alien spacecraft (which had homed in on the same signal Julian was studying). In the aftermath, the government mounts a cover-up campaign by claiming that an experimental nuclear reactor at the base went into melt-down, destroying all of the facilities and killing everyone. The film ends with the alien spacecraft, still carrying the human survivors, leaving the solar system. Cast James Spader as Julian Rome Janine Eser as Dr. Kate Brecher John Lynch as Dr. Michael Straub Nikolay Binev as Dr. Alexi Gierach Leslie Stefanson as Nyla Olson Aimee Graham as Shelly Klein Stuart Charno as Abell Carl Lewis as Grisham Svetla Vasileva as Dacia Petrov Anthony Crivello as Pilot Kaloian Vodenicharov as Co-Pilot George Stanchev as Airman Rufus Dorsey as Navigator Roy Dotrice as Dr. John Bachman Woody Schultz as Sam Ron Krauss as First Man William Ladd Skinner as Second Man Franklin A. Vallente as Third Man Hristo Aleksandrov as Fourth Man Ross W. Clarkson as Falkland Man # 1 Willie Botha as Falkland Man # 2 Tyrone Pinkham as Kitt Peak Man #1 Atanas Srebrev as Kitt Peak Man #2 Joel Polis as Copeland Keir Dullea as Secretary Bayer Bert Emmett as Gordon Osler Marianne Stanicheva as Reporter Dobrin Dosev as Captain Sokolov Atanas Atanasov as Executive Officer Volkov Hristo Shopov as Navigator Petrenko Harry Anichkin as Army General Velimir Velev as Alien See also The Thing References External links at Crackle 2003 films 2003 science fiction action films American science fiction action films Bulgarian action films Bulgarian thriller films English-language Bulgarian films Alien visitations in films Films about viral outbreaks Films set in Antarctica Films set in California Films set in New Mexico Nu Image films Films shot in Bulgaria Films set in 1947 American science fiction thriller films Bulgarian science fiction films 2000s English-language films Films produced by Boaz Davidson Films with screenplays by Boaz Davidson 2000s American films