Case · C-090

Cheyenne Mountain: five soldiers see a motionless white object

Cheyenne Mountain, observed from Fort Carson (Colorado Springs), Colorado · United States · Feb 15, 2022

In flight Military witnesses

What happened

On February 15, 2022, five Army soldiers at Fort Carson saw above Cheyenne Mountain, about six miles away, an opalescent white “potato”-shaped object made of irregular panels, stationary and silent for a time that the accounts put between half a minute and a few minutes, then vanished suddenly. In 2024 and 2025 the FBI interviewed witnesses and produced a reconstruction drawing; the accounts differ on the time (from morning to early afternoon). Reported to AARO, the case was published in June 2026 in the third PURSUE series as unresolved.

Proposed explanation

The Department of War publishes it as an unresolved case (“Unresolved UAP Report”) and, according to CBS News, the case remains unresolved despite the analysis. An intelligence analysis published in the PURSUE files considers possible, with low confidence, backscattering of sunlight reflected from snow onto low clouds, noting that the weather reports indicated cloud cover and that no aircraft or balloon was recorded as active in the area. The witnesses described a clear sky to the FBI.

Official investigation

FBI (interviews and graphic reconstruction); an intelligence community agency (analysis); AARO/PURSUE (2026 release)

Words of the document

No anomalous data or characteristics were recorded or assessed

Official documents

1. USA/Colorado: An Airborne Object Over Cheyenne Mountain in February 2022 was Possible Backscattering of Sunlight (ICA-UAP-D001; data di redazione non indicata) · U.S. Intelligence Community (PURSUE, The Black Vault copy) · Jun 2026
2. FD-302, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022 (FBI-UAP-D001) · FBI (PURSUE, The Black Vault copy) · Apr 2025
3. FD-1057, Forensic sketch interview, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022 (FBI-UAP-D002) · FBI (PURSUE, The Black Vault copy) · Jul 2024

Sources

1. CBS News, “Pentagon releases 3rd batch of UFO files, detailing mysterious orb sightings”, June 12, 2026 (press)
2. UAP Browser – UFO Files Release 3 (release entry) (unofficial aggregator; AI-generated summaries) (other)

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