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I am glad you brought up The Andromeda Strain
That movie made me think: Why is it that after we began to have rockets going into space, all kinds of bad things started coming to us out of space? Either brought back accidentally, like The Quatermass Experiment, or just got here on it's own, like The Blob.
That movie taught me a lesson: If a meteorite falls in your back yard and it is oozing slime, don't go near it. Cover it up with an upside down trash can and call the bomb squad.
I mean, meteorites have been hitting the ground since forever, and dust is always drifting into our atmosphere from space. It's not like the planet Earth has a wall around it. But there no monsters hitching a ride to Earth on meteorites.
I just thought of a great old movie! "20 million miles to Earth." Great special effects by Ray Harryhausen.
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