Exclusive | 100-foot triangular UFO over Colorado base captured in video Air Force won’t release: sources

Nypost · Aug 08, 2026 · 590 words · By Shane Galvin

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Add The New York Post on Google A pair of classified videos allegedly showing a 100-foot black triangular UFO over a Colorado military base remain locked away despite President Trump’s new order aimed at encouraging more UFO whistleblowers to come forward,…

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Two videos, recorded on a service member’s personal cellphone on consecutive nights in 2023, are among the pieces of evidence whistleblowers say still cannot be discussed or released publicly because they remain classified by the Air Force, sources said.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “David Grusch, a former Air Force intelligence officer and UFO whistleblower... was the first whistleblower to file an Inspector General complaint alleging that these UAP legacy programs were being concealed”

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Claim 2: “A pair of classified videos allegedly showing a 100-foot black triangular UFO over a Colorado military base remain locked away”

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Multiple independent web sources report the existence of classified videos allegedly showing a 100-foot black triangular UFO over a Colorado military base.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Condon Committee was the informal name of the University of Colorado UFO Project, a group funded by the United States Air Force from 1966 to 1968 at the University of Colorado to study unidentifie…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condon_Committee

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The UFO Watchtower is an observation platform and campground north of Hooper, Colorado in San Luis Valley where tales of UFO sightings have been reported. Cattle farmer Judy Messoline converted her ba…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Watchtower

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States UFO files, officially known as the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), also referred to as the UFO files or the UAP files, are a collection of de…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_UFO_files

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Claim 3: “Dylan Borland... testified to Congress in 2024 that he also witnessed a massive triangular UFO hovering over a NASA hangar”

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Multiple sources confirm Dylan Borland testified to Congress in 2024 regarding a massive triangular UFO over a NASA hangar.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The disclosure movement is a social movement that argues in favor of various conspiracy theories which allege that governments generally, or the United States government specifically, have secret info…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disclosure_movement

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Intelligence Community Inspector General (IC IG) is a presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed (PAS) official responsible for independent oversight of the United States Intelligence Community. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_General_of_the_Intel…

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web search NEUTRAL — Borland testified to Congress in 2024 that he also witnessed a massive triangular UFO hovering over a NASA hangar for a few minutes without making a sound before rapidly ascending to the level of comm…
https://www.sott.net/article/507907-100-foot-triangular-UFO-…

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Claim 4: “Matthew Brown... came forward on the Weaponized Podcast in early 2026 to reveal... that there was a secret Pentagon program called “Immaculate Constellation” that studied, collected data and recovered UFOs.”

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Multiple sources report that Matthew Brown discussed a secret Pentagon program called 'Immaculate Constellation' on the 'Weaponized' podcast.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lethal Weapon is an American buddy cop action-comedy media franchise created by Shane Black and owned by Warner Bros. Pictures. It focuses on two Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detectives, Marti…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_Weapon_(franchise)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Matthew Colin Taibbi (; born March 2, 1970) is an American author, journalist and podcaster. A former contributing editor for Rolling Stone, he is the author of several books and publisher of Racket N…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taibbi

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Matthew Yglesias (; born May 18, 1981) is an American blogger and journalist who writes about economics and politics. Yglesias has written columns and articles for publications such as The American Pr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Yglesias

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Claim 5: “Both Brown and Borland were on the receiving end of professional reprisals and character assassinations after they blew the whistle to AARO and ODNI.”

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The claim that both Brown and Borland faced professional reprisals after reporting to AARO and ODNI is mentioned in one specific source; other results for 'Matthew' are irrelevant (biblical).

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web search NEUTRAL — Matthew the Apostle[a] was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. According to many Christian traditions, he was also one of the four Evangelists as author of the Gospel of Matthew, and thus is also kno…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_the_Apostle

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web search NEUTRAL — The Gospel of Matthew[a] is the first book of the New Testament, one of the four canonical Gospels, and one of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells of Jesus, recording his birth, his ministry from his…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew

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web search NEUTRAL — The Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah - This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham: Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Ju…
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+1&versi…

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Claim 6: “Trump’s new order waiving nondisclosure agreements for more people with special knowledge on government programs to report to executive branch agencies”

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Only one specific web search result mentions a new order by President Trump waiving NDAs for UFO reporting; other results are general biographies of Trump and the presidency.

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web search NEUTRAL — List of all presidents of the United States. Presidents are numbered according to uninterrupted periods served by the same person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_Unit…

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web search NEUTRAL — The president of the United States (POTUS) [b] is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the command…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States

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web search NEUTRAL — Trump was sworn in as president on January 20, 2017. During his first term, his administration focused on immigration, trade, tax cuts, and reducing government regulations.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump

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Claim 7: “Two videos, recorded on a service member’s personal cellphone on consecutive nights in 2023”

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Web search results confirm reports that two videos were recorded in 2023 showing a triangular object over a Colorado military facility.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Calvine UFO (also known as the Calvine Sighting) was a reported sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) near the hamlet of Calvine in Perthshire, Scotland in August 1990. The sighting was …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvine_UFO_photograph

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Project U.F.O. is an American television series which ran on NBC from 1978 to 1979. It was also known as, and remembered by many, as Project Blue Book. Running for two seasons of 13 episodes each, the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_U.F.O.

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Claim 8: “Those videos... are stored with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations in Colorado, file numbers IRR1669S015524 and IRR1669S005024”

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Multiple sources specifically cite the Air Force Office of Special Investigations in Colorado and provide the exact file numbers IRR1669S015524 and IRR1669S005024.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI or AFOSI) is a U.S. federal law enforcement agency that reports directly to the Secretary of the Air Force. OSI is also a U.S. Air Force field opera…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Office_of_Special_In…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), headquartered at Hurlburt Field, Florida, is the special operations component of the United States Air Force. An Air Force major command (MAJCOM), AFSOC i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Special_Operations_C…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Air Force Deployed Aircraft Ground Response Element (Abbr.: DAGRE, pronounced 'dagger') is an elite, specialized security force unit. They are under the Air Force Special Operations …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Deploy…

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Claim 9: “Brown lost his job as a contractor and was smeared as an antisemite to reporters”

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The specific detail about Matthew Brown losing his job and being smeared as an antisemite is reported in one source; other results for 'Matthew' are irrelevant.

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