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Colorado Springs: black triangle with red corner lights emerging from a "pixelated" cloud (October 2023)

On the record
Strength C · 5/10
Evidence 3/4 · Witnesses 2/3 · Backing 0/3

A released FBI interview records a detailed firsthand triangle sighting by an experienced aircraft watcher, but the co-worker's account is not released and nothing else backs it.

Plausibility Moderate
Score 8 · 7 factors for, 1 against

A released FBI interview with an experienced aircraft watcher; another Colorado Springs triangle was reported the same month, but the co-worker's account isn't released.

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Unresolved
FBI-UAP-D030 · page 1 of 3 · war.gov file, via the ufotransparency.com mirror
WhenOctober 2023 (day redacted), between 8 and 9:30 PM
WhereColorado Springs, Colorado (exact site redacted)

In October 2025 the FBI interviewed a man who often watches aircraft over Colorado Springs. He said that one evening in October 2023, while stargazing with a co-worker, he saw a stationary dark-gray cloud that looked "pixelated or distorted". A solid black equilateral triangle with a diffuse red light at each corner came out of it, heading south-southeast at about helicopter speed. He estimated its altitude at 3,000-5,000 ft and its thickness at 3-5 stories. He said it then accelerated "almost instantaneously to possibly Mach 1 or 2". It banked 90 degrees the "opposite" way to a normal aircraft and showed heat-shimmer-like waves around it. It made no sound. Afterwards the cloud was gone. About 60 seconds later he phoned his wife, who said his voice sounded "robotic". The FBI made a rendering (FBI-UAP-D031). This is a different event from the translucent triangle reported the same month (colorado-springs-translucent-triangle-2023). *Method note: war.gov blocks this server. The FD-302 PDF was read directly from the original via the ufotransparency.com mirror. Names, dates and some locations are redacted in the original. The rendering file was not described beyond its official description.*

How plausible · Moderate

A released FBI interview with an experienced aircraft watcher; another Colorado Springs triangle was reported the same month, but the co-worker's account isn't released.

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    No gain sought Told to the FBI.
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    Checkable details check out FD-302 released.
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    Access Watched from the ground.
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    Character record Regularly watches aircraft.
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    Independent convergence A separate Colorado Springs triangle the same month.
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    Fits the documented skeleton Part of the FBI triangle file.
Against
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    Lone source, no corroboration The co-worker's account isn't released.

Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.

On the record

  • FD-302, interview "On October [redacted], 2025" by a supervisory special agent, a special agent and a task-force member. (FBI-UAP-D030, p.1)
  • The witness "frequently watches aircraft, military, commercial and civilian fly in the airspace above and around Colorado Springs." (FBI-UAP-D030, p.1)
  • "On October [redacted], 2023 between 8-9:30PM", he walked over to a co-worker and began "admiring the stars on a clear night". He noticed a very bright star, then movement in his left peripheral vision. (FBI-UAP-D030, p.1)
  • "a dark-gray colored cloud phasing into his sight. The cloud was stationary in the sky, and [he] stated it looked very strange, as if it was pixelated or distorted". (FBI-UAP-D030, p.2)
  • "a constant, diffuse red light on the bottom front point of a solid black triangular shaped object coming out of the cloud towards the south, southeast ... the entire equilateral triangular object with a red light in each of the three corners." (FBI-UAP-D030, p.2)
  • Size "could have been as large as the parking lot in which he was standing"; "3-5 stories in thickness"; altitude "3000-5000 feet"; initial speed "comparable to a helicopter". (FBI-UAP-D030, p.2)

Claims

A large silent black triangle with three red corner lights came out of a distorted cloud, then accelerated to "possibly Mach 1 or 2".A triangle over AfghanistanfirsthandSourced, unconfirmedthe witness (redacted; anonymous), told to the FBI two years later.
The phone call sounded robotic about a minute afterwards.secondhandSourced, unconfirmedthe wife's remark, relayed by the witness.
A co-worker was present.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedthe witness. The FD-302 does not record what the co-worker saw, and the co-worker's own account is not in the release.

Where

Colorado Springs, Colorado (exact site redacted)
38.8°N 104.8°W
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