CASE FILE D-30
The Triangle That Came Out of a Cloud (FBI UAP Report, Colorado Springs 2023)
2026-08-10 · Declassified UAP records
In October 2023, a man at work near Colorado Springs watched a large black triangle slide out of a strange, stationary cloud on a clear night — three red lights glowing at its corners — then accelerate from helicopter-slow to supersonic in an instant.
The encounter is preserved in an FBI interview report, an FD-302, declassified through the government's UAP disclosure. A large section is blacked out, including who the witness was and where he was working that night. What survives is his account — and a co-worker witnessed it too.
According to the report, the object was enormous, which he estimated as wide as the parking lot he stood in and several stories thick, with a red light at each of its three corners and waves radiating off it like the mirage above a hot road. It first moved like a helicopter, then almost instantaneously accelerated to an estimated Mach 1 or 2. As it went, it banked ninety degrees onto its side — the opposite way a conventional aircraft banks — snapped back to level, and shot south. It made no sound and showed no visible means of propulsion. He watches military and civilian aircraft over Colorado Springs regularly, and had never seen anything like it.
Below is the declassified document, redactions intact, followed by the full narration transcript.
The Document
2025
FBI FD-302 — Triangle Emerging From a Cloud, Colorado Springs (Oct 2023)
On October ██████, 2025 ██████ was interviewed by Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) ██████, Special Agent (SA) ██████, and Task Force Officer (TFO) ██████. After being advised of the identity of the interviewing agents and the nature of the interview, ██████ provided the following information:
██████ frequently watches aircraft, military, commercial and civilian fly in the airspace above and around Colorado Springs.
On October ██████, 2023 between 8-9:30PM, ██████ was working ██████ Colorado Springs, Colorado. ██████ walked over to his co-worker named ██████ and began looking up, admiring the stars on a clear night.
As ██████ looked up, he noticed a very bright star in the sky, which initially drew his attention. ██████ was observing the star for about 5-10 seconds when he noticed movement in his left peripheral vision. ██████ looked further up and to his left and saw what appeared to be a dark-gray colored cloud phasing into his sight. The cloud was stationary in the sky, and ██████ stated it looked very strange, as if it was pixelated 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 solid black triangular shaped object coming out of the cloud towards the south, southeast. The object behind the point became wider and larger as it exited the cloud until ██████ saw the entire equilateral triangular object with a red light in each of the three corners. ██████ estimated the triangle UAP was very large and could have been as large as the parking lot in which he was standing. He estimated the UAP was the equivalent of 3-5 stories in thickness. Based upon ██████ memory, at arm's length, each of the three lights on the triangle UAP was the size of a fingernail.
Initially the UAP was moving south and slightly east at a steady speed comparable to a helicopter. ██████ believed the UAP was at an altitude of 3000-5000 feet, comparable to small civilian aircraft in training flights. It then almost instantaneously accelerated to possibly Mach 1 or 2 and turned slightly, heading directly south or slightly southwest. ██████ noticed there appeared to be waves surrounding 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 distance. ██████ did not hear the object make any noise, could not see any form of propulsion, and did not smell anything out of the ordinary. ██████ believed the object was almost directly over his position, possibly over the ██████. As the object moved, it abruptly banked 90 degrees on its left side with its three lights still visible while veering towards the right, and then it quickly banked back down to level flight. The banking motion was opposite of how 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 originally came into view and noticed that the dark-gray cloud had disappeared. He called his wife about 60 seconds later to tell her about the event, and she said that his voice sounded robotic, as if there was electronic interference occurring with the call. ██████ cell phone service provider was ██████.
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
FBI FD-302 (3 pages); interview October 2025 regarding an October 2023 sighting. Released under the PURSUE UAP disclosure — redactions preserved. · Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI-UAP-D030)
Where It Happened
Full Transcript
A black triangle with a red light at each corner slid out of a strange, stationary cloud over Colorado Springs. Then it went from helicopter-slow to Mach two in an instant, and it was gone.
October 2023. A man at work looked up on a clear night with a co-worker, watching what he thought was a bright star. Then something moved in the corner of his eye. A dark-gray cloud, oddly pixelated, like a distortion in the sky. And out of it slid the point of a triangle.
It was enormous, he said, as wide as the parking lot he was standing in, with three red lights and waves rippling off it like heat off a road. Then it banked ninety degrees, the wrong way, opposite to how any aircraft turns, snapped level, and shot south at supersonic speed. This is the FBI's report on it, and a whole section is blacked out, including who he was and even where he was working that night. What is left: he watches aircraft over Colorado Springs, military and civilian, and he had never seen anything move like this.
A triangle that came out of a cloud, banked the wrong way, and outran everything in the sky. What do you think it was? Tell me in the comments. Search Case D-30 at ufodata.org to read the file yourself, and subscribe to UFO Data.
Sources
All documents and footage are authentic, public-domain U.S. government releases. Narration is AI-generated text-to-speech.