📅 Overview
In October 2023 and January 2024, local law enforcement officers in Colorado filmed lights in the night sky on their phones and reported them to AARO, the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. Four videos and four transcripts came out in PURSUE release 6 on September 18, 2026 — the first time PURSUE has included reports from local police.
The officers described the phenomenon as silent, with red, blue and green flashing lights.
📷 U.S. Department of War / DVIDS (public domain) · PURSUE release 6 (2026-09-18)
🎥 The Four Videos
| Video | Recorded | Length | What it shows |
|---|---|---|---|
| PR001 | October 2023 | 1 min 19 s | Keeps the light centered while zooming in and out several times |
| PR002 | October 2023 | 15 min | A single light source for the entire runtime |
| PR003 | October 2023 | 27 s | Zooms in and keeps the light within the top third of the frame |
| PR004 | January 2024 | 1 min 42 s | Approaching vehicles twice disturb the autofocus |
🛂 What AARO Added
- Each video carries a note that phone autofocus and image processing can distort the apparent shape and motion of distant subjects, especially at high magnification.
- To protect privacy and law-enforcement information, the bottom half of the frame is blurred, the original audio was removed, and the transcripts are partly redacted.
- The transcripts' descriptions and estimates are the reporter's subjective interpretation at the time, not confirmed object features.
- All four were released as unresolved, with no official conclusion.
📂 Transcripts
- LLE-UAP-D001 — PR001 transcript
- LLE-UAP-D002 — PR002 transcript
- LLE-UAP-D003 — PR003 transcript
- LLE-UAP-D004 — PR004 transcript (January 2024)
🤔 Why It Matters
Until now PURSUE material came from federal agencies such as the Department of War, FBI, NASA and CIA. This release shows that cases reported directly to AARO by local police are also being made public.
