Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, October 2023 — Local Law Enforcement Video (LLE-UAP-PR001)
A local law enforcement officer submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office consisting of 1 minute and 19 seconds of video footage from a commercially available cellular device’s rear-facing camera in October 2023. The reporting officer…
Incident Overview
In October 2023, a law enforcement officer in Colorado filmed something in the sky with a mobile phone and reported it to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). The recording was declassified and published on September 18, 2026 as part of the sixth tranche of the Department of War’s Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The released copy carries redactions.
What the government released
A local law enforcement officer submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office consisting of 1 minute and 19 seconds of video footage from a commercially available cellular device’s rear-facing camera in October 2023. The reporting officer described the phenomenon as “silent” and as featuring “red, blue, and green flashing lights.”
Video Description: AARO digitally altered this footage by blurring the bottom half to obscure information whose release could be reasonably expected to affect the privacy or other protected interest of a U.S. person or commercial entity.
00:00-00:47: The camera pans to track an apparent light source, keeping it generally centered within the frame.
00:48-01:19: The camera increases and decreases its level of magnification several times and continues to pan to track the apparent light source.
AARO Comment: Cellular devices of the type used to capture this footage employ autofocus and other automated image-processing functions that may distort the apparent morphological and kinematic characteristics of distant subjects, particularly at high magnification.
Related records
The audio was removed from this footage before release. What was said while it was filmed survives only in the redacted transcript, Transcript of an Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado.
Status of the case
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office lists this report as unresolved, which means it has reached no conclusion either way, not that it has found something anomalous. The released material is a mobile-phone recording and the officer’s own description, with no radar, infrared or second-camera data to fix the light’s distance, size or height. That description, a silent light flashing red, blue and green, is also the classic account of a bright star or planet seen low over the horizon, where turbulence in the air splits its light into colours that flicker rapidly; October to January is when the brightest star in the night sky, Sirius, rises in the evening and sits low for hours. That is a candidate to rule out, not a finding, and the released records do not give the direction or time needed to test it. AARO’s own comment points the same way from the camera side: at high zoom a phone’s autofocus and image processing can make a point of light swell, pulse and change shape on its own.