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==Plot summary==
 
==Plot summary==
The movie opens in a US military base in [[Anchorage]], [[Alaska]]. A request for assistance is received from a group of [[scientist]]s stationed in an isolated Arctic outpost who have detected, via [[seismic]] instruments and [[radioactivity|radiation-triggered]] remote telescopic cameras which has crashed 48 miles from their base. A military team, accompanied by a [[Journalism|journalist]], respond to the request, and at the crash site discover a frozen spacecraft embedded in the ice. Attempts to melt the ice using thermite explosive charges result in the destruction of the craft, but they subsequently discover the body of its pilot and bring him back to their station still frozen in a block of ice. Unintentionally, they thaw the body, an eight-foot tall humanoid composed of a plant-like material. Despite displaying [[Homicide|homicidal]] behaviour, the scientists want to preserve and study him, while the military personnel want to destroy him. These competing interest groups come into conflict to determine the creature's fate, until finally the military personnel win. By rigging up a section of the metallic flooring to a high voltage [[electricity|electrical]] supply, the creature is eventually defeated.<ref name="justice" />
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The movie opens in a US military base in [[Anchorage]], [[Alaska]]. A request for assistance is received from a group of [[scientist]]s stationed in an isolated Arctic outpost who have detected, via [[seismic]] instruments and [[radioactivity|radiation-triggered]] remote telescopic cameras, an unidentified aircraft, weighing approximately 20,000 tons, which has crashed 48 miles from their base. A military team, accompanied by a [[Journalism|journalist]], respond to the request, and at the crash site discover a frozen spacecraft embedded in the ice. Attempts to melt the ice using thermite explosive charges result in the destruction of the craft, but they subsequently discover the body of its pilot and bring him back to their station still frozen in a block of ice. Unintentionally, they thaw the body, an eight-foot tall humanoid composed of a plant-like material. Despite displaying [[Homicide|homicidal]] behaviour, the scientists want to preserve and study him, while the military personnel want to destroy him. These competing interest groups come into conflict to determine the creature's fate, until finally the military personnel win. By rigging up a section of the metallic flooring to a high voltage [[electricity|electrical]] supply, the creature is eventually defeated.<ref name="justice" />
    
The movies closes with the Scotty, the journalist, relaying his report to fellow newsmen via radio: "Every one of you listening to my voice, tell the world, tell this to everybody wherever they are - Watch the skies... everywhere! Keep looking... Keep watching the skies!"
 
The movies closes with the Scotty, the journalist, relaying his report to fellow newsmen via radio: "Every one of you listening to my voice, tell the world, tell this to everybody wherever they are - Watch the skies... everywhere! Keep looking... Keep watching the skies!"
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