Nikki reluctantly updates Hendry when he asks about missing plasma. Stern (Eduard Franz) is almost killed, but escapes to warn the others.
Carrington secretly uses blood plasma from the infirmary to incubate and nourish seedlings he has taken from the arm, failing to advise his colleagues or Capt Hendry of what he has done, or of having found the bodies of Olsen and Auerbach, drained of blood. Voorhees (Paul Frees), Dr Olsen and Dr Auerbach, stand guard overnight, waiting for the creature's return. He later discovers the hidden body of a sled dog, still warm, drained of blood, in the greenhouse.
The Air Force men are just as sure it may be dangerous.Ĭarrington soon realizes that the creature requires blood to reproduce. Chapman (John Dierkes) and other colleagues disagree. Carrington is convinced that the creature can be reasoned with and has much to teach them, but Dr. They learn that, while appearing humanoid, the creature is in fact an advanced form of plant life. As the arm warms up, it ingests the blood from one of the dogs and begins to come back to life. The creature wards off an attack by twelve sled dogs, and the scientists recover an arm, bitten off by the dogs. Feeling uneasy guarding the body, Corporal Barnes (William Self) covers the ice block with a blanket, not realizing it is an electric blanket, and the creature thaws out, revives and escapes to the outside cold. Some scientists want to thaw out the creature immediately, but Hendry orders everyone to wait until he receives orders from Air Force authorities. They excavate the tall body, preserving it in a large ice block and return to the research outpost as a major storm moves in, making communication with Anchorage very difficult. Crew Chief Sergeant Bob's (Dewey Martin) geiger counter locates a body nearby, frozen in the ice. They try to free it with thermite heat explosives, but in doing so accidentally destroy the craft. They are shocked to discover that the shape of the craft is that of a flying saucer. The craft is buried in the ice, with a vertical stabilizer protruding from the surface. From Geiger counter readings, Hendry's crew and the scientists fly to the crash site aboard the supply team's ski-equipped C-47. Hendry wonders to the doctor, "Twenty thousand tons of steel is an awful lot of metal for an airplane." "It is for the sort of aeroplane we know, Captain," Carrington responds. Carrington briefs the airmen, and Doctor Redding (George Fenneman) shows high speed photos of an object moving downward, up and on a straight line - not the movements of a meteor. A minor romantic sub-plot involves Captain Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey) and Carrington's secretary, Nikki Nicholson (Margaret Sheridan). Ned Scott (Douglas Spencer), a reporter in search of a story, tags along. They have evidence that an unknown flying craft of some kind crashed nearby. Arthur Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite), chief of a group of scientists working at a North Pole base, Polar Expedition Six. A United States Air Force (USAF) re-supply crew is officially dispatched by General Fogerty (David McMahon) from Anchorage, Alaska at the unusual request of Dr.