The following is a partial transcript of the operation conducted on 21 May 1997. The field team consisted of Researchers Collins and Berry and Junior Researcher Nguyen, and was overseen by Dr. Hardy from Site-144.

Berry: Alright, we're in. Retracting the drill now. Ready with the scope?

Collins: Got it.

Approximately three minutes pass. Conversation not relevant to operation removed.

Berry: I'm lowering in the cable, and video should be live soon. Is your connection okay, doctor?

Hardy: Everything looks fine on this end. Go ahead.

Berry: Few more seconds, and… there we go. Okay, I'm seeing an adult on the cave floor, dead or unconscious. Looks male, maybe forty or fifty years old.

Hardy: Confirmed. Looks like a hiker. I'll check out any local disappearances.

Berry: Nothing else here stands out to me. Looks like normal granite. I'll… shit, the camera just cut out. Harry, can you tell what's…

Nguyen: Um.

Berry: Where did… Harry? Harry?

Nguyen: He just, uh. Disappeared. Right when the video died.

Hardy: Tell me you're joking.

Berry: Never, sir, Collins is gone.

Nguyen: And the seismo is suddenly going nuts.

Hardy: Jesus. I'm sending in backup. Ninety minutes away. Keep me updated.

Six minutes pass.

Nguyen: Doctor, are you there?

Hardy: Just got in the truck. What's happening?

Nguyen: We pulled up the camera, and there was just cable. Looks like it got cut. Zoe put in the spare, and the borehole is filled in after about ten meters.

Hardy: Well shit. I want you two to start drilling again. Harry might have joined our hiker friend, and he'll need air.

Nguyen: Understood.

Approximately 35 minutes later Berry and Nguyen finish drilling into SCP-3065, and the scope is reinserted along with a small speaker. The light from Collins' headlamp can be seen as the scope enters the cave.

Berry: Harry, are you okay? Can you hear me?

Collins: I'm here. Doing okay, just some bleeding. You fuckers… drilled into me…

Berry: Shit, really? That's terrible luck. We'll throw down some bandages and-

Collins: No, I… you drilled in… Look. *panting* This cave is weird. It looks like a big hollow person, arms, legs, dick, everything. It moves when I move, like it mimics me. I'm sitting in my ass cheek right now.

Berry: What.

Collins: When the drill broke through there I felt something pinch my shoulder… The wound is way smaller than the bit though, barely any blood. The dead guy has the same hole in him.

Berry: Huh. Okay. The big guns will be here in about an hour. What's the air situation? You breathing okay?

Collins: It's definitely getting to me. Probably okay for a while with the hole.

Berry: Alright. Let me think for a second. The guys coming will have oxygen, so we were gonna widen the borehole enough to lower it down to you. But I don't want to hurt you more if we can avoid it.

Collins: It's not life-threatening, Zoe. Just give-

The borehole is closed off. Recording ends.