Item #: SCP-1608
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: All avian species found to be part of SCP-1608's diet
are to be maintained in an aviary within Area-78.
Satellite footage of this area is to be scrubbed by Foundation personnel.
Members of MTF-Kappa-11 "Red Barons" are to track and monitor SCP-1608's current location
and report its status to Area-78.
Airborne personnel are to maintain a distance of 150 meters away from SCP-1608's estimated
location, to prevent their crafts from being damaged during containment events.
Seaborne personnel are to report any manifestation events they observe.
If containment is breached, members of MTF-Kappa-11 are to follow its hypothesized location until
it manifests, then release food for it in a trail leading back to Area-78.
Description: SCP-1608 is a Balaenoptera musculus, or blue whale, located between 50-110 meters
above the earth's surface.
It is estimated to weigh 154 metric tonnes and has a length of 29 meters.
Its flipper has been imprinted with a stylized image resembling clouds.
Further observation has been hampered by SCP-1608's anomalous property.
SCP-1608 is intangible, and will spend most of its time drifting through the atmosphere.
It appears to have limited control over its movement, and will attempt to steer itself
towards food and objects it believes to be food.
During this time, SCP-1608 is impossible to observe, as all methods of tracking airborne
bodies have proven ineffective.
SCP-1608 manifests physically once every half hour, and will remain corporeal for a period
between 16-20 seconds before returning to intangibility.
It is hypothesized that SCP-1608 manifests to breathe and excrete waste.
When feeding, SCP-1608 will move itself so that its prey is situated within its intangible
stomach, then re-manifest for a period between 1-3 seconds to consume it.
This effect will also cause any other solid matter within its form to be taken into SCP-1608's
body.
Prior to containment, SCP-1608 caused the near extinction of several high-atmospheric
birds due to its rapid consumption of these animals.
In addition, any other matter taken into SCP-1608's body that is not consumed will be released
from its body some point after being taken inside.
There appears to be no upper limit to the amount of matter SCP-1608 is capable of holding,
and no additional space appears on its body to compensate for this additional mass.
Artifacts dating back to as early as 1776 have been discovered originating from its
mass.
SCP-1608 was first observed by the Foundation on 8/11/1929, after reports of several whaling
ships sighting of a "massive airborne whale" reached Foundation agents embedded in Tokyo,
Japan.
Subsequent sightings provided cause for a Foundation investigation, however all investigation
into the anomaly was suspended due to budgetary concerns.
Containment began in 1976, after personnel in Tokyo rediscovered the original reports
and alerted local command to the anomaly.
After brief scouting missions to the previously reported area, the anomaly was confirmed and
containment procedures were enacted.
As of 03/19/1980, SCP-1608 has been classified as Euclid.
Addendum: Log of items consumed and produced by SCP-1608.
Date Materials absorbed or consumed.
??/??/1928 Reported from original documentation.
Consumed a portion of a whaling ship.
Note that this is the lowest atmospheric levels reported from SCP-1608 activity.
12/19/1976 Took one Foundation aircraft which had been scouting the area SCP-1608 was reported
to inhabit.
The pilot, Agent Byrne, was reported as MIA. 03/11/1980 Expelled materials appearing to
belong with a British whaling ship, including a watch tower, circa 1898.
The remains of an unidentified human was found preserved with the watch tower, and the subject
appeared to have expired upon exiting SCP-1608.
05/27/1982 Expelled approximately 324 members of the bird species ██████ ████, which
had been extinct since 1900.
All instances of ██████ ████ were contained at Area-78's aviary.
08/19/1991 Flag originating from a Spanish vessel dating from at least 1776 was expelled
from SCP-1608.
Appeared to be drenched in SCP-1608's blood, however no damage was noted on SCP-1608.
07/07/1999.
The remains of a Foundation aircraft and Agent Byrne were released.
Autopsy showed Agent Byrne was killed upon exiting SCP-1608.
No other abnormalities were noted with the body or aircraft.