Five Soldiers Spotted a White Object Over a Mountain

Five soldiers got out of a vehicle and walked toward a building near Fort Carson, Colorado. Above Cheyenne Mountain, they spotted a white object that appeared to hover in a low dip between sections of the mountain.

The object did not move or make a sound. All five watched it for several minutes, but it disappeared just as they all looked away for a moment. They ran to get a phone to photograph it, but when they returned, it was gone.

Bean-Shaped Object

The sighting took place on a workday in early February 2022. One of the soldiers told the FBI about it in an interview several years later.

The soldier described a horizontal object, white or nearly white, with a rounded indentation on its underside. It reminded him of a bean. Intersecting lines on its surface formed a pattern of shapes.

The soldiers pointed it out to one another. For three to five minutes, they watched as it stayed in the same position relative to the dip in the mountain. They heard no sound from it. The soldiers did not think it was being carried by the wind because its position relative to the mountain never changed.

They Turned Toward the Vehicle

None of the five had a phone. They all looked away together for a moment so one of them could return to the vehicle and get a device to take a picture.

When they looked back, the object had disappeared. They scanned the sky to the west but could not find it. Later, they met to discuss what they had seen. They considered whether it might have been a balloon or a hot-air balloon, and each drew the object separately from memory.

What Remains Unknown

It is still unknown what the object was or how it disappeared. The soldiers could not identify it, and the possibilities they considered did not solve the mystery. According to the FBI summary, a military agency later contacted the soldier to continue investigating the incident; the soldier said he was not interviewed again.

They returned to the vehicle without a picture. Above the mountain, only the dip where they had seen the object remained.