A former Pentagon employee told the FBI he watched a perfectly triangular, nearly see-through craft glide silently over his Colorado home in October 2023, an account now public as part of the Trump administration's fifth batch of declassified UFO files.
The witness's description, captured in an FBI interview summary known as a Form 302, reads like something out of a science-fiction screenplay. But the man who gave it was no random bystander. He had worked at the Pentagon, lived near an airport, and told agents he was "very familiar" with the way ordinary aircraft, private planes, helicopters, advanced drones, look and sound in flight. Whatever crossed the sky above his back porch that night, the New York Post reported, the movement "did not match anything he encountered before."
The account landed in public view after the Department of War published 41 records on August 8, 2026, the fifth release under President Trump's Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, known as PURSUE. The records span documents, images, and videos dating as far back as 1950, drawn from the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, State Department, and the Executive Office of the President.
The sighting itself was brief. Shortly before 11 p.m. on an October night in 2023, the former Pentagon employee and his wife were on their back porch in Colorado when the object passed overhead. The entire encounter lasted just four seconds.
But those four seconds left a detailed impression. The witness told the FBI the craft "looked like a perfect triangle... without any extra wings, fins, or any bubble for the engine housing." Its color was either dark gray or silver. It flew in a straight path at a consistent elevation, possibly as low as 300 feet above the ground.
Most striking was what the witness did not experience. The object was, in his words, "competely silent", a spelling the Post preserved from the document. He said he "did not feel any rumble, static or any other effects from the object as it passed over him." For a man living near an airport, accustomed to the roar and vibration of conventional aircraft, the silence stood out.
The craft's appearance was equally unusual. It "appeared almost see-through," the Form 302 states, with "what appeared to be a haze or distortion around it... as if you were looking through mist; and that there were ripples like you were looking at an object that is underwater." As it traveled away, the witness detected a "band of silverish blue light."
No explanation for the sighting appears in the released document. The FBI summary captures the witness's statements but does not include any agent assessment or analytical conclusion about what the object might have been.
This single Colorado account is one piece of a much larger disclosure effort. The Trump administration has now released five batches of UAP-related files, part of a rolling declassification that President Trump ordered earlier this year. The first tranche arrived in May, when the War Department posted 162 files at war.gov/ufo, an unprecedented dump that included videos of objects filmed over Greece, Iraq, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States, along with intelligence reports and FBI case files spanning nearly eight decades.
That initial release also included Apollo 17 astronaut transcripts describing strange "jagged, angular fragments" near the moon, with an accompanying photograph showing three objects in a triangular formation above the lunar surface. Separate declassified files have detailed Apollo crew encounters with unexplained lights during deep-space missions.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell framed the latest release in straightforward terms.
"Today, the Department of War is publishing the fifth release of declassified and historical Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena files as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters."
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has been more pointed. In a statement accompanying an earlier batch, he told the Washington Examiner that "the Department of War is in lockstep with President Trump to bring unprecedented transparency regarding our government's understanding of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena." A War Department statement released with the first batch went further, declaring that "no other President or administration in history has followed through on this level of UAP transparency."
The Colorado witness's description of a silent, triangular craft is not an isolated data point in the files. A separate record in the fifth batch describes a former military pilot who reported witnessing a massive, silent, equilateral triangle-shaped object over Bagram, Afghanistan, in 2002. That craft, Just The News reported, appeared to block out the stars as it passed overhead.
Two triangle-shaped, silent objects, one over a war zone, one over suburban Colorado, separated by more than two decades, both described by witnesses with military or defense backgrounds. The files offer no official explanation for either.
Other records in the broader disclosure effort describe phenomena that defy easy categorization. Six videos from the fifth batch document a 2021 incident over the Gulf of Oman in which Special Operations Forces observed roughly 25 unidentified aerial phenomena flying between 250 and 1,300 miles per hour. The objects appeared as cold orbs on infrared, flew in different formations, maneuvered aggressively, and "appeared to react to the aircraft firing its main cannon," a Pentagon report stated.
Earlier releases included three military infrared videos showing a UAP formation near Iran in 2022 and an object demonstrating "instant acceleration" over Syria in 2021. Cold War-era documents revealed 209 sightings of "green orbs," "discs," and "fireballs" near Sandia, New Mexico, between 1948 and 1950. A CIA intelligence report described a silent, bright green airborne object observed in the Soviet Union in 1973 that formed concentric circles before vanishing. Previous Pentagon file dumps have also included firsthand accounts from intelligence officers describing glowing orbs and unexplained formations.
All released cases remain officially "unresolved" due to limited or inconclusive data.
The disclosure push represents a sharp departure from decades of federal stonewalling on the subject. Previous administrations slow-walked or outright blocked the release of UAP-related materials. The Trump administration has signaled repeatedly that more releases are coming, with records sourced from across the federal bureaucracy.
Former President Barack Obama added fuel to the public conversation in a February interview when he said of UFOs and aliens: "They're real, but I haven't seen them." The remark drew wide attention, though Obama did not elaborate on what specific information informed his assessment.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has also weighed in, stating: "At NASA, our job is to bring the brightest minds and most advanced scientific instruments to bear, follow the data, and share what we learn."
The fifth batch's release continues a pace that has produced hundreds of files in a matter of months. The material ranges from grainy Cold War-era reports to high-definition military infrared footage, and now, a detailed FBI interview with a former Pentagon employee who says something silent, translucent, and perfectly triangular flew 300 feet above his Colorado home.
Previous releases have also surfaced accounts from federal agents describing silent orbs and unexplained formations, adding to a body of witness testimony that spans military pilots, intelligence professionals, and career defense officials.
For all the detail in the Colorado witness's account, the rippling translucence, the silverish-blue light, the total absence of sound, the FBI Form 302 offers no conclusion. It does not identify the object. It does not rule out conventional aircraft, experimental technology, or anything else. It records what a credible witness said he saw and leaves it there.
The same pattern holds across the broader disclosure. Hundreds of files, dozens of videos, witness statements from military pilots and defense professionals, and not a single official determination about what these objects are. The government is showing the public what it has collected. It is not telling the public what it means.
Several questions remain unanswered. The Colorado witness's full name and specific former role at the Pentagon have not been disclosed. The city where the sighting occurred has not been identified. Whether his wife was formally interviewed by the FBI, or only present during his account, is unclear from the released document. And the contents of the remaining records in the fifth batch, beyond this Form 302 and the handful of files that have drawn media attention, have not been fully cataloged in public reporting.
For decades, Americans who reported seeing unexplained objects in the sky were dismissed, mocked, or ignored by the institutions that were quietly collecting the very same reports. The Trump administration has now put those reports on the table. What the country does with them is a different question, but at least, for the first time, the public can read what the government wrote down.
