Quote Originally Posted by nikvoodoo View Post
Still not to say it wasn't a meteorite. After all, most objects that enter the Earth's atmosphere don't reach the ground. If this meteorite entered and broke up in the upper atmosphere but was containing some alien...uh...something....it could have been dispersed via the jet stream around the world.

My legs hurt from all the stretching I'm doing right now...
True, but as complex as the story has been so far I couldn't see the 'answer' being something as mundane. However, I don't want to see it as trite as an 'Umbrella Corporation' solution either. Perhaps a case of spontaneous genetic mutation? A random evolutionary misstep?