Professor Quatermass is resisting the planners of a rocket project known as the Dead Man's Deterrent. Meanwhile excav...

Uncovered, they discover that the interior of the object is empty, and a symbol consisting of five intersecting circl...

The shell of the object is so hard that even a borazon drill makes no impression, and when the attempt is made, stran...

Following the drilling attempt, a hole has somehow opened up in the wall which allows Quatermass and the others acces...

Quatermass plans to use an invention of Roney's, an "optic-encephalogram", to see these visions. The device will reco...

Despite his warnings, the media event occurs, and the power cables that string into the craft fully activate it for t...