08/08/2026
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO — OCTOBER 2023
A newly declassified FBI report released August 7, 2026, through the government’s PURSUE Release 05 documents an extraordinary eyewitness encounter with a massive, solid-black triangular object over Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The three-page FBI FD-302, titled “Large Triangle with Red Lights,” records an October 2025 interview concerning an encounter that occurred sometime in October 2023, between approximately 8:00 and 9:30 PM.
The exact day, witness identity, workplace and several geographic references remain redacted.
However, the FBI report itself establishes that the encounter occurred in the Colorado Springs area, and local Colorado Springs news organizations have independently identified the case as a Colorado Springs UAP encounter.
The witness was apparently familiar with the area's busy aviation environment. According to the FBI:
“He frequently watches aircraft, military, commercial and civilian fly in the airspace above and around Colorado Springs.”
On the night of the encounter, the witness walked over to a coworker and the two began looking at the stars. The sky was described as clear.
The witness first noticed an unusually bright star and watched it for approximately 5–10 seconds.
Then something caught his peripheral vision.
He looked upward and to his left and saw what the FBI report describes as a:
“dark-gray colored cloud phasing into his sight.”
The cloud was stationary.
But something about it looked wrong.
The witness told FBI agents that it appeared:
“very strange, as if it was pixelated or distorted in some other manner.”
Then something began emerging from it.
The witness first saw a constant, diffuse red light at what appeared to be the bottom/front point of a solid black triangular object moving out of the cloud toward the south/southeast.
As more of the object emerged, it became progressively wider until the witness could see the entire craft.
He described a solid black equilateral triangle with a red light positioned at each of its three corners.
And it was enormous.
The witness estimated that the triangle:
“could have been as large as the parking lot in which he was standing.”
He further estimated its vertical thickness as equivalent to a three- to five-story building.
At arm's length, each of the three red lights appeared approximately the size of a fingernail.
Initially, the object traveled south and slightly east at a steady speed the witness compared to a helicopter.
He estimated its altitude at approximately 3,000–5,000 feet, similar to the altitude at which he had observed small civilian aircraft conducting training flights.
Then its behavior changed dramatically.
According to the FBI:
“It then almost instantaneously accelerated to possibly Mach 1 or 2.”
The triangle changed direction slightly, heading south or southwest.
At that point the witness noticed another unusual physical effect.
There appeared to be waves surrounding and radiating from the object.
He compared the effect to the shimmering optical distortion visible when looking down a hot roadway into the distance — essentially a heat-mirage-like distortion surrounding the craft.
Despite its apparent size, proximity and extraordinary acceleration, the witness reported:
NO SOUND.
NO VISIBLE PROPULSION.
NO UNUSUAL ODOR.
The FBI report states that the object appeared to pass almost directly over the witness's position, although the geographic reference immediately following that statement remains redacted.
Then came perhaps the strangest maneuver of the encounter.
The triangle abruptly banked approximately 90 degrees onto its LEFT side while its three red lights remained visible.
But instead of turning left, the object veered RIGHT.
It then rapidly returned to level flight.
The witness specifically pointed out that the maneuver appeared contrary to conventional aircraft behavior:
“The banking motion was opposite of a conventional aircraft would bank in the direction it was turning.”
The object continued south until the witness lost sight of it behind or beyond another redacted geographic feature.
He then looked back toward the place where the object had originally appeared.
The strange stationary, pixelated dark-gray “cloud” was gone.
Approximately 60 seconds after the encounter, the witness called his wife to tell her what had happened.
She immediately noticed something unusual about the call.
According to the FBI report, she told him that:
“his voice sounded robotic, as if there was electronic interference occurring with the call.”
The witness's cellular provider is also redacted.
📄 SOURCE: FBI FD-302
FBI-UAP-D030 — “Large Triangle with Red Lights,” 2023
PURSUE Release 05 — August 7, 2026