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Colorado base triangle-video lead: Department of War says it is investigating withheld clips

A new source lead says officials are looking into claims that two 2023 cellphone videos of a large triangular object over a Colorado military area remain unreleased.

The short version

A fresh News18 result and an accessible New York Post follow-up point back to a records-release dispute: the Department of War says it is investigating claims that two cellphone videos of a roughly 100-foot triangular object near a Colorado military base are being held by the Air Force.

The alleged videos are described as being recorded on successive nights by a service member in 2023.
Acting Pentagon Press Secretary Joel Valdez told the Post the department is “actively investigating” and would release what it finds through the PURSUE portal.
The public evidence available in this source trail is still indirect: a reported agency statement, file-number claims, and a government/FBI-style rendering connected to a Colorado Springs triangle report, not the withheld clips themselves.

What the records say

The Post report says the two clips are alleged to show a 100-foot triangular object near a Colorado military base, moving over mountains and using cloud cover. The story names Air Force Office of Special Investigations file numbers IRR1669S015524 and IRR1669S005024 as the locations where sources say the videos are stored. It also connects the claim to the administration’s PURSUE releases at war.gov/ufo and to a broader Colorado Springs triangle file already summarized in earlier public coverage.

News18’s fresh result repeats the core claim and frames the update as the Pentagon now trying to find the clips. Because the News18 page blocked direct retrieval during this run, The UAP Trail is treating its search snippet and title as a freshness signal while relying on the accessible Post article for concrete wording.

Media and records limits

No primary video was publicly available to embed at publication time. The illustration above is an original source-lead graphic, not evidence from the alleged cellphone videos. The available public record does not yet let readers assess object size, speed, camera metadata, distance, lens behavior, aircraft traffic, balloons, drones, or weather. The strongest current fact is procedural: the Department of War says it is looking for the material and will release findings if recovered.

Why this one is worth tracking

This lead is useful because it creates a testable follow-up path. If PURSUE or another official channel posts the videos or related case files, the claim can move from anonymous-source reporting toward a reviewable record. It also overlaps with the already-mapped Colorado Springs triangle-file cluster, making it a records-continuity item rather than a standalone viral clip.

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