Professor Quatermass is working on a highly unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, he becomes intrigued by a mysterious hollow meteorite that disrupts an Army exercise. Quatermass and his soon-to-be son-in-law, Captain John Dillon, investigate and uncover a massive government production facility linked to the meteorites.
Army captain John Dillon defies a clampdown to take the remains of a crashed ...