Fadeout indicates that several days have passed.

We see a military force move in to the ruined town – truck, jeeps, etc.  Troops with masks and radioactive gear carefully examine the ground.  Several shots of anonymous-looking soldiers poking at the charred corpses of cactus-people with various instruments.

Cut to a field headquarters several miles away.  The Unnamed General of the opening scene in a tent with a radioman.

General (Impatiently):  “Well?  Well?”

Radioman (with headset on):  “It’s a mess, sir.  Whatever it is that destroyed that town, well they’ve found nothing.  Whatever it is, it’s gone.”

General:  “What about survivors?”

Radioman:  They’ve found no survivors so far, sir.”

General:  “Not one?  Not even one?”

Radioman: “Not so far, sir.”

General (Shrewdly):  “Fifteen hundred civilians lived in that town.  All of them gone.  It’s a calamity, of course.  But it does make our cover story that much easier.  All right, soldier.  Tell them, on my orders, to bulldoze everything.  Bury it deep.  And that’ll be the end of it.”

Radioman:  “Yes, sir.”

Scroll Text:  “The End”                

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