Pentagon Probes Hidden Triangle UFO Videos

The Department of War is now investigating claims that the Air Force has been sitting on two cellphone videos showing a 100-foot triangular object hovering over a Colorado military base.

Quick Take

The Department of War confirmed it is probing reports the Air Force withheld two 2023 cellphone videos of a giant triangular object over a Colorado base.
A New York Post report first revealed the videos, allegedly filmed on consecutive nights by a service member.
The probe comes days after the Pentagon released its fifth batch of declassified UFO files, including two other Colorado Springs triangle sightings.
None of the videos have been made public, and the government has not confirmed what the objects actually are.

Post Report Sparks Official Response

The New York Post reported on August 8 that two classified videos allegedly show a massive black triangle flying over mountains near a Colorado military base and camouflaging itself in clouds. Sources told the paper the footage was shot on a service member’s personal cellphone on two consecutive nights in 2023. One week later, the Department of War confirmed it was actively investigating the claim.

The department has not said whether the videos are real or where they came from. Officials described the effort as an active investigation into “the reported location” of the footage, not a confirmation that it exists or shows what witnesses claim. That distinction matters. It means the government is checking a tip, not verifying a UFO.

Trump’s Disclosure Order Raises Stakes

President Trump recently ordered federal agencies to free former employees and contractors from old nondisclosure agreements if they have information about unidentified anomalous phenomena. The goal was to get more whistleblowers talking. Sources told the Post the Colorado footage remains classified anyway, despite that push for openness.

That gap between the president’s stated goal and what the public actually gets to see is the real story here. It feeds a suspicion shared by both conservatives and liberals: that agencies pick and choose what “transparency” actually means, even when a president orders otherwise.

Files Already Released Show a Pattern of Triangles

The timing lines up with a broader disclosure effort. On August 7, the Department of War released its fifth batch of files under a program called the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, or PURSUE. Two of those files describe separate Colorado Springs sightings from October 2023, one called a “Dark Translucent Triangle” and another a “Large Triangle with Red Lights”.

Those two cases are backed by Federal Bureau of Investigation interview records and artist renderings, not videos. One witness, a former Department of War employee, told investigators he saw a silent, four-second triangular shape from his back porch. A second witness described a black triangle with red lights emerging from a pixelated gray cloud. Neither file includes the cellphone footage the Post described.

Why Triangle Sightings Keep Recurring

Triangle-shaped objects are among the most commonly reported UAP forms in decades of military and civilian sightings, alongside spheres and orbs. A similar triangle case from Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan in 2002 surfaced in the same government release, showing the pattern goes back years. That history doesn’t prove the Colorado footage is real, but it shows the shape isn’t a new or isolated claim.

What’s different this time is the specific, sourced claim that actual video exists and is being kept from the public even as the government publishes other UAP files. A director who covers UAP disclosure for a living called this release part of a bigger shift in how seriously the topic is being treated at the federal level.

The Department of War is investigating the claim that the Air Force is holding back two cellphone videos supposedly showing a 100-foot triangle UFO over a Colorado military base.

— Fort Bastion: Defending Liberty & Truth (@FortBastion) August 16, 2026

What Remains Unverified

No outside party has viewed or confirmed the two cellphone videos exist as described. The claim rests on sources speaking to a single newspaper, and the Department of War’s statement only confirms it is looking into the allegation, not that the footage is authentic. That single caveat matters, but it does not erase the fact that a formal government investigation is now underway. For a public already skeptical of official transparency, that alone is worth watching closely.