Summary
IBTimes UK covers the colorado-springs-2022-uap incident surfaced in pursue Release 03, in which five U.S. Army soldiers observed a “potato”-shaped, opalescent, fish-scale-textured UAP hovering motionless over Cheyenne Mountain near Fort Carson for approximately two minutes before it vanished (“cloaked”) without leaving a shadow. An intelligence partner’s heavily redacted assessment concluded with “low confidence” that the sighting was caused by sunlight backscattering off snow — a theory the witnesses rejected given the bright, cloudless conditions. The piece also covers a jon-kosloski-signed aaro report on an October 2023 federal-agent orange-orb sighting, a northeast U.S. red-sphere case posted by the White House, a 2008 Harare airport disc, and the 1952–53 CIA Robertson Panel. The article quotes pete-hegseth’s “unprecedented transparency” framing while noting the cases remain officially unresolved. The IBTimes article is the fourth outlet to cover the Release 03 potato case, alongside src-cbs-pursue-release-03-2026-06, src-newsweek-pursue-release-03-2026-06, and src-loeb-pursue-release-03-2026-06.
Key Claims
- Five Army soldiers at Fort Carson observed a “potato”-shaped, “creamy, whitish, opalescent” UAP with “articulating fish scales or panels” hovering over Cheyenne Mountain in February 2022; the object vanished (“cloaked”) within roughly two minutes.
- An intelligence partner concluded with “low confidence” that the most plausible explanation was “backscattering of sunlight” off snow — rejected by witnesses who describe a “bright, cloudless morning.”
- No phones were present, so no photographs were taken; no corroborating radar data, sensor readings, or independent footage emerged.
- pursue Release 03 includes 72 declassified UAP case files under Trump’s transparency initiative.
- A June 2026 aaro report (signed by jon-kosloski) describes six federal law enforcement officers reporting orange orbs that launched smaller red orbs in October 2023; military flares and experimental technology were “plausible” but unconfirmed.
- A red sphere sighting in the northeastern U.S. was posted to White House social media labeled “NORTHEASTERN ORB SIGHTING, 2025.”
- A 2008 CIA document (first public release) describes a disc with a hollow center and rotating lights emitting “beams” over Harare International Airport, Zimbabwe.
Notable Quotes
The object appeared as a “potato” shape with “sharp, defined edges” and a “creamy, whitish, opalescent colour” with a surface resembling “articulating fish scales or panels that were non-symmetrical, non-overlapping and irregular shaped.” — FBI documentation summary
The intelligence assessment concluded with “low confidence” that the explanation involved “backscattering of sunlight.” — article summary of redacted assessment
“Unprecedented transparency” — pete-hegseth