2008 · Restricted area of an Air Force base in Colorado 'that runs America's GPS satellites' (base not named on air; Schriever AFB is our inference only)
Logan Labby's V-craft, Colorado 2008
Sourced, unconfirmedStrength E · 2/10
Evidence 0/4 · Witnesses 1/3 · Backing 1/3
One named firsthand witness; the two other guards are unnamed and have not spoken. ASA took his report and referred it; no FBI record or sensor data.
Plausibility Moderate
Score 9 · 8 factors for, 0 against
A named former Security Forces airman describes a large silent V seen through night-vision goggles over a guarded satellite-control site, with two fellow guards he does not name; he reported it 18 years later to ASA and the FBI. An aircraft with infrared lights is proposed, not demonstrated.
2008: three base security patrolmen