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FD-302, “Large Triangle with Red Lights,” 2023

File

FBI-UAP-D030

Type

Document, 3 pages

Agency

FBI

Date

2023

Place

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Released

Release 5, August 7, 2026

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The government's description

This document is an FBI FD-302, a form the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses to record interviews. This FD-302 records an October 2025 interview with a U.S. Person, in which the interviewee describes an incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in October 2023. An FBI digital rendering based upon the observer’s description accompanies this document, under the title FBI-UAP-D031.

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On October ■, 2025
Supervisory Special Agent
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After being advised
of the ident ity of the interv iewing agents and the nature of the interview ,
provided the fo llowing information :
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frequen tl y watches aircraft , mi l itary, commercia l a nd c i v ilian
fly in the airspace above and around Colorado Spri ngs.
On October .
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, 2023 between 8-9:30PM , -
was
wal ked over to his co- worker named
and began l ooking up , admi ring the stars on a clear n i ght.
As l ooked up , he not i ced a very bright star in the sky , which
initia ll y drew his a ttention. was observ i ng the star for about 5- 10
seconds when he noticed movement in his l eft peripheral vision. looked further up and to his left and saw what appeared to be a dark- gray
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This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property ofthe FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not
to be distributed outside your agency.

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col ored cloud phasing into his sight. The c l oud was stationary in the sky ,
and stated it looked very strange , as if it was pixe l ated or distorted
in some other manner . As he watched the cloud, he saw a constant, diffuse
red light on the bottom front point of a so lid b l ack triangular shaped
object corning out of the c l oud towards the south, southeast. The object
behind the point became wider and l arger as it exited the c l oud until saw the entire equilateral triangular object with a red light in each of the
three corners.
estimated the triangle UAP was very l arge and coul d
have been as large as the parking l ot in wh i ch he was standin g. He estimated
the UAP was the equivalent of 3 - 5 stories in thickness. Based upon memory, at arm's l ength, each of the three lights on the triangle UAP was
the size of a fingernail .
Initially the UAP was moving south and s lightl y east at a steady speed
comparabl e to a hel icopter . believed the UAP was at an altitude of
3000-5000 feet, comparable to small civi lian aircraft in training f l ights.
It then almost instantaneously acce l erated to possibl y Mach 1 or 2 and
turned s l ightly, heading directl y south or sight l y southwest. noticed
there appeared to be waves surrou nding and radiating from the object . He
compared the waves to the mirage effect that can be observed when you look
down a hot road into the d i stance . d i d not hear the object make any
noise, could not see any form of propulsion, and d i d not smell anything out
of the ordinary. be l ieved the object was a l most directl y over his
position , possibly over the
As the object moved, it abr uptly banked 90 degrees on its l eft
side with its three lights still visible whi le veering towards the right ,
and then it quickl y banked back down to l evel flight . The banking motion
was opposite of a conventional aircraft would bank in the direction it was
turning.
lost sight of the object as it went over the
from his perspective, towards the south. looked back to
where it original l y came into view and noticed that the dark- gray c l oud had
disappeared . He called his wi fe about 60 seconds later to te ll her about
the event, and she said that his voice sounded robotic, as if there was
electronic i nterference occurri ng with the ca ll . cel l phone service
provider was -

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