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A different take on the UFO. Not bad.
What do SCP-994 eat? Is there anything to the lore about flying saucers stealing people or cattle?
Edited that bit in. The Foundation feeds them plankton and the occasional cow (tasty, but gives them stomach troubles), and what they eat while flying about the countryside is up to speculation.
I thought that throwing in some abduction aspect would be pushing it a bit, so I left it out.
Haha, I like them. Very clever, and I like that they really aren't particularly dangerous or hostile; most people (i.e. myself) would have made them killing machines, but you abstained from that and I think it worked out a lot better for it.
Also, I agree that you should not include an abduction aspect; that may be pushing the limits of this SCP a bit far. Let us sit and wonder who/what wasactually doing the abductions. Maybe use that as your next SCP idea.
Theory: A specimen of 994 gets out. Someone sees it. The Foundation finds this witness and either kills him or gives him an amnesiac and an unbelievably bizarre false memory to make sure the whole world doesn't hear about it.
Alternate scenario: A specimen of 994 gets out and someone sees it. The Foundation does nothing. Viewer makes typical "I saw a UFO" claim. Viewer is not believed and can provide no actual proof outside of a fuzzy photograph or so. 994 returns to roost for the night, all is right with the world.
I'd say actual amnesiac/memory replacement measures would only happen if it the person had actual physical evidence or a very close encounter. But it does explain the abductions.
I love the description of their social behaviour. Imagining a flock of these things flying make me smile for some reason.
What does the Foundation do to wild instances of 994? Capture and transport them to a new hangar? Or do they kill them?
What you don't know is that the Doctor mentioned in the final addendum went crazy, broke out, and turned intothis guy.
"WELL FOUNDATION. YOU MADE IT SO EASY. SO VERY VERY EASY." -dimensionpotato
This one is pretty cute. Thinking of UFO's as mostly docile, sometimes mischievous animals instead of things that are piloted is a great twist. I can just see some researcher scratching the fur of a young one while it makes contented hums.