An incident took place near Colorado Springs in October 2023, according to a former employee of the U.S. Department of War, who described what he said he had witnessed firsthand.
Nearly three years later, the FBI created a computer-generated illustration based on his account. It shows a dark, semitransparent triangle. Though it may look like an image of what happened, it was created later to illustrate the report.
What the Illustration Shows
The FBI created the illustration in 2026. The summary describes it as an artistic rendering of the reported incident, not a photograph. In other words, it is an attempt to show what the object looked like, based on the employee’s account.
The illustration features one prominent shape: a dark triangle that appears semitransparent. The quoted description gives no details about the triangle’s size or movement, or about what happened around it. The illustration gives a visual impression, but adds nothing about the incident itself.
From One Person’s Account to an FBI Document
The information about the incident came from a firsthand account by a former employee of the U.S. Department of War. He described something he said he had seen himself. The FBI used that account to create a visual rendering.
The sequence is straightforward: first came a report of an incident near Colorado Springs; later, an illustration based on it. The image shows what the FBI sought to depict, but it is not a record made at the scene or at the time of the incident.
What Remains Unknown
The summary does not explain what caused the incident or what exactly the employee saw beyond the description used to create the illustration. It provides no further context and offers no conventional explanation for what was described.
A dark triangle remains on the page, while the incident itself remains out of view.
