Colorado Law Enforcement UAP Videos (2023–2024) – PURSUE Files

These are the first local law enforcement UAP reports published under PURSUE. A Colorado officer submitted four cell-phone videos to AARO, three from October 2023 and one from January 2024, describing the phenomenon as “silent” with “red, blue, and green flashing lights.” AARO blurred the lower half of the frames and removed the audio to protect private information, and released redacted transcripts of what was said instead.^[1]

The videos

LLE-UAP-PR001, Colorado, October 2023 (1 min 19 s) — official upload on DVIDS (public domain).

LLE-UAP-PR002, Colorado, October 2023 (15 min) — official upload on DVIDS (public domain).

LLE-UAP-PR003, Colorado, October 2023 (27 s) — official upload on DVIDS (public domain).

LLE-UAP-PR004, Colorado, January 2024 (1 min 42 s) — official upload on DVIDS (public domain).

In each video the camera stays fixed on a single point of light, zooming in and out. In the 15-minute video (PR002) the light stays centered for the whole recording. In PR004, headlights from passing vehicles make the phone’s autofocus and exposure jump. AARO adds that phone cameras “employ autofocus and other automated image-processing functions that may distort the apparent morphological and kinematic characteristics of distant subjects, particularly at high magnification.”^[1]

Analysis

Most likely explanation: a twinkling star or planet. Bright stars low in the sky flicker rapidly through red, blue and green because turbulence in the atmosphere splits their light like a prism (scintillation). Zoomed phone cameras exaggerate this, often turning the star into a pulsing, color-changing blob that seems to move as the autofocus hunts. The details here fit that pattern closely:

• completely silent, with no reported movement across the sky beyond what tracking requires;
• observed for up to 15 minutes in one spot, which rules out most aircraft;
• October–January nights, when Sirius (the brightest star, famous for this effect) and Capella sit low in Colorado’s sky, and when Jupiter was unusually bright (opposition was November 3, 2023).^[2]

This explanation cannot be confirmed without the date, time and direction for each video, which were withheld. Readers in Colorado can test it by checking a sky app for the same dates. Colorado also had a wave of nighttime “drone” reports in late 2019 and early 2020, many of which were later attributed to aircraft, stars and planets.

New or previously released? New. These videos and transcripts were not previously public.

Released files

See also

• AARO
• PURSUE Release 06 overview
• PURSUE

References

1. ^ U.S. Department of War (2026). PURSUE Release 06, LLE-UAP-PR001 to PR004 and LLE-UAP-D001 to D004, with official descriptions. war.gov/ufo.
2. ^ NASA / Sky & Telescope, guidance on stellar scintillation and Jupiter’s November 3, 2023 opposition.