THE DOCUMENT
FBI-UAP-D001 (“FD-302, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022”), FBI-UAP-D002 (“FD-1057, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022”) and ICA-UAP-D001 (“Analysis, Colorado Springs UAP Incident”) are three documents from the U.S. Department of War’s PURSUE Release 03, published at war.gov/ufo and cleared 12 June 2026. The first two are Federal Bureau of Investigation forms (an interview report and a forensic-sketch interview); the third is an Intelligence Community analysis of the same sighting. A fourth file, FBI-UAP-D003, is a digital rendering of the object and is the accompanying image to this cluster.
Why this one is worth your time
A single sighting here arrives as a small dossier rather than one page: two FBI forms recording what the witnesses said, and a separate Intelligence Community analysis that proposes an explanation. The three documents agree on the broad event and differ on some of the particulars, including the date and time. This briefing sets out what each one records, notes where they line up and where they diverge, and leaves the explanation as the analysis itself frames it.
What the documents say
The cluster concerns one event: five U.S. Army service members who reported a stationary object near Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, in early 2022. The three written files approach it from different angles.
The FBI interview report (FBI-UAP-D001, an FD-302). This form records an interview conducted in 2025 with one of the witnesses, a member of a U.S. Army unit. By his account the sighting happened on a workday in early February 2022, at approximately 1:00 or 2:00PM, near Fort Carson, as he and four others walked toward a building and looked west toward Cheyenne Mountain. He describes an object that appeared to be hovering in a low “saddle” of the mountain: matte white or off-white, non-metallic, oval and horizontal with a curved indentation on the bottom, which he called “bean-shaped”. The form records that the object was completely motionless, made no sound, and was covered in intersecting lines forming an abstract polygon pattern. He estimated its size as about a tenth of the mountain saddle, or a pool cue at arm’s length. The five watched it for roughly three to five minutes; when they looked away to fetch a phone for a video and looked back, it had gone. The form adds that each man independently drew the object afterwards and the drawings were consistent, and that the witness was contacted by AARO in early 2024 but says he was never interviewed.
The FBI forensic-sketch interview (FBI-UAP-D002, an FD-1057). This 2024 form documents a separate session, conducted with a forensic artist to reconstruct the object for a sketch. It describes the same Cheyenne Mountain sighting by a former U.S. Army intelligence officer who was with four other unit members. Here the day is recorded as a clear “blue bird” sky around 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and the object is described as “potato” shaped with distinct edges, a creamy or whitish opalescent colour, somewhat translucent with a slight shimmer. The form records the object’s surface as resembling “articulating fish scales or panels” that were non-symmetrical, non-overlapping and irregular, with each panel shifting in slow waves while the object itself stayed perfectly still. After about two minutes it vanished; the form records the witness’s statement that it “cloaked” in the time it took to turn a head, with no shadow. The sketch draft is noted as attached.
The Intelligence Community analysis (ICA-UAP-D001). This document analyses the same sighting and reaches a tentative explanation. Its subject line states the case as “An Airborne Object Over Cheyenne Mountain in February 2022 was Possible Backscattering of Sunlight”. The analysis places the event at 0935 MNT on 15 February 2022 (and elsewhere refers to 0945 MST on February 15, 2022), about six miles west over and slightly behind the Cheyenne Mountain silhouette, observed for roughly 30 to 180 seconds. It summarises the witnesses’ description as an angular, non-symmetrical, potato-shaped object of uneven panels, translucent and shimmering white, stationary 300 to 500 feet above the mountain while slowly changing shape, that suddenly disappeared. The document then sets out a possible prosaic cause: with the sun low in the southeast and snow on the mountain, backscattering of sunlight off snow-covered ground could have illuminated low-level cloud, which might account for the object’s appearance and its sudden disappearance when the cloud or the sun shifted. Analyst notes in the document explain altostratus cloud and backscattering. The analysis records explicitly that it holds low confidence in this assessment and that no aircraft or balloons were noted active in the area at the time.
The differences sit in the record, unadjudicated. The witnesses describe clear blue skies; the analysis notes that several weather reports indicated cloud and suggests the morning was partly to mostly cloudy. The FBI interview places the sighting at about 1:00 or 2:00PM in early February; the analysis places it mid-morning on 15 February. The shape is variously “bean-shaped” and “potato” shaped. All three files describe the same core event; the cluster preserves these differences rather than resolving them.
What the documents do not say
None of the documents states what the object was. The two FBI forms record witness accounts and a forensic reconstruction; by the FD-302’s own footer, the FBI form “contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI”. The Intelligence Community analysis offers backscattering of sunlight only as a possibility and records its own low confidence in that assessment.
The accounts come from witnesses recalling an event months or years earlier; the documents carry the dating and timing inconsistencies noted above without reconciling them. The files are heavily redacted: names, the precise location, contact details and case identifiers are withheld throughout.
FBI-UAP-D003, the digital rendering, is an illustration of the reported object rather than a photograph of it; it is a visualisation accompanying the file, not independent imaging of the event.
From the record
“bean-shaped” FBI-UAP-D001, the FD-302, the witness’s description of the object
“An Airborne Object Over Cheyenne Mountain in February 2022 was Possible Backscattering of Sunlight” ICA-UAP-D001, the analysis, its own subject line
No anomalous data or characteristics were recorded or assessed, and the event did not represent an unknown adversarial capability. ICA-UAP-D001, the analysis
No aircraft or balloons were noted active in or around Cheyenne Mountain during the time the witnesses saw the airborne object. ICA-UAP-D001, the analysis
Where the case connects
This is one of two modern FBI cases in Release 03. The other is the cluster of Northeastern US orb reports (Release 03 Briefing R3-02), a separate set of FBI FD-1057 and FD-302 forms documenting different witnesses and a different kind of object. The two cases share only the agency and the recent timeframe; the Colorado Springs object is a single stationary daytime shape, the Northeastern reports concern repeated orb and light activity.
The cluster also leaves its own loose ends. The forensic sketch is noted as attached but is not itself a public part of this text; the analysis records low confidence and an unresolved tension between the witnesses’ clear-sky accounts and the weather reporting it cites; and the FD-302 records that AARO contacted one witness in 2024 without a follow-up interview. Any later release that surfaces the sketch, the AARO correspondence, or a fuller assessment of this sighting lands in this series when it does.
Read it yourself
FBI-UAP-D001 (“FD-302, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022”), FBI-UAP-D002 (“FD-1057, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022”), ICA-UAP-D001 (“Analysis, Colorado Springs UAP Incident”) and the digital rendering FBI-UAP-D003 are hosted at war.gov in PURSUE Release 03.
Read the files. Decide for yourself.
References and further reading
- FBI-UAP-D001, “FD-302, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022”, PURSUE Release 03, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- FBI-UAP-D002, “FD-1057, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022”, PURSUE Release 03, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- FBI-UAP-D003, “Digital Rendering, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022”, PURSUE Release 03, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- ICA-UAP-D001, “Analysis, Colorado Springs UAP Incident”, PURSUE Release 03, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, 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 03 Briefing R3-02, on the Northeastern US orb reports