FBI digital rendering of UFO, Colorado Springs, 2022
Official file: FBI-UAP-D003, Digital Rendering, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022
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Key facts
- Official file ID
- FBI-UAP-D3 (cited as FBI-UAP-D003 in this file)
- Document type
- Document
- Agency
- FBI
- Released in
- R03 · 2026-06-12
- Incident date
- 2022
- Incident location
- Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.
- Coordinates
- 38.8339578, -104.825348
- Pages legible
- 0/1
- VIRIN
- 260508-O-D0360-1099
Official description
This image is an artistic interpretation of a 2022 incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) reported near Colorado Springs, Colorado. This image is derived from the first-hand narrative description contained in “FBI-UAP-D002, FD-1057, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022”.
✦ AI summary
FBI-UAP-D003 is a single-page "Digital Rendering" produced as part of the FBI's Colorado Springs UAP case file (companion to the FD-302 witness interview FBI-UAP-D001 and the FD-1057 forensic sketch interview record FBI-UAP-D002). This is the finished forensic sketch/digital rendering itself -- essentially an image file with no extractable OCR text layer -- depicting the object as described by the witness: a still, "potato"/"bean"-shaped object with a creamy, whitish, opalescent, slightly translucent surface made of irregular, non-overlapping, articulating panels. Because the page contains only a rendered image and no machine-readable text, no transcript content could be extracted programmatically; the visual content should be viewed directly in the official PDF.
Generated with AI from the official file — may contain errors.
▸Transcript(0 of 1 pages legible)
[PAGE 1] [Diagram: digital composite / artist rendering of a white, mottled, discoid "pill"-shaped UAP hovering in a clear blue sky above a mountain ridge (Cheyenne Mountain area, Colorado Springs, CO); a residential neighborhood, open grassland, a two-lane highway and a metal guardrail appear in the foreground. No caption or other text is present on the page.]
Generated with AI from the official file — may contain errors.
Source: U.S. Department of War / AARO — public domain · war.gov/ufo
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