ICA-UAP-D001, Analysis: Colorado Springs UAP Incident, 2022
Intelligence Community Agency · 2022 · Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. · Document
ICA-UAP-D001, Analysis: Colorado Springs UAP Incident, 2022 is indexed as a Intelligence Community Agency record with incident date 2022 and location Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.. 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.
Notable / anomalous element
- Description: 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. (release metadata, no page)
Details
- Description: 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. (release metadata, no page)
- U.S. military service members reported the incident to AARO in 2023. (release metadata, no page)
- 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. (release metadata, no page)
- This low-confidence assessment contributes to AARO s consideration of the incident, which remains unresolved as of June 2026. (release metadata, no page)
Tags: IC Partner, 2022, U.S., AARO, Colorado Springs, Potato-shaped object, Anomalous object