Overview
The Department of War is reportedly reviewing cellphone videos that allegedly show a 100-foot triangular object near a Colorado military installation, but officials have not authenticated the footage or confirmed what it depicts. Acting Pentagon Press Secretary Joel Valdez said the government is “actively investigating” the whereabouts of the recordings, which were said to have been made by a service member on consecutive nights in 2023. At this stage, the inquiry appears focused on locating and assessing the material itself rather than validating the more dramatic claims circulating around it.
The alleged videos have not been publicly released, and no independent analysis has been conducted. Most of the specific descriptions — including the object’s size, its apparent speed, and claims that it could blend into clouds — come from anonymous sources cited by the New York Post. That distinction is important: officials have acknowledged only that they are looking into reports of footage, not that the recordings have been confirmed or that they show any extraordinary craft.
What the Videos Are Said to Show
According to the anonymous accounts, the footage allegedly shows a black triangular object roughly 100 feet across flying near a military site in Colorado. The object is said to have moved rapidly over mountain terrain and to have appeared to conceal itself in or pass through cloud cover. The recordings were reportedly captured on a personal cellphone on two consecutive nights in 2023, which, if true, would make them different from the kinds of UAP evidence often associated with military sensors, radar, or infrared systems.
Valdez said any material recovered would be made available through the administration’s Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, or PURSUE, a disclosure mechanism launched in May as part of President Donald Trump’s effort to release previously classified UAP-related material. Even so, officials have not said whether the alleged videos can be located, whether they remain in Air Force custody, or whether they are connected to any classified program. The reported file numbers tied to the footage — IRR1669S015524 and IRR1669S005024 — have also not been independently verified.
Colorado Sightings Add Context
The report arrives against a backdrop of other triangle-shaped UAP accounts in Colorado, including a government record describing a former Pentagon employee who said he saw a silent, nearly translucent triangular craft over his home in Colorado Springs in 2023. That account was included in the broader UAP disclosure effort and, like the cellphone-video claims, remains an observation rather than proof of the object’s identity.
Researchers following UAP disclosures have noted the geographic and chronological overlap, but there is currently no public evidence linking the cases. The possibility of a connection may be of interest to investigators, yet the available record still falls short of establishing whether the reports describe the same object, a series of unrelated sightings, or something more conventional that has not yet been explained.
What Remains Unproven
For now, the central fact is that the videos remain unverified. The Department of War has not confirmed the existence of a hidden triangle craft, a concealed base, or any effort by the Air Force to suppress evidence of nonhuman technology. Much of the most striking language in the story depends on unnamed sources, and without the original footage, investigators cannot assess crucial questions about distance, motion, lighting, and scale.
If the recordings are found and released, analysts could examine camera movement, atmospheric conditions, the object’s relation to nearby terrain, and whether image perspective creates an illusion of size or speed. Until then, the case sits in the familiar space between allegation and evidence: a developing UAP inquiry, but not yet a demonstrated mystery.
