I’m hardly a Luddite, but I’ve got a feeling this isn’t going to end well.
I think you are on to something. Clearly the device is too dangerous in the hands of egg-head scientists, but does their research activate a long-dormant space monster, cause the dead to rise as zombies, or does a routine experiment get out of hand-like small piece of cellophane from a bannana & balogney sandwich jamming a safety switch open- causing world-wide apocalypse, which one?