FBI-UAP-D002, FD-1057, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022

Source file: FBI-UAP-D002_FD-1057_Unresolved-UAP-Report_ColoradoSprings_2022.pdf Originating agency: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Operational Projects Unit (OPU) Classification: Unclassified (Approved for Release 2026) Date of interview: June [redacted] 2024 (document dated July [redacted] 2024) Date of incident: February [redacted] 2022 (approximately 11:25 AM) Page count: 2 (all read) PURSUE Release: 3

Summary

This FBI FD-1057 records a forensic sketch interview conducted in June 2024 at 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10278. The interviewee — [redacted], described in the document as "a former U.S. Army intelligence officer" — was one of five witnesses to the February 2022 UAP sighting over the Cheyenne Mountains near Fort Carson, Colorado. The interview was conducted by a Special Agent and an Operational Projects Unit (OPU) forensic artist, with the goal of producing a forensic artistic recreation of the UAP and its behavior. An initial sketch draft was attached to the communication. The resulting digital image, FBI-UAP-D003, was produced from this process.

Research Article

The forensic sketch process

The FBI's Operational Projects Unit (OPU) maintains forensic artists who specialize in witness-assisted visual reconstruction, most commonly applied to criminal investigations. Their use here — to reconstruct a UAP — is itself notable. The interview was conducted at the FBI's New York field office, 26 Federal Plaza, in June 2024, approximately two and a half years after the incident. The interviewee's background (dates of birth, home address, work address, email, and telephone number) is fully redacted.

The document identifies the interviewee as "a former U.S. Army intelligence officer," which adds a layer of trained observational credibility to the account.

The object description

The FD-1057 records the following description of the UAP, provided by the witness:

• The sighting occurred on February [redacted] 2022, at approximately 11:25 AM.
• Conditions: described as the perfect "blue bird" sky — no clouds, little humidity, approximately 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Shape: "potato" shaped with distinct edges.
• Color and surface: appeared "painted in a creamy/whitish opalescent color." It was "somewhat translucent with a slight shimmer."
• Surface texture: "made up of what can best be described as articulating fish scales or panels that were non-symmetrical, non-overlapping, and irregular shaped."
• Motion of surface: "The object itself was perfectly still but each panel on the object shifted in slow waves starting at different points of origin but at the same time."
• Duration: approximately two minutes.
• Disappearance: the witness "specifically stated that the object 'cloaked' in the space of time it took to turn a head and there was no shadow."

Relationship to D001 and D003

The D001 FD-302 describes the same object from a different witness perspective, using the term "bean-shaped" and noting the "intersecting lines or ridges which formed an abstract polygon pattern." These two descriptions are consistent — a horizontal, whitish, oval-ish object with a textured, segmented surface pattern. The FD-1057's "articulating fish scales or panels" corresponds to D001's "abstract polygon pattern." Both witnesses describe a completely silent, perfectly still object that vanished abruptly.

The forensic sketch and the subsequent digital rendering (D003) were produced to visually convey what the witnesses reported. D003 shows the object composite against a photographic backdrop of Cheyenne Mountain — a landscape consistent with the Fort Carson area near Colorado Springs.

Significance

The involvement of the FBI's Operational Projects Unit forensic artist in reconstructing a UAP sighting is an unprecedented step in U.S. government UAP documentation practice. The "cloaking" description — instantaneous disappearance with no shadow — and the articulating panel behavior have no obvious prosaic explanation. The interviewee's status as a former Army intelligence officer suggests practiced observation skills.

Notable Quotes

"The object was 'potato' shaped with distinct edges and appeared to look painted in a creamy/whitish opalescent color. It was somewhat translucent with a slight shimmer." — page 2

"The object was made up of what can best be described as articulating fish scales or panels that were non-symmetrical, non-overlapping, and irregular shaped. The object itself was perfectly still but each panel on the object shifted in slow waves starting at different points of origin but at the same time." — page 2

"[The witness] specifically stated that the object 'cloaked' in the space of time it took to turn a head and there was no shadow." — page 2