THE DOCUMENT
LLE-UAP-D001, “Transcript of an Unresolved UAP Report Colorado October 2023”, a Department of War record from the U.S. Department of War’s PURSUE Release 06, published at war.gov/ufo on 18 September 2026, briefed with four video records from the same release, each also on DVIDS: LLE-UAP-PR001, “Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, 2023” (video 1023409, asset DOD_111985834.mp4, length 00:01:19 by DVIDS), and LLE-UAP-PR002, LLE-UAP-PR003 and LLE-UAP-PR004, each “Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, October 2023” (videos 1023412, 1023414 and 1023416; assets DOD_111985844.mp4, DOD_111985850.mp4 and DOD_111985855.mp4; 00:15:00, 00:00:27 and 00:01:42). The first title is the release’s, taken from the file name; the others are the DVIDS titles. The page prints its own bold title, the same words with a comma after Report and after Colorado, read from the page image. LLE-UAP-D001 is one US letter page, issued as a single flattened image with no text layer at all: the PDF holds no fonts and yields no text. It is the only record in the release issued that way, so nothing on it is quoted here, and every reading of it is from the page image. The letterhead is that of the Office of the Under Secretary of War, beside a Department of War seal with INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY beneath it. The page carries no classification marking, stamp, signature, file number, page number or release footer. Six black boxes carry codes printed in white. The PDF’s metadata gives Department of War as author, 18 September 2026 as the creation date and, as title, the record ID with the page’s title, the only place inside the file where the ID appears. The four clips are portrait videos, 608 by 1,080 pixels, each of a dark sky.
Why this one is worth your time
This package opens a new series in the release’s numbering. D001 is the first document to carry the prefix LLE-UAP-, PR001 to PR004 are the video records under it, and nothing else in Release 06 carries it. Neither D001 nor any of the four official descriptions says what the letters stand for.
It is also a record of speech: the page says that an officer narrates what is seen as the UAP is recorded on video, and it gives one minute of that narration. The Department publishes four clips beside it and describes each in its own words, and the two sources do not meet: the descriptions quote the officer in words the transcript does not contain, and no record says which clip, if any, the transcript belongs to.
What the document says
The page. Under the letterhead and the title, a four-line italic preface says that the document is a transcript from a UAP sighting by local law enforcement in Colorado; that the law enforcement officer narrates what is seen as the UAP is recorded on video; and that to protect the identity of the source, as well as law enforcement activities, the transcript has been edited to remove potentially identifying information. A bold line, Beginning of transcript., follows. The transcript runs in five blocks headed by timecodes fifteen seconds apart, [00:00] to [01:00]. Spoken lines are labelled Speaker, with no name, rank or agency; three lines are labelled Background Radio, and two are sound cues in parentheses. Everything in this section about D001 is read from the page image.
The minute. At [00:00] the speaker says it is, followed by a box, then approximately and a second box before hours; then that the speaker is at mile marker, followed by a third box, the printed characters I- and a fourth box, and westbound direction; and that the speaker is watching another orb that is flying approximately, where the block breaks off on an ellipsis. At [00:15] the sentence resumes, 300 feet up off the ground, and the speaker says radar was checked and there is no aircraft flying in the area. A background radio line follows, holding nothing but a box between full stops. At [00:30] a radio fragment reads only clearance, between ellipses; the speaker says this has been flying stationary for about 15 minutes; a further radio line reads copy, then a box. The [00:45] block is a single cue, the sound of vehicles passing, with no speech. At [01:00] a cue records the sound of a large truck passing, and the speaker’s last line is that the craft is flying closer to the speaker now, and that the speaker can see it. The page ends there.
The words. The speaker’s words for the object are orb, after the word another, and craft. UAP appears three times, in the title and twice in the preface, and never in a speaker line. The transcript gives a height, a radar check, a duration and a movement; it gives no shape beyond the word orb, and no size, colour or light, and no sound from the object.
The six boxes. Four sit in the [00:00] block: after it is, after approximately, after mile marker, and after the printed I-. Each is labelled (b) (7)(A), (b) (7)(C). The other two sit in the radio lines at [00:15] and [00:30], each labelled (b) (7)(A). The page has no legend for the codes; the preface says only that, to protect the identity of the source and law enforcement activities, the transcript was edited to remove potentially identifying information.
