SCP-[REDACTED]

Object class: Euclid

Description: SCP-[REDACTED] is a small, bright red button around 2 inches across, attached to a cylindrical pedestal, measuring 3” 6 cm across, and 3 feet tall. It is made of an unknown metal, and has a thin cord leading out from a port in the back. Attempts to unplug or cut the wire have proven fruitless, and an end has never been found. It leads seemingly forever towards the core of the earth, and some people suspect the button might act as some sort of detonator for an SK-Class end of the world scenario. The button is kept in a 5x5x5 hollow cube made of 2 inch titanium, and no one is allowed to enter the room. It was first found in a small shop in [REDACTED], New Mexico, and Site ### was built around the button, as attempts to remove the SCP have failed. The button has never been pressed or researched, and to be frank, we are exactly sure it anomalous at all. The only odd thing about it is the strange material of the pedestal, and the supposedly indestructible wire leading down. But those thing have never been properly tested, due to being paranoid it might suddenly detonate. It might just lead under the building, but the crawl space is yucky and full of spiders. The 05 council doesn’t care enough about this SCP to bother getting MTF to investigate, and we don’t have a permit to renovate the shop. The stakes are too high to test this, and we don’t have the funding to try seismic charges, to see for any cavities where a bomb or possible entity may be lurking.

Incident [REDACTED]-1

11:54 am Someone left the sites entrance open, and a civilian manages to wander into SCP-[REDACTED]’s containment zone.

11:59 am The civilian gets curious, but one of the on-duty scientists manages to stop them right in time.

12:01 am The scientist bumps into the button, pressing it down on accident, and they brace for the worst.

Nothing happened, and this opened up an investigation around the surrounding area for a second button, but nothing came up within the next few weeks.  Moral is low, and many people doubt the anomalous properties of the button, until a maddened researcher presses the button. For approximately 15 seconds nothing happens, until the pedestal suddenly spits open at a previously unnoticed hinge, and out pops a non anomalous helium balloon, and the pedestal closes back.

This incident has given SCP-[REDACTED] the code name: Balloon Button. Other tests have occurred, resulting in the same thing. Well this was a let-down, but hey, free balloons.