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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

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Image of SCP-XXXX.

Special Containment Procedures:
The office space containing SCP-XXXX, Floor 17, was acquired by The Foundation on ██/██/20██ under the name ██████ Industries, LLC. The reception area near the elevators is to be staffed during normal office hours by a single secretary. Any civilian who wanders onto Floor 17 should be immediately asked by said secretary if they have an appointment with ██████ Industries. Since ██████ Industries does not engage in any commercial activity, no one will have an appointment. The intruder should then be politely told to "have a nice day," and then completely ignored until they leave. Any person claiming to have an appointment should either be immediately administered amnestics or detained for questioning, at the discretion of the Site Director.

Under no circumstances should any unauthorized visitor to Floor 17 be allowed past the lobby into the rest of the office space. Doing so is a potential breach of containment, and any intruder who enters the remainder of the office should be promptly administered amnestics and returned to street level. Deliveries to Floor 17 are to be performed discreetly, packaged in boxes of office supplies. The delivery agent is to utter a passphrase, predetermined by the Site Director, to the secretary. Only then may the delivery agent enter the rear of the office space.

With the exception of Meeting Room B and the aforementioned reception area, Floor 17's office space shall be utilized for low-security administrative purposes as assigned by presiding O5. Meeting Room B should be kept vacated at all times except for purposes of testing or observation of SCP-XXXX. Any research personnel should be fully briefed on the nature and location of SCP-XXXX before entering Meeting Room B. All personnel are advised not to touch SCP-XXXX under any circumstances.

At night, the office should be vacated, with all doors locked and standard security measures in place. No personnel should occupy Floor 17 outside of standard office hours to avoid suspicion from neighboring businesses. Remember, if ██████ Industries is found by anyone to be a shell company, protocol Gamma-3523 would be breached and Foundation operations across the world would be threatened.

Description:
SCP-XXXX is a spherical atmospheric anomaly spanning approximately 153.8cm in diameter. The Sphere is not a physical object, and contains nothing. Although the Sphere does not contain air or any matter whatsoever, it does not act as a vacuum; air from the surrounding area does not move to fill the void left by SCP-XXXX. The sphere has no irregularities. Mathematically speaking, it is completely uniform. The sphere rests directly above a table in Meeting Room B and is nearly invisible to the naked eye, with only slight distortions on the edge of the anomalous area.

Any object that is moved into SCP-XXXX will disappear for a period of time, differing depending on the item inputted. However, the same object will disappear for the same amount of time over multiple trials, accurate to the tenth of a second.

After a period disappearance, an object will exit the anomaly. The object that exits the anomaly depends on the item entering the anomaly, although the same object inputted will always result in the same object outputted. While no pattern has been discerned with the duration of the period where an object has disappeared into the anomaly, objects sent into SCP-XXXX generally come out as "processed" versions of the original object. Refer to "Notable Tests" in the Addendum.

The most interesting quality of SCP-XXXX is that "processed" objects exiting the anomaly typically contain extra matter not given as part of the input. Also, some matter placed into the anomaly is never returned. One of the earliest tests on SCP-XXXX proves to be a good example of this unique behavior. 3 small lemons were inputted into the anomaly. After 5'33.8" seconds, a large amount of lemonade spilled out of the sphere onto the table. Analysis showed that the amount of lemon juice in the lemonade approximately matched the amount of lemon juice in the 3 original lemons. However, the pulp and zest of the lemons were never found, and the origin of the added water and sugar in the lemonade is unknown.

Addendum—List of Notable Experiments:

For the sake of length and readability, only the experiments representing a significant advance in research of SCP-XXXX were included.
Input Process Time Output Special Notes
3 Small Lemons 5'33.8" 567mL Lemonade Researchers report the lemonade was a tad watered-down for their tastes.
3kg Lump of Coal 32'51.1" 1kg Blue Diamond This type of diamond can only be found in certain parts of Africa.
Apple iPod Nano 8'34.2" Apple iPhone X The phone's UDID does not match any in Apple's database.
One 9-Volt Battery 0'22.7" Unknown Fuel Rod The type of fuel is unknown to Foundation research. Further testing is required but not yet possible due to Incident XXXX-1.
D-8236's Right Hand N/A N/A See incident report XXXX-1 for full details. This data may be discarded as an outlier because the test was not performed in a controlled or experimental manner.

Incident Report XXXX-1:
On ██/██/20██ D-8236 entered Meeting Room B without authorization. It has been determined by a postmortem of the situation that D-8236 was goaded into breaking containment protocol by several staff members, including those in janitorial positions. During the time of the incident these staff members stood outside the glass wall, goading D-8236 on to touch SCP-XXXX. What follows is a verbatim recount of the incident by D-8236:

So I was the new guy, right? I had to show everyone who was boss around here. So of course when they dared me to touch some invisible black hole thingy, I said yes. When I put my hand where the thing supposedly was, nothing happened. The entire staff cheered, and I started laughing. Nothing happened, the darn thing probably didn't even exist, it's all some kind of scare! Well, the real problem was when I tried to take my hand out. It wouldn't budge. And I pulled harder and harder until… well, I supposed I got my arm out of that thing one way or another. All I reckon I can remember from that point was the pain, then y'all stepped in and I woke up here. Y'all were plannin to give my hand back, right? It's probably still in that office somewhere…

D-8236's employment was terminated as a direct result of Incident XXXX-1. As per standard forceful termination procedures, D-8236 was heavily sedated, given advanced amnestics, stripped naked, and then dumped in Alleyway #████.

D-8236's hand was lost in the anomaly. With disappearance time stretching to the thousands of days, research teams are still on standby for its resurgence. As per experimental protocols, no new testing on SCP-XXXX may occur until the current test has completed.