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ICA-UAP-D001, Analysis: Colorado Springs UAP Incident, 2022

UNCLASSIFIED // RECORD RELEASE 3 · 2026-06-12
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ICA-UAP-D001, Analysis: Colorado Springs UAP Incident, 2022

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.

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Slug
ica-uap-d001-analysis-colorado-springs-uap-incident-2022
Release
release_3 (2026-06-12)
Agency
Intelligence Community Agency
Type
pdf
Incident date
2022
Incident location
Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.
Content-Type
application/pdf
Size
48 KB
sha256
b98b58a326ea413b5fd332ba56e81869bf83e2606a744335882d0115f8d77158
Upstream
https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/061226/release_03/documents/ICA-UAP-D001_Analysis_Colorado-Springs-UAP-Incident.pdf