IC AgencyPDFTier 2 · Documented firsthand reportPartially redactedLuminous
Analysis: Colorado Springs UAP Incident, 2022
ICA-UAP-D001 · Release 03 (6/12)
Agency
IC Agency
Document type
PDF
Sighting type
Luminous
Location
Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. (United States)
Incident date
2022
Release
Release 03 (6/12)
Evidence tier
Tier 2 · Documented firsthand report
What the document says
This document contains analysis by an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) Intelligence Community (IC) partner to account for a 2022 incident involving an airborne object near Colorado Springs, Colorado. U.S. military service members reported the incident to AARO in 2023. AARO’s IC partner assessed, with low confidence, that the reported phenomenon, which observers characterized as resembling an “angular, non-symmetrical potato,” was attributable to sunlight backscattering, where sunlight reflecting from mountain snow cover illuminated the underside of low-altitude clouds. This low-confidence assessment contributes to AARO’s consideration of the incident, which remains unresolved as of June 2026.
This is one of 1 IC Agency records in the declassified archive, and one of 8 cases describing a luminous, reported in the United States region. It was published in Release 03 (6/12).
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