The FBI Released an Illustration, Not a Photo of the Incident

An FBI record features an illustration connected to an incident reported near Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2022. But it includes no photograph and does not say what the illustration depicts.

The illustration is based on a first-person account included in a separate report. Someone described the incident, and the illustration was created from that description. But the record does not include the words behind the image. What remains is a picture without the story that explains what it is supposed to show.

An Image Made From Words

The FBI says the illustration is an artistic interpretation of the incident. In other words, it was created from a description, not photographed at the time. The distinction matters: a photograph records what a camera captured, while this image relies on one person’s account.

The source does not describe the illustration or say which details appeared in the original account. So the record offers no way to tell whether the image shows a light, an object, or something else. It says only that the illustration was created based on a first-person account.

The Story Behind the Illustration Is Missing

The account appears in a separate FBI record about the incident near Colorado Springs. The current record cites it as the source for the image but does not include its contents. Nor does it identify the person who described the incident or explain their connection to it.

Readers can find out where the illustration came from, but not what happened according to the person who described the incident. There is no photograph to compare with the image, and no details to clarify exactly what it depicts. The FBI released an illustration and explained what it was based on, but did not include the account itself.

What Remains Unknown

It is not known what the person saw, what the illustration depicts, or what the original report said. The record describes the incident as possibly involving an unidentified unusual phenomenon, but offers no conventional explanation.

All that remains is an image made from words that are not included here.