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Item #: SCP-<number>
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: The anomolous properties of the device do make it a public hazard. While it does not appear to be immune to simple destructive methods, the foundation has elected to preserve it long enough to study it's function. In the meantime, it is kept in a locked drawer of Dr. XXXXXX's desk at site 17 and can be retrieved with written permission.
Description: SCP-<number> is a small red pushbutton manufactured by Mason and appears identical to other pushbuttons of it's vintage, manufacturer and model. It was removed from a private aircraft (Registration NXXXXXX) after the pilot brought the aircraft to an avionics shop in XXXXX, Washington, reporting intermittant failures of the push-to-talk switch.
The avionics tech at the shop measured the circuit with a Fluke 77IV multimeter and discovered that, when not pressed, the circuit was open (as it should be) but, when pressed, would produce erratic resistances ranging from 11ohms to 6000ohms. The technician assumed (correctly) that the switch was faulty and procured a replacement switch but, when he opened the control yoke to replace the faulty switch, discovered that neither of the switch terminals were connected to anything. The wire for the switch was found, pulled approximately 2cm down the column. The technician, who described a sickening feeling at witnessing this, turned on the aircraft battery master switch and radio master switch and activated the button several times.
Upon seeing the aircraft radio activate (illuminating the "TX" indicator on the face of the radio) "about half the time", the technician became queasy and left the aircraft, vomited in the men's room and returned. This is not due to any intrinsic property of the button itself but, rather, disorientation and alarm from the technician who could not rectify what he was seeing.
The technician replaced the pushbutton switch with the identical model and tested it. Finding it's operation satisfactory, he re-assembled the yoke, made a log-book entry for the pilot and released the aircraft to it's owner. As the aircraft was leaving the airport, the technician tuned to the local tower frequency and pushed the button he had removed. Snippets of conversation from within the aircraft came over the frequency, despite separation from the aircraft and a distance of "probably three miles" between the two.
The technician in question has worked for The Foundation in the past and had a low-level point of contact within the organization and requested that we take the device as he saw it as a potential hazard. In his own words: "Anything that could disrupt aircraft comms could probably result in a distracted pilot. If he were only gonna hurt himself, I wouldn't care because he's kind of a dick, but if his plane fell on a school or something I'd feel responsible."
The technician asked to be administered amnestetics because "I don't wanna remember finding that thing."
This is not the first time he's made this request, and doesn't recall that he's found two other anomolous devices and asked for the same treatment.
Recommendations for proposed future action: If at all possible, The Foundation will acquire the aircraft and test the switch and aircraft to learn the limitations of it's distance and whether the aircraft is necessary or merely the radio or even perhaps just the transistor junction within the radio that is affected and by what principle it functions. It may prove useful to have a wireless switch that requires no power on the user's end…
