"It is quite legitimate to assume that on other planets dinosaurs lived on to with the high intelligence necessary for interplanetary travel."
- Dale Russell, Ph.D., National Museum of Natural History, Ottawa, Canada.
To be more computer-friendly, the reprint has been divided into parts. Here begins Part 14 of Status Report III, written in June 1982. The series of status reports, I through VII, were written by Leonard H. Stringfield from 1978 to 1994. Previous Status Report IV begins at Earthfiles 021205. Leonard Stringfield died on December 18, 1994.
"Always present in my work is the I.I.I., or less cryptically, the 'Invisible Inside Informant.' New ones surface from time to time as old ones fade away. Sometimes on my wish, like a storybook genie, they respond with supposedly 'inside' UFO information ostensibly to help my cause in research. Usually, known by only a first name or as in one case, just as 'Uncle,' their backgrounds as UFO savants vary. Some allegedly serve, or have served, in the Intelligence community. One is a medical doctor and some are too shifty to be pinned down. The I.I.I. are always polite, are not always readily reachable and are evasive when I ask for a one-to-one meeting. As to their motives, I can only guess. Maybe some are just tired of secrecy and genuinely want to help. But others I can see as plants who are a part of a plan to either spoon feed information as a test of public reaction or are to set up a disinformation trap. In the end of the spectrum is the KGB who is interested in the progress of a duplication of a saucer-like craft by the U. S. military.