve until the present. It looks very much like a Grey. but in fact the stenonychosaur did not require such an inordinately long time to evolve. It had already done so by the end of the Cretaceous.
Where then have they been since? One could say that they escaped into space and now are seeking to return. But my view is that they had discovered the secret of exploiting the dimensions which appear to us to be missing but in fact are squashed flat.
Wheresoever the anthroposaurs are hiding they are plainly getting increasingly curious about what we are doing with the world and might be seeking ways of re-entering it. Perhaps we should consider their revived interest as a warning that we shall soon have rivals for the tenancy of the planet.
Thank you for your letter of 3 September via AskWhy!
You are right about the close similarity of the Greys to Russell’s Dinosauroid. I was worried about seeming too cranky if explicit about the possibilities so I only hinted at them by speaking of "The Sleepers" and "Who Lies Sleeping?" while otherwise arguing the case for the anthroposaurs as well as I could from the sources available. To provide more justification for the book I also argued the parallels with today which are, of course, just as important.
Perhaps much more could be written about Lovecraft and whatever he was consciously or unconsciously telling us. I notice that there are some books by someone called Alan Turner and published by Skoob Books about Lovecraft’s Cthulu Mythos reviewed in FT.
