UFO Files Detail Giant Hovering 'Potato'

Colorado's most unusual aerial sighting of 2022 apparently looked less like a saucer and more like a starch. Newly released US government files describe a "large jet"-sized object hovering over Cheyenne Mountain that Army personnel likened to a floating, misshapen "potato" made of shifting panels, the New York Times reports. The Fort Carson intelligence officer and four others said the object sat hundreds of feet above the mountains, subtly altered shape, and gave off a milky, shimmering glow before vanishing. An FBI sketch artist later turned one witness's account into a drawing that again resembled a giant airborne tuber.

The "potato" appears in the latest tranche of UFO documents released by the Trump administration, which has argued the public should be able to judge "what the hell is going on." The files also reference a 1950 Arkansas report of a "100-pound sack of potatoes" drifting thousands of feet up, as well as 2023 sightings of "orbs launching other orbs" near a sensitive site in the West. Pentagon analysts floated an optical-illusion theory involving sunlight on snow-lit clouds in the Colorado case, but labeled their confidence in that explanation "low." The witnesses had said there were no clouds in the sky on that clear morning in February, per KXRM.