FD-302, “Dark Translucent Triangle,” 2023
- Date
- Oct 2023
- Place
- Colorado Springs, Colorado (witness's residence), United States
- Record
- Pentagon file
- Assessment
- Not assessed
- Evidence strength
What was reported
FBI FD-302 recording a January 2026 interview of a former Department of War employee describing an October 2023 backyard sighting, co-witnessed by his wife. A roughly SUV-sized, low-flying (approx. 300 ft AGL) dark gray or silver triangular object passed overhead with a hazy, rippling, semi-translucent distortion around it, as if seen through mist or underwater, a silverish-blue light band along its trailing edge, moving fast and silently at constant altitude for about four seconds before banking up sharply near vertical without changing course, then vanishing.
What officials concluded
No conclusion stated
The file gives no official explanation.
- Agency
- FBI
- Released in
- 123456
Evidence profile
- Yes: Visual
- No: Infrared
- No: Radar
- Yes: Video
- Yes: 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
- Yes: Triangle
- No: Cylinder
- No: Cube
- No: Other shape
- No: Physiological
- No: Physical trace
- No: Electromagnetic
- No: Sound
- No: Silent
Why this rating Two independent, professionally-informed witnesses describing an unusual banking maneuver and visual distortion effect with no conventional explanation; capped below strong because it is a brief (4-second), unaided visual sighting with no video/photo or non-visual sensor data.
As described in the file
- Witnesses
- 2 witnesses (the interviewee and his wife, both firsthand)
- Sensors
- Visual only; no photo/video captured due to the sighting's brevity
- Shape
- Triangle, possibly isosceles or equilateral, rounded edges/corners, with a silverish-blue light band along the trailing edge
- Size
- Approximately the size of a large SUV at the estimated altitude
- Lights and colour
- Dark gray or silver body; silverish-blue trailing-edge light band
- Motion
- Moved fast in a straight path at constant altitude, then banked its left side up to near-vertical without changing course or elevation
- Duration
- Approximately 4 seconds total observation
- Altitude or range
- Approximately 300 feet AGL
- Effects
- None reported (no rumble, static or other felt effects)
Pentagon files
FBI-UAP-D026, FD-302, “Dark Translucent Triangle,” 2023
Open the original on war.gov
What the file claims
- Unverified
Both the witness and his wife saw a fast, silent, low-altitude triangular object surrounded by a rippling, mist-like distortion.
- Unverified
The object banked in a manner the witness, who is very familiar with USAF aircraft including drones, said did not match anything he had encountered before.
On the map
38.83° N, 104.82° W, plotted at the town or city
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