The clips, as the Department describes them. Each of the four descriptions says that a local law enforcement officer submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, consisting of video footage from the rear-facing camera of a commercially available cellular device in October 2023, and each carries the same sentence on what the reporting officer described (quoted below). Each says that AARO digitally altered the footage by blurring the bottom half, for the reason quoted below; the PR003 and PR004 descriptions limit this to the first 2 seconds. Their timed lines, most of them quoted below, keep the camera on an apparent light source; the PR004 description adds two stretches, 00:36 to 01:04 and 01:28 to 01:37, in which an approaching vehicle influences the camera’s automatic image-processing filters, and ends with the camera panning down. Each ends with a note that it is provided for informational purposes only, and with an AARO Comment that the autofocus and automated image processing of such devices may distort the apparent morphological and kinematic characteristics of distant subjects, particularly at high magnification.
The descriptions’ own text. The PR002 description gives its footage as “1 minute and 19 seconds of video footage”, the length the PR001 description gives, where its own timed line runs 00:00 to 15:00 and DVIDS lists 00:15:00. As served on its DVIDS page, the same description opens, before that sentence, with a line reading “PURSUE Title:” followed by the record’s ID and title. Both are in the description text as the page rendered it on 23 September 2026. The PR001 title is the only one of the four without the month.
The frames. Read from the frames for this briefing: each clip shows a dark sky with a small point of light in it, and none carries on-screen text, a time stamp or a caption. In PR001 and PR002 the lower part of the picture is smoothed throughout. In PR003 a pale smoothed mass covers the lower part at 00:00 and is gone from 00:01, and thin straight lines cross the sky, as they do in PR002. PR004 is mostly black: a pale mass lies along its foot for about the first ten seconds and again at 00:31 to 00:32, and glows fill its lower part in two later stretches.
What the document does not say
It does not say who. The page names no police force, sheriff’s office or other agency, no county or city, and no officer’s name or rank: Sheriff, Police, county and city return no hits in this project’s OCR of the page, and the image carries no law enforcement badge, logo or unit name. The letterhead is the Office of the Under Secretary of War’s, and the page does not say who transcribed the recording or how that office came to hold it.
It does not say when or where, beyond the title’s October 2023. The body has no day and no year, and the entry before hours is boxed. No place narrower than Colorado survives: the boxes after mile marker and after the printed I- leave only westbound direction. The descriptions also give October 2023 and no day.
It does not say how long the recording ran. The transcript stops after the speaker’s line under [01:00], with no closing line, and the rest of the sheet is blank. The speaker says at [00:30] that it has been stationary for about 15 minutes; if the timecodes count from the start of the recording, most of that time falls before the transcript begins, an inference the page does not state.
It does not say which clip. The page names no file, asset number, clip or length; video occurs once, in the preface. None of the four descriptions names D001, a transcript or any document, although five other Release 06 descriptions each name a record of the release: DOW-UAP-PR133, PR135, PR140 and PR141 a mission report, and DOW-UAP-PR159 the case file DOW-UAP-D102. The numbering of D001 beside PR001 states no pairing, and the first sentence of each description begins “A local law enforcement officer” without saying whether the four reports came from one officer or from more than one. PR003, at 00:00:27 by DVIDS, is shorter than the minute the transcript’s timecodes cover, if those are the video’s own timecodes, which the page does not say. PR002 runs fifteen minutes; neither it nor the transcript ties that length to the speaker’s 15 minutes.
The officer’s words in the descriptions are not on the page. Silent, red, blue, green, flashing and light return no hits in this project’s OCR of D001, and none of them is on the page image. The transcript records no colour and no sound from the object, and none of the four descriptions says where or when the officer described the phenomenon as “silent” and as featuring “red, blue, and green flashing lights”.
Nor can the narration be heard in the clips: measured by this project on the issued files, the audio track of each of the four is digital silence, mean and maximum volume minus 91.0 dB.
Nothing of a personal kind is left unredacted: D001 carries no name, address, vehicle plate or telephone number, and nothing legible in the frames identifies a person, a vehicle or a premises.
From the record
The reporting officer described the phenomenon as “silent” and as featuring “red, blue, and green flashing lights.”
LLE-UAP-PR001, the second sentence of the official description, which the descriptions of LLE-UAP-PR002, LLE-UAP-PR003 and LLE-UAP-PR004 repeat word for word; neither quoted phrase, and none of the words silent, red, blue, green or flashing, is on LLE-UAP-D001
00:00-00:47: The camera pans to track an apparent light source, keeping it generally centered within the frame.
LLE-UAP-PR001, the first of the description’s two timed lines
00:48-01:19: The camera increases and decreases its level of magnification several times and continues to pan to track the apparent light source.
LLE-UAP-PR001, the description’s second and last timed line
00:00-15:00: The camera focuses on an apparent light source for the duration of the video, keeping it generally centered within the frame.
LLE-UAP-PR002, the description’s only timed line, in the description whose opening sentence gives the footage as 1 minute and 19 seconds
00:00-00:27: The camera increases its level of magnification and focuses on an apparent light source for the duration of the video, keeping it generally centered and within the top third of the frame.
LLE-UAP-PR003, the description’s only timed line
Video Description: In the first 2 seconds of this video, AARO digitally altered this footage by blurring the bottom half to obscure information whose release could be reasonably expected to affect the privacy or other protected interest of a U.S. person or commercial entity.
LLE-UAP-PR003, the statement of alteration, which the LLE-UAP-PR004 description repeats word for word; the LLE-UAP-PR001 and LLE-UAP-PR002 descriptions make the same statement without the first 2 seconds
00:36-01:04: An approaching vehicle influences the camera’s automatic image-processing filters, including autofocus. The camera remains focused on the apparent light source.
LLE-UAP-PR004, the second of the description’s five timed lines, two complete sentences, which the fourth line, for 01:28 to 01:37, repeats word for word
Where the case connects
DOW-UAP-D154, the release’s transcript of a 1952 presentation, is laid out the same way on its first page: the same letterhead, seal and INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY, a bold title, an italic preface opening “This document is a transcript”, and the same bold line, Beginning of transcript. (p. 1). Unlike D001 it was issued with a text layer, and it closes on “End of recording; nothing follows.” (p. 19). Release 06 Briefing 5 covers it.
Release 05 Briefing 10 covers two FBI interview forms, FBI-UAP-D026 and FBI-UAP-D030, on October 2023 sightings at Colorado Springs, Colorado, both of triangles. D001 gives the same state and month; it names no city, its speaker’s word is orb, and neither D001 nor the four descriptions mentions the FBI or either form. That briefing found every redaction in the two forms to be a plain black bar with no exemption code; every box on D001 carries one.
Release 05 Briefing 12 met one FBI page released with no text layer, page 2 of FBI-UAP-D040, and gave its content as read from the page image, quoting none of it. D001 is handled the same way; here the page without a text layer is the whole record.
Read it yourself
LLE-UAP-D001, “Transcript of an Unresolved UAP Report Colorado October 2023”, is hosted at war.gov in PURSUE Release 06; it is one page, and it has to be read as an image. LLE-UAP-PR001, “Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, 2023”, and LLE-UAP-PR002 to LLE-UAP-PR004, each “Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, October 2023”, are in the same release and on DVIDS at dvidshub.net, video IDs 1023409, 1023412, 1023414 and 1023416, where each page carries its official description.
Read the file. Decide for yourself.
Related wiki entries
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References and further reading
- LLE-UAP-D001, “Transcript of an Unresolved UAP Report Colorado October 2023”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- LLE-UAP-PR001, “Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, 2023”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo and on DVIDS, video ID 1023409
- LLE-UAP-PR002, “Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, October 2023”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo and on DVIDS, video ID 1023412
- LLE-UAP-PR003, “Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, October 2023”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo and on DVIDS, video ID 1023414
- LLE-UAP-PR004, “Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, October 2023”, PURSUE Release 06, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo and on DVIDS, video ID 1023416
- Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), U.S. Department of War, war.gov/ufo
- AARO UAP Records, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, aaro.mil/UAP-Records
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 06 Briefing 5, on DOW-UAP-D154, the release’s other transcript on the same letterhead
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 05 Briefing 10, on FBI-UAP-D026 and FBI-UAP-D030, two FBI interviews on October 2023 sightings at Colorado Springs
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 05 Briefing 12, on FBI-UAP-D037 and FBI-UAP-D040, and a page released with no text layer