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FD-302, “Dark Translucent Triangle,” 2023

FBI-UAP-D026 · Release 05 (8/7)
AgencyFBI
Document typePDF
Sighting typeTriangle
LocationColorado Springs, Colorado (United States)
Incident date2023
ReleaseRelease 05 (8/7)
Evidence tierTier 2 · Documented firsthand report

What the document says

This document is an FBI FD-302, a form the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses to record interviews. This FD-302 records a January 2026 interview with a former employee of the Department of War, 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-D027.
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Document text

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Context

This is one of 104 FBI records in the declassified archive, and one of 13 cases describing a triangle, reported in the United States region. It was published in Release 05 (8/7).

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