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This four-page intelligence community analysis from 2022 examines an airborne object that five U.S. Army service members at Fort Carson reported over Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, on 15 February 2022. The witnesses described a stationary, shimmering, potato-shaped object about the size of a large jet that slowly changed shape and then suddenly disappeared. The analysis concludes, with low confidence, that sunlight reflecting off snow and lighting up low clouds possibly caused the sighting. It found no anomalous data and no adversarial capability.
From the source: Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: 2022, Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.. Released with redactions. This document contains analysis by an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) Intelligence Community (IC) partner to account for a 2022 incident involving an airborne object near Colorado Springs, Colorado. U.S. military service members reported the incident to AARO in 2023. AARO’s IC partner assessed, with low confidence, that the reported phenomenon, which observers characterized as resembling an “angular, non-symmetrical potato,” was attributable to sunlight backscattering, where sunlight reflecting from mountain snow cover illuminated the underside of low-altitude clouds. This low-confidence assessment contributes to AARO’s consideration of the incident, which remains unresolved as of June 2026.
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