Item #: SCP-5000
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Perimeter Outpost-5000 has been constructed around the surface coordinates of the anomaly (Point VORTICOSE). Biological material produced by SCP-5000 is to be retrieved, stored per standard biosafety procedures, and transported off-site for indefinite storage.
Description: SCP-5000 is a meteorological phenomena in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. Initially, occurrences were bimonthly in nature, but have since shifted to an approximately biweekly basis. The sole prerequisite necessary for SCP-5000 is the presence of cloud coverage in a 10km radius of Point VORTICOSE.1 If no coverage is present exactly two weeks after the previous SCP-5000 incident, the anomaly will occur on the next date prerequisites are met.
Occurrence of the anomaly constitutes the mass manifestation of 10—40 disembodied human eyes 36m above Point VORTICOSE.
The condition of the eyes (hereafter specimens) is variable; attachment to the optic nerve, presence of the upper and lower eyelids, and presence of the rectus muscles are not constant. Minor damage from the descent into Point VORTICOSE soil is present.
Despite detachment from a nervous system, laboratory testing confirms that electrical activity persists in remaining, undamaged specimen nerves. Signals sent align with sensory and pain signals, and eyes with attached retus muscles spasmodically twitch. On reaching the end points of any nerves, signals vanish. How new signals are sent is unclear.
Genetic testing has mapped 13 specimens to known missing persons in Alberta. The earliest, Markus Holmes and Darius Aling, were last sighted in William A. Switzer Provincial Park on 17/6/1989. Witnesses reported that they repeatedly gnawed at their arms, hands, and outstretched tongues, doing so until noticing the observers and sprinting into the forest. No other persons have been observed after their disappearances. At the present moment, no identities have been determined for the other 120 specimens.
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