Colorado Springs UAP Incident (2022) – PURSUE Files

In February 2022, U.S. military service members near Colorado Springs, home to several Space Force and Air Force installations, reported a motionless, silent object that one later described to the FBI as “bean shaped,” matte white, and covered in “intersecting lines or ridges which formed an abstract polygon pattern.” Others likened it to an “angular, non-symmetrical potato.” The incident was reported to AARO in 2023 and the FBI interviewed a witness in March 2025.^[1]

The records

FBI-UAP-D001, FD-302, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022

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This document is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) FD-302, a form the FBI uses to record interviews. This FD-302 contains a summary of an interview with a U.S. military service member in March 2025 regarding a February 2022 incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). The individual described the phenomenon as being “bean shaped,” “matte white” or “off-white” in color, with a surface covered in “intersecting lines or ridges which formed an abstract polygon pattern.” The individual described the phenomenon as “motionless” and that “no sound could be heard coming from it.” FBI Note: AARO has since been in contact with the interviewee to conduct subsequent interviews to inform its analysis of this incident.

— Official PURSUE description

FBI-UAP-D002, FD-1057, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022

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This document is an FBI FD-1057, a form the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses to record investigative activity. This FD-1057 contains a first-hand narrative description of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) reported near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The interviewee provided this statement to FBI special agents to aid in producing a digital artistic interpretation of the incident.

— Official PURSUE description

FBI-UAP-D003, Digital Rendering, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022

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This image is an artistic interpretation of a 2022 incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) reported near Colorado Springs, Colorado. This image is derived from the first-hand narrative description contained in “FBI-UAP-D002, FD-1057, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022”.

— Official PURSUE description

ICA-UAP-D001, Analysis: Colorado Springs UAP Incident, 2022

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This document contains analysis by an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) Intelligence Community (IC) partner to account for a 2022 incident involving an airborne object near Colorado Springs, Colorado. U.S. military service members reported the incident to AARO in 2023. AARO’s IC partner assessed, with low confidence, that the reported phenomenon, which observers characterized as resembling an “angular, non-symmetrical potato,” was attributable to sunlight backscattering, where sunlight reflecting from mountain snow cover illuminated the underside of low-altitude clouds. This low-confidence assessment contributes to AARO’s consideration of the incident, which remains unresolved as of June 2026.

— Official PURSUE description

Analysis

Official assessment. An AARO intelligence-community partner assessed, with low confidence, that the “object” was sunlight backscattering: light reflecting off snow on the Front Range mountains illuminated the underside of low clouds, creating a bright, oddly shaped patch that looked solid.^[1] This fits the reported lack of motion and sound, and the textured “polygon” surface, which resembles cloud structure. AARO has not closed the case.

New or previously released? New.

Released files

See also

• Colorado law enforcement UAP videos (2023–2024)
• AARO
• FBI
• PURSUE Release 03 (June 12, 2026) overview
• PURSUE

References

1. ^ U.S. Department of War (2026). PURSUE Release 03 (June 12, 2026): FBI-UAP-D001, FBI-UAP-D002, FBI-UAP-D003, ICA-UAP-D001, with official descriptions. war.gov/ufo.