Analysis: Colorado Springs UAP Incident, 2022
🏛️ Intelligence Community Agency
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.
Key points
- 🏛️ Official U.S. government release — batch 3 (Jun 12, 2026)
- Official file: ICA-UAP-D001
- When: 2022
- Where: Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.
- Parts of this file are redacted by the government.
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The description above is the government’s own, from the official release. The official file is linked on this page.
Intelligence Community Agency. (2022). Analysis: Colorado Springs UAP Incident, 2022. https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/061226/release_03/documents/ICA-UAP-D001_Analysis_Colorado-Springs-UAP-Incident.pdfRelated records
FD-302, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022
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Digital Rendering, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022
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FD-1057, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022
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