Item #: ?SCP-312 Object Class: ?Euclid Special Containment Procedures: ?SCP-312 is to be kept in a large biological containment chamber at Site-19.

Only researchers are allowed into the chamber as eating is not required.

All persons entering the conference hall are required to wear wide-brimmed hats and are advised not to look directly upward.

Description: SCP-312 is an organism composed of very thin layers of tissue filled with atmospheric gases that are slightly warmer than the surrounding air.

It will usually float at an altitude of approximately ███ meters above the ground, although this will vary in order to maintain its position relative to its prey.

SCP-312 is capable of releasing water vapor and manipulating air currents to form small columnar clouds around it, which it uses as camouflage.

In the clouds, SCP-312 visually resembles a large jellyfish, with a cap approximately two-and-a-half (2.5) meters in diameter, from which trail a tendril approximately twenty-five (25) meters long.

SCP-312 preys on large mammals and displays a strong preference for humans.

While hunting, SCP-312 will stalk prey from a position directly above it, manipulating the airflow around it to maintain relative position.

Prey can escape by moving at speeds of thirty kilometers per hour (30 kilometers per hour) or into large crowds, which appears to disorient SCP-312 and cause it to switch targets.

SCP-312's core is filled with a pair of large eyes.

Most eyes are human except for a large central ball.

The other eye is connected to the center by a thin tendril.

This core can be observed with a recording device looking directly upward through the antennal tubes above the prey or targeted prey.

As long as this core is not observed, SCP-312 will remain compliant and appears to be able to survive indefinitely without feeding, although feeding does increase its mass and movement speed as well as quantity [REDACTED].

However, if a predator makes eye contact with the core, SCP-312 will become active, creating narrow, controlled vortices and the emergence of a long cloud tube connecting the cylindrical cloud above to the ground.

Prey are pulled into SCP-312's tentacles by strong updrafts in the vortex, paralyzed by the tentacles' stingers, and then digested.

Over the course of approximately a week, partially digested prey will fall from the sky where SCP-312 disappeared.

After a successful hunt, SCP-312 will drift aimlessly until another prey is nearby.

Based on incident reports, the Foundation believes there are at least three (3) unmanned instances of SCP-312 in the wild.

Recovery efforts are extremely difficult, as SCP-312 often follows a person for months or years before its effects are triggered.

SCP-312 Air Jellyfish is contained in an indoor containment facility. We will not feed SCP-312 Air Jellyfish. All personnel entering the room must wear wide-brimmed hats and cannot look up. After watching SCP-312 Air Jellyfish

The jellyfish's lunch is now available.

So if you encounter one, run away to a bomb shelter or something like that and don’t stay there.