The 100-Foot Triangle: Colorado's Video the Air Force Won't Show
Sources say a Colorado military base filmed a massive triangular craft — and the Air Force refuses to release it. Here's what's known.
A Video Nobody Outside the Pentagon Has Seen
Somewhere in a classified file, according to a New York Post exclusive published August 8, 2026, sits video footage of something enormous hovering over a Colorado military installation — a triangular craft reportedly measuring roughly 100 feet across a side. The Post’s report, attributed to unnamed sources, claims the Air Force has the footage and won’t release it. No agency has confirmed the video exists. No base has been officially named. And that, more than anything, is the story: not a monster reveal, but a reported wall of silence around something allegedly caught on camera in Colorado’s skies.
This is a different animal than the declassified case files that have been trickling out of Colorado Springs all year. Those documents — CIA and Pentagon paper records dug up through recent transparency pushes — are real, dated, and at least partially public. What the Post describes is something else entirely: alleged video evidence, still sitting behind a wall of non-disclosure, with the reported chain of custody itself becoming the controversy.
What’s Actually Confirmed vs. What Isn’t
Let’s be precise about the layers here, because they matter.
Confirmed and public: Throughout 2026, the federal government has been releasing batches of previously classified UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) material. Denver7 and the Colorado Springs Gazette both reported in early August 2026 on newly declassified files that include sightings specifically tied to Colorado Springs. The CIA’s own website featured a report — described in a May 2026 denvergazette.com piece — of a “frightening” UFO sighting that occurred in Colorado. In June 2026, CBS News covered a third batch of Pentagon-released UFO files, including accounts of mysterious orb sightings, one witness reportedly asking “Are you seeing this?” And earlier that same month, per Nonstop Local News, the government released an image of a UFO shaped, by public description, like a floating potato.
Not confirmed, sourced anonymously: The 100-foot triangle video is a different category entirely. It comes from the New York Post’s exclusive reporting, credited to unnamed sources, and as of this writing the Air Force has not confirmed the video’s existence, its contents, or its location beyond the general claim that it was filmed over a Colorado base. No official statement acknowledges the footage. No FOIA release has produced it. The claim exists in the space between “sourced reporting” and “verified record” — a space paranormal researchers know well, and one that deserves to be treated with both seriousness and caution.
That distinction is the whole ballgame. Colorado has plenty of documented UAP paper trail this year. It does not, as of this writing, have a publicly released triangle video. Those are two very different levels of evidence, and conflating them does a disservice to both the real declassification story and the unverified footage claim.
Why a Withheld Video Hits Different Than a Withheld Document
Paper records get redacted, summarized, reworded, argued over in footnotes. Video is harder to spin. If a reported 100-foot triangular object was genuinely filmed by military sensors over an active installation, the reluctance to release it — assuming the Post’s sourcing holds up — would track with a pattern that’s shaped decades of UAP disclosure fights: the government has, at various points, acknowledged that footage exists while resisting its release, citing sensor capability concerns, classification of the collecting platform, or simple bureaucratic inertia rather than any claim about what’s actually in the frame.
That’s speculation about a general pattern, not a claim about this specific case — because right now, we don’t have independent confirmation this footage exists at all. What we have is a single exclusive report naming no base, showing no frame, and citing no verifiable named official. It may be entirely accurate. It may be exaggerated in transit. It may be describing something already covered in the declassified batches under a different framing. Until the Air Force responds, releases material, or the video surfaces through a FOIA request, it sits in the same category as countless other “the government has the tape and won’t show you” claims that have circulated since the Cold War: plausible, provocative, unverifiable.
Colorado’s Long Romance With the Triangle
Whatever the truth of this particular video, it’s landing in fertile ground. Colorado has one of the richest triangle-shaped UAP traditions in the country, and it didn’t start in 2026.
The southern part of the state — the San Luis Valley — has been nicknamed the “Bermuda Triangle of the West,” a moniker explored in a May 2026 denvergazette.com feature that traces the region’s tangled folklore of UFO sightings, unexplained cattle deaths, and, as the piece puts it, its share of nefarious characters. The valley’s high-altitude isolation, ringed by the Sangre de Cristo and San Juan mountains, has made it a magnet for strange-light reports for generations, well before “UAP” became the government’s preferred vocabulary.
Colorado Springs specifically has become ground zero for this year’s disclosure wave. It’s home to NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain complex, Schriever Space Force Base, and Peterson Space Force Base — a dense cluster of military and space-tracking infrastructure that has made the region a recurring character in declassified sighting reports for decades. The newest files, covered by both Denver7 and the Gazette, add specific Colorado Springs incidents to that record, though the details released so far describe sightings rather than triangular craft specifically.
Triangle craft reports, broadly, have a long pedigree in American UFO literature — the so-called “Flying Triangle” phenomenon, with clusters of sightings reported across the country going back to the late 1980s and 1990s. Whether the New York Post’s 100-foot Colorado object belongs to that broader pattern, or is something else entirely, is impossible to say without the actual footage.
What Would Actually Move This Forward
If this story is going to move from “sources say” to something researchers can sink their teeth into, a few things need to happen: an official acknowledgment or denial from the Air Force or Space Force, a named installation, a FOIA request (or its denial, which is itself telling) working its way through the system, or corroborating sourcing beyond a single exclusive report. Colorado’s 2026 declassification wave shows the process does work eventually — documents did surface, the CIA’s site did add a Colorado case, the Pentagon did release its third UAP batch. That track record is the best argument that, triangle video or not, more information about Colorado’s skies is likely still coming.
Until then, the 100-foot triangle remains exactly what its name implies: a shape glimpsed at the edge of what we’re allowed to know, its outline suggested by anonymous sourcing, its substance still locked somewhere behind a classification stamp nobody in the public has been permitted to read.
We’ll be watching the FOIA dockets. If the video — or a denial of its existence — ever surfaces, Beyond the Rockies will be first to break down what it actually shows.