LLE-UAP-PR004, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, January 2024
Colorado UAP cellphone video: police report (2024)
niche or mildly interesting
UAP Insight significance score
- Location
- Colorado
- Incident date
- October, 2023
- Duration
- 1 minute 42 seconds of video footage
- Witnesses
- Single witness
- Released
- September 18, 2026
UAP Characteristics
Evidence Types
Official Conclusion
Unresolved
Official Description
A local law enforcement officer submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office consisting of 1 minute and 42 seconds of video footage from a commercially available cellular device’s rear-facing camera in January 2024. The reporting officer described the phenomenon as “silent” and as featuring “red, blue, and green flashing lights.” Video Description: In the first 2 seconds of this video, AARO digitally altered this footage by blurring the bottom half to obscure information whose release could be reasonably expected to affect the privacy or other protected interest of a U.S. person or commercial entity. 00:00-00:35: The camera focuses on an apparent light source, keeping it generally within the center of the frame. 00:36-01:04: An approaching vehicle influences the camera’s automatic image-processing filters, including autofocus. The camera remains focused on the apparent light source. 01:05-1:27: The camera remains focused on the apparent light source. 01:28-01:37: An approaching vehicle influences the camera’s automatic image-processing filters, including autofocus. The camera remains focused on the apparent light source. 01:38-01:42: The camera pans down. AARO Comment: Cellular devices of the type used to capture this footage employ autofocus and other automated image-processing functions that may distort the apparent morphological and kinematic characteristics of distant subjects, particularly at high magnification.
Key Findings
- →Officer reported a silent phenomenon with red, blue, and green flashing lights, captured on a cellular device rear camera.
- →Footage lasts 1 min 42 sec and keeps an apparent light source generally centered in frame throughout.
- →Approaching vehicles at 00:36-01:04 and 01:28-01:37 affected the camera's autofocus and automatic image processing.
- →AARO blurred the bottom half of the first 2 seconds of video to protect privacy or commercial information.
- →AARO cautions that autofocus and automated processing at high magnification may distort apparent morphology and kinematics of distant subjects.
A local law enforcement officer submitted a 1 minute 42 second cellphone video to AARO in January 2024 of a silent light source with red, blue, and green flashing lights, observed in Colorado in October 2023. The video shows a distant apparent light source kept near frame center, with autofocus disruptions from passing vehicles. AARO notes that cellular camera automated processing can distort the apparent shape and motion of distant subjects.
Analyst Notes
Single-source cellphone video with no corroborating sensor data. AARO itself warns that autofocus and image-processing artifacts can distort apparent shape and motion. The footage shows only a distant light with no scale, range, or kinematic data, and a conventional explanation such as an aircraft, drone, or distant light source is not ruled out. The report is titled unresolved, but the description offers no analysis of what the object was.
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