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Colorado Officer Follows Unidentified Colored Lights
He described them as silent. The video leaves their source unidentified.
Released to the public September 18, 20262 min readALIENS editorial
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He described them as silent. The video leaves their source unidentified.
A Colorado officer filmed silent, colored lights and kept tracking them as he zoomed in and out. The video doesn’t reveal what produced the lights.
A U.S. office that investigates reports of anomalous phenomena.
No. The video does not identify the light source.
The phone adjusts and sharpens the image, and those changes can affect how a distant object looks.
A local police officer in Colorado filmed a light source in October 2023, turning his phone to keep it in frame.
In his report, the officer described flashing red, blue, and green lights with no sound. The video runs about a minute and 20 seconds, but it doesn’t clearly show what the light source was. As the camera tries to follow the lights, it repeatedly changes the image’s magnification.
In the first part of the video, the camera swings from side to side, tracking the light source. It generally remains near the center of the frame, even as the camera continues to move.
Later, the officer zooms in and out several times. He keeps aiming the camera at the light. The video captures the source throughout, but offers no clearer view of what lies around it.
The report was submitted to a U.S. office that investigates anomalous phenomena. The office reviewed the video and blurred its lower portion to conceal private or protected information. Beyond that, the available material provides no details about the location in Colorado or what was around the lights.
The video was shot with the rear-facing camera of an ordinary mobile phone. Phones like these automatically sharpen images and make other adjustments.
When the camera zooms in, those adjustments can affect how a distant object looks and how its movement appears. So movement or shapes visible in the video don’t necessarily provide an accurate record of what happened in front of the officer. The camera keeps tracking the light, but each zoom changes the image it captures.
The source of the light is unknown, and the video doesn’t clearly identify it. The office that reviewed the footage cautioned that a phone’s focus and image processing can alter the appearance and apparent movement of a distant object, especially when the image is magnified.
The lights stay in front of the camera throughout the video. But what, exactly, is visible beyond those colored points?