Colorado Springs triangle sightings, October 2023
October 2023 · Colorado Springs, Colorado
Summary
The FBI's PURSUE releases include two FD-302 interview reports about triangle sightings over Colorado Springs, Colorado, in October 2023. Both witnesses were interviewed years after the events. The day of the month is redacted in each report.
The first witness was interviewed in January 2026 by FBI agents and an analyst (FD-302 interview). He said he and his wife were on their back porch at about 10:50 PM when something flew over the house from the northeast toward the southwest (porch account). He put its height at possibly 300 feet and its size at roughly a large SUV. He described a triangle that looked see-through, with haze or ripples around it and a band of silverish blue light along the trailing edge (object description). He timed the sighting at four seconds, said it was silent, and said he had no time to take a photo or video (duration and sound). He said he knew USAF aircraft, including the latest unmanned drones, and that the object matched nothing he had seen (aircraft familiarity). The report says his wife also saw it.
The second witness was interviewed in October 2025 by an FBI supervisory special agent, a special agent and a task force officer (FD-302 interview). He said that between 8 and 9:30 PM in October 2023 he was working in Colorado Springs and looked at the stars with a co-worker. He saw a dark-gray cloud that looked pixelated or distorted (initial observation). A solid black equilateral triangle with a red light in each corner came out of the cloud. He thought it could have been as large as the parking lot where he stood, at 3000 to 5000 feet (size and altitude). He said it accelerated to possibly Mach 1 or 2, made no noise, and banked 90 degrees on its left side while veering right (movement). About 60 seconds later he phoned his wife, who said his voice sounded robotic (phone call).
The FBI also produced a set of five digital renderings of the first sighting, listed as FBI-UAP-D027 (rendering set). Neither FD-302 states a conclusion. Each says it contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI (doc 1) (doc 2).
What the files say
“The UAP looked like a perfect triangle, however because of his viewing angle, he couldn't definitively say whether it was isosceles or equilateral in shape.”
Page 2 →“The UAP was completely silent, and [REDACTED] did not feel any rumble, static, or any other effects from the object as it passed over him.”
Page 2 →“The UAP he and his wife observed did not match anything he encountered before.”
Page 3 →“[REDACTED] believed the UAP was at an altitude of 3000-5000 feet, comparable to small civilian aircraft in training flights.”
Page 2 →“The banking motion was opposite of a conventional aircraft would bank in the direction it was turning.”
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