Reported incident: February 2022. FBI records: 2024–2025. Government release: 12 June 2026. UKPX source review: 6 November 2026.
Five US Army service members at Fort Carson reportedly saw a pale, stationary form against the Cheyenne Mountain skyline. Later records describe it as bean-shaped or potato-shaped, with an irregular pattern of lines or panels. The released material allows the account to be followed through an FBI interview, a separate forensic-sketch interview, an artistic reconstruction and an Intelligence Community analysis proposing an optical explanation.
Those are four related records about the same reported event, not four independent sightings. They preserve similar central features but disagree on timing, duration and the circumstances of disappearance. The proposed sunlight explanation was explicitly assigned low confidence. Reading the sources together keeps both the witnesses’ observations and the limitations of the analysis visible.
The March 2025 FBI interview
FBI-UAP-D001 is an FD-302 interview summary. It records a March 2025 interview conducted through Microsoft Teams, with the form entered and drafted in April. The interviewee recalled a workday in early February 2022, around one or two in the afternoon, when he and four others from his unit were walking west towards a building at Fort Carson. Looking towards Cheyenne Mountain, they noticed something apparently hovering near a low saddle in the mountain.
He described an oval, off-white or matte-white form with a curved indentation beneath it, giving it a bean-like outline. It appeared non-metallic and motionless, and no associated sound was heard. Lines or ridges crossing its surface formed an abstract polygon pattern. The witness compared its apparent size with part of the mountain saddle and a pool cue held at arm’s length. Neither comparison is an independently measured physical dimension.
In this account, the group watched for roughly three to five minutes. None had a phone available. They looked away while deciding that one of them should return to the vehicle for a phone, and the object was gone when they looked back. They subsequently searched the western skyline without finding it. This record therefore does not describe continuous visual observation of a disappearance.
The interviewee said the men later drew what they remembered separately before comparing their drawings, which he described as consistent. The released FD-302 reports that recollection; it does not contain five original contemporaneous witness statements or the full set of those drawings. He also recalled a response to AARO in early 2024 without an interview at that time. A modern FBI catalogue note adds that AARO subsequently contacted the interviewee for further interviews. Those statements refer to different stages of follow-up.
The forensic-sketch interview
FBI-UAP-D002 is an FD-1057 electronic communication concerning the creation of a forensic reconstruction. The form is dated in July 2024, while its details describe an interview in June. Some dates and identities are redacted. It describes a former Army intelligence officer and four other unit members observing an object over Cheyenne Mountain at approximately 11:25 am.
Here the form was described as creamy-white, opalescent, slightly translucent and potato-like, with distinct edges. Its irregular, non-overlapping panels were said to shift in slow waves even though the overall object stayed still. After about two minutes it was no longer visible. The witness interpreted this as cloaking during the time taken to turn his head. The report records that interpretation; it does not establish a cloaking mechanism.
The third FBI file, FBI-UAP-D003, is the resulting digital artistic interpretation, derived from the narrative in D002. It depicts the pale patterned form above a mountain landscape. It is not a photograph taken during the encounter or separate visual corroboration. The reconstruction is best understood as a way of communicating an interviewee’s remembered description.
The Intelligence Community analysis
ICA-UAP-D001 is a four-page released analysis by an AARO Intelligence Community partner whose identity is redacted. Much of the first two pages is withheld. The readable assessment associates the observation with 15 February 2022 and a morning time of 09:35; the following discussion models sunlight at 09:45. It describes a reported duration of 30–180 seconds and a pale, shimmering, unevenly panelled form apparently above and slightly behind the mountain skyline.
The analysis proposed that sunlight reflected from snow-covered ground could illuminate clouds, producing an apparent form that disappeared as the illumination or cloud geometry changed. It referred to historical snow and weather reporting, including a likely snow depth of six to twelve inches and indications of cloud cover despite witnesses’ recollection of a clear sky. These are the analysis document’s weather references; UKPX has not independently reproduced its meteorological reconstruction.
The authors repeatedly assigned low confidence to the hypothesis, citing uncertainty about witnesses’ fields of view, snow cover, elevation and cloud conditions. The document also states that no anomalous data or characteristics were recorded or assessed and that it did not represent an unknown adversarial capability. That is the assessment preserved in this analysis, not a reason to convert a low-confidence optical proposal into a conclusive identification.
The official catalogue explains that this analysis contributed to AARO’s consideration and that the incident remained unresolved as of June 2026. That dated status belongs to the release context. UKPX does not infer a later resolution or claim that a fresh investigation took place when this historical case page was added.
Differences that should remain visible
The reported times are materially different: the 2025 FBI interview recalls early afternoon, the forensic-sketch account gives about 11:25 am, and the analysis uses a morning time around 09:35–09:45. Their durations also vary. Redactions and the absence of a complete underlying case file prevent a confident reconciliation. UKPX identifies February 2022 as the common incident period and preserves the analysis’s more specific date as its own attribution.
Likewise, a report that the men looked away before finding the object gone differs from an account interpreted as cloaking and from the analysis’s description of disappearance while being watched. Those versions should not be fused into an uninterrupted film-like sequence. The records establish what was recalled and recorded at different stages, with shared features and unresolved differences.
The sources are valuable precisely because they show several stages of investigation: gathering an account, making an illustration, comparing the description with environmental conditions, and documenting uncertainty. There is no released photograph of the reported form in these four files, no measured performance profile, and no final identification supplied by this source set.
Original records and downloads
All four records were released in PURSUE Release 03 on 12 June 2026. UKPX read all nine PDF pages and the individual official catalogue notes on 6 November 2026. The FBI interview date, the year of the reconstruction and the release date are separate from the February 2022 event.
These text records are US federal government works, public domain in the United States; original redactions are retained. Open the official FBI-UAP-D003 catalogue entry for the separate artistic rendering. Its role is reconstruction, and UKPX has not assumed separate rights in its photographic background.
Individual provenance notes: FBI interview and subsequent contact note; forensic-sketch record; analysis and June 2026 status.
Location
The pin is an approximate Colorado Springs area reference from the US Census Bureau’s 2024 Colorado places Gazetteer. It represents the wider locality of the reported view towards Cheyenne Mountain, not an exact object position, military observation point or visitor destination. Browse UFO / UAP / USO or return to Cases.