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Department of War PURSUE File

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

Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.·2022

Declassified

Editorial summary

This image is a digital artistic rendering of a 2022 incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena reported near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The FBI created the rendering from the first-hand narrative description recorded in a related interview document, FBI-UAP-D002. According to that record, a witness described an object over Cheyenne Mountain as potato shaped with an opalescent color and shifting panels. This image represents the FBI forensic art unit's visual interpretation of that account.

Editorial summary written by govweird from the declassified document text. The official government description follows below.

Government description

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”.

Caption issued by the U.S. Department of War on war.gov/ufo. Verbatim, unedited.

Originating agency

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Record type

PDF

Incident date

2022

Incident location

Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.

Release tranche

Release 03 (May 8, 2026)

Distribution

Cleared for public release

Original document

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Source: war.gov/ufo · PURSUE Release 03

PURSUE = Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. Records released by the U.S. Department of War on May 8, 2026 are unresolved cases for which the government cannot make a definitive determination, and the Department has invited private-sector analysis.