FBI-UAP-D001 is a Federal Bureau of Investigation FD-302 interview record released in PURSUE Release 03 on June 12, 2026. The originating agency is the FBI, the incident occurred in February 2022 near Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the document summarizes a March 2025 interview with a U.S. military service member regarding that earlier sighting.12
Provenance and Chain of Custody
The FD-302 is the standard form used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to record witness interviews. The document carries the routine FD-302 caveat that it contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, and is the property of the Bureau, loaned to other agencies with distribution limitations.
The interview was conducted in March 2025 -- roughly three years after the underlying February 2022 incident -- via Microsoft Teams by an FBI Special Agent and a Supervisory Special Agent. The document entry date was recorded as April 2025, approximately one month after the interview took place. The record was subsequently released as part of PURSUE Release 03 on June 12, 2026, by the Department of War.13
The three-year gap between the sighting and the formal FBI interview is itself a notable feature of this record. The witness had not been interviewed in person by any government agency, including AARO, prior to this March 2025 session. AARO had made contact with the interviewee in early 2024 -- approximately two years after the sighting -- and the witness had provided a written response at that time, but no in-person or video interview with AARO had occurred before the FBI conducted this FD-302. The document notes that AARO has since conducted subsequent interviews with the interviewee to inform its ongoing analysis of the incident.3
The Incident: Date, Time, and Location
The sighting took place on a workday in early February 2022, at approximately 1:00 PM or 2:00 PM local time. The witness was at Fort Carson, Colorado, walking west toward a building after parking his vehicle. The route of travel offered a clear sight line toward Cheyenne Mountain, which became the primary geographic reference point for the object's observed position.
The day was described as clear and pleasant, with blue skies providing optimal visibility conditions. The absence of obscuring weather is relevant: it rules out cloud or atmospheric distortion as a source of ambiguity in the description of the object's appearance.
The Witnesses
Five military personnel observed the object simultaneously. The primary witness -- the interviewee -- was accompanied by four other soldiers from his unit. The group noticed the object and pointed it out to one another, establishing that the observation was jointly acknowledged in real time rather than recalled independently afterward.
The document references one additional individual, though the nature of that person's relationship to the interviewee is redacted or unclear in the available text. The five confirmed military witnesses form a corroborating group with overlapping fields of observation from the same vantage point.
Physical Description
The interviewee provided a detailed account of the object's visual characteristics, which were subsequently reinforced by independent drawings from each of the five witnesses.
Shape: The object was described as oval and bean-shaped, oriented horizontally in the sky rather than vertically. A curved indentation on the underside distinguished it from a simple ellipse.
Color and surface: The object appeared matte white or off-white with a non-metallic, non-reflective finish. Its surface was covered in intersecting lines or ridges that formed an abstract polygon pattern across the entire object. This geometric surface texture was a consistent and specific detail noted by the witness, and its presence across all five independent sketches after the fact is an important element of internal corroboration.
Size estimate: The witness estimated the object's angular size as approximately 10 percent of the saddle or notch of Cheyenne Mountain as viewed from the observation point, or roughly equivalent in apparent size to a pool cue held at arm's length. This kind of concrete reference allows at least a rough angular size estimate, though without knowing the precise distance to the object, a physical size cannot be derived from this alone.
Behavior During the Sighting
The object was observed hovering in the saddle -- the low notch -- of Cheyenne Mountain's ridge, positioned just above the ridgeline. Throughout the observation period, estimated at three to five minutes, the object remained completely motionless. The witness specifically noted that it did not appear to be drifting with prevailing winds; its position relative to the mountain saddle remained fixed for the entire duration.
No sound was detected. The witness confirmed that no audible noise emanated from the object during the period of observation, which was conducted outdoors in conditions that should have permitted the detection of aircraft engine or rotor noise at the apparent distance.
The Disappearance
The observation ended when all five witnesses briefly looked away to make a collective decision: they intended to retrieve a phone from the vehicle in order to record the object. When they turned their attention back toward the saddle where the object had been hovering, it was gone. A subsequent search of the western skyline found nothing. The abrupt absence of the object -- after three to five minutes of stationary hovering -- was not explained.
No photographic or video record of the object exists. The absence of imagery is a direct result of the group's decision-making during the sighting: the phone retrieval was being organized precisely to capture imagery when the object vanished.
Post-Sighting Actions and Independent Sketches
Immediately after the sighting, the five witnesses discussed what they had seen and considered alternative explanations, including a blimp or weather balloon. Each of the five men independently drew a sketch of the object from memory. When these sketches were compared, they displayed consistent features: all depicted a horizontal, white, bean-shaped object with abstract lines or ridges crossing its surface. The convergence of five independent drawings on the same distinctive surface pattern -- the polygon-like intersecting lines -- is the primary internal corroborating element in this record.
One member of the group was believed to have filed an official report with the Army about the incident, though the FD-302 does not specify when that report was submitted or what outcome, if any, it produced.
What The Record Supports
FBI-UAP-D001 is a law-enforcement interview record that preserves a detailed first-hand account of a February 2022 sighting by five military witnesses under clear sky conditions at Fort Carson, Colorado. It documents an unresolved report, not an identification.
The record supports the following: five service members observed an aerial object simultaneously and reached a shared acknowledgment of its presence; the object's appearance was consistent across five independent post-sighting sketches; and the object remained motionless for three to five minutes without producing detectable sound before disappearing.
The record does not establish: the identity or origin of the object; its altitude or actual physical dimensions; whether it posed any threat; or whether it was associated with any known program, foreign or domestic. No imagery, radar data, infrared recording, or other sensor data accompanies the account. The FD-302 itself notes that the incident remains under AARO analysis without resolution, and the document is formally titled an unresolved UAP report. The three-year delay between the sighting and formal FBI interview, while notable, does not bear on the substance of the witness account itself, which is internally consistent and specific.