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The Translucent Triangle over Colorado Springs

Late one October night in 2023 a man and his wife on their back porch in Colorado Springs watched a near-transparent triangle pass silently over the house, rippling "like you were looking at an object that is underwater", then tip onto its side and vanish. He described it to the FBI in January 2026. This is the record of what the couple reported, not a verdict on what flew over them.

◆ THE SHORT VERSION

  • The Translucent Triangle over Colorado Springs is a reported UAP case in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, October 2023.
  • A Colorado Springs man told the FBI that a near-transparent triangle passed over his house with "ripples like you were looking at an object that is underwater".
  • He described a band of silverish blue light along its trailing edge and said its left side banked up to almost vertical without any change of path.
  • It made no sound and was gone in about four seconds; his wife, who also saw it, remembered a dark seam around its edge.
  • The record says he knew all USAF aircraft well, the latest unmanned drones included, and that this matched none of them.
  • For this case Fractured Realities holds 2 distinct sources and 2 corroborating primary documents.
  • The archive grades it L1 · SINGLE CHANNEL — it is retold more than once, but everything traces back through one channel.

Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.

The Translucent Triangle over Colorado Springs
From the case file · released government record · FBI-UAP-D027, p. 3 · FBI digital rendering of what the couple described, Colorado Springs, 2023 · released by the Department of War, 7 Aug 2026 ↗
EVENT DATE
October 2023
LOCATION
Colorado Springs, Colorado · USA
COORDS
38.83°N 104.82°W
INDEPENDENCE
L1 · SINGLE CHANNEL
SOURCES
2 distinct
CLAIMANTS
0
STATUS
Known from released government records
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
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The object came from behind them. At about 10:50 PM a man and his wife were sitting on their back porch in Colorado Springs when he noticed movement overhead. Something had flown over the house from the north-east and was moving away. It looked "almost see-through" inside a haze, and he told the FBI there were "ripples like you were looking at an object that is underwater".

He described a perfect triangle in dark grey or silver with rounded corners, point forward. Along its trailing edge ran a band of silverish blue light that he thought might be its propulsion. It flew straight and very fast at a constant height, possibly as low as 300 feet. Just before they lost it the left side banked up to almost vertical with no change of path. It made no sound. The whole sighting lasted about four seconds, too quick to reach for a phone.

He lived near an airport and knew how ordinary aircraft look and sound over the house. The record says he knew all USAF aircraft well down to the latest unmanned drones, and this matched none of them. Afterwards the couple went inside to separate rooms. His wife remembered a dark seam running around its edge.

What is on the record

An FBI FD-302, FBI-UAP-D026, records the interview in January 2026. An FBI digital rendering, FBI-UAP-D027, sets the scene in five frames as a faint banded triangle crosses the rooftops and turns edge-on. It depicts what the witnesses described and is not a photograph. Both came in the Department of War's PURSUE release of 7 August 2026. Names, address, day and most of his background are redacted. KRDO, following the release index, describes him as a former Department of War employee.

The figures do not quite agree. He sized it as a large SUV at about 300 feet, but five inches at arm's length at that height works out much larger. Neither the FBI nor AARO offers an explanation, and none was found outside the release.

Why it sits where it does

The page grades L1, one channel. Two people saw it but both reach the archive through one interview more than two years later. Both are redacted, so the record carries no identified witness and the page cannot reach the official-record tier. A tier measures sourcing, never truth. What passed over the porch is not resolved here.

◆ CORROBORATION
✓FBI-UAP-D026_FD-302_Dark-Translucent-Triangle_2023 (government primary)
✓FBI-UAP-D027_Digital-Rendering_Dark-Translucent-Triangle_2023 (government primary)
◆ SOURCES

Everything this file draws on, in the open — reports, not reality. Check us.

Documents & published sources

Government records, papers and journalism the archive links to this case.

government records · 2
DoW UAP Release 5 · 2
FBI-UAP-D026_FD-302_Dark-Translucent-Triangle_2023corroboration
FBI-UAP-D027_Digital-Rendering_Dark-Translucent-Triangle_2023corroboration
TRIANGULAR CRAFTMULTIPLE WITNESSES2023USA

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