Re: Looks like the mother ship is still there...
It's a rule of science fiction that anyone who drills into the earth's crust in order to do 'geothermal research', is either lying and it's actually a secret government project to cause earthquakes, or dies horribly due to alien/supernatural horrors hiding at the bottom of their shafts.
It's a bit like going to an old isolated house/castle for help after your car has broken down in the rain. Something you just shouldn't do.