FD-302, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022
- Date
- Feb 2022
- Place
- Colorado Springs, Colorado (near Fort Carson, Cheyenne Mountain), United States
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
FD-302 interview (conducted via Microsoft Teams, entered March/April 2025) with a U.S. military service member describing a February 2022 sighting. While walking from a parked vehicle toward a Fort Carson building with four other soldiers, he and all four others noticed a matte white/off-white, non-metallic, oval 'bean-shaped' object with a curved bottom indentation, hovering motionless and silently over a low point ('saddle') in Cheyenne Mountain for 3-5 minutes with no positional drift, covered in intersecting lines forming an abstract polygon pattern, roughly 10% the size of the saddle (about a pool cue at arm's length). None of the five had a phone ready; by the time one went to get one, the object had vanished and could not be relocated. The five independently drew what they saw afterward, and the drawings matched. AARO contacted the witness in early 2024 but never conducted a follow-up interview after his written response.
What officials concluded
Unresolved
The file gives no official explanation.
- Agency
- FBI
- Released in
- 123456
AARO comment
AARO has since been in contact with the interviewee to conduct subsequent interviews to inform its analysis of this incident.
Evidence profile
- Yes: Visual
- No: Infrared
- No: Radar
- No: Video
- No: Photo
- No: Film
- No: Audio
- No: Night vision
- No: Other sensor
- No: Civilian
- No: Military aircrew
- No: Military ground
- No: Airline crew
- No: Sensor operator
- No: Law enforcement
- No: Scientist
- No: Astronaut
- No: Intelligence official
- Yes: Other
- No: Light only
- No: Orb or sphere
- No: Disc
- No: Triangle
- No: Cylinder
- No: Cube
- Yes: Other shape
- No: Physiological
- No: Physical trace
- No: Electromagnetic
- No: Sound
- No: Silent
Why this rating Five simultaneous, independent eyewitnesses in a military setting with corroborating post-hoc sketches, no proposed conventional explanation offered or found by the witnesses (they considered and rejected blimp/balloon), and specific described features (silent, motionless for minutes, patterned surface); still limited to unaided visual observation with no photo, video or instrumented sensor.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- 5 U.S. Army personnel, simultaneous, unaided visual, with independently drawn sketches later compared and found consistent
- Sensors
- Visual
- Shape
- Oval, horizontal, 'bean-shaped,' curved indentation on the bottom, covered in intersecting lines forming an abstract polygon pattern
- Size
- About 10% of the mountain saddle's apparent width; about the size of a pool cue held at arm's length
- Lights and colour
- Matte white or off-white, non-metallic
- Motion
- Completely motionless; did not drift with the wind
- Duration
- Approximately 3-5 minutes
- Altitude or range
- Hovering in a low point/saddle of Cheyenne Mountain, distance not specified
- Effects
- None reported; completely silent
Pentagon files
FBI-UAP-D001, FD-302, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022
Open the original on war.gov
What the file claims
- Unverified
Five soldiers independently drew the object after the fact and all five drawings matched in showing a horizontal, white, bean-shaped object with abstract crossing lines.
- Unverified
The witness was contacted by AARO in early 2024 but was never actually interviewed by AARO or anyone else afterward.
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38.80° N, 104.82° W, plotted at the town or city
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