[Kirr]

They dig it up; they cart it back to their base. Somehow it gets thawed; it wakes up, probably not in the best of moods...

[tyingq]

That's the later 2011 prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter film.

In the 1982 film, it's a dog-clone-thing that brings the chaos from the Norwegian base to the US one.

[defaultname]

Though the plot of the 1982 film was pretty clear that the Norwegians dug up an alien space craft, and a smaller "human sized" dig that was presumed to be its occupant.

[tyingq]

Yes...they do go to the Norwegian base, and find the remains of the alien that the Norwegians had burned, the cut-out slab of ice, and the spaceship. While some of both movies didn't age very well, I still like both of them and watch them in sequence every now and then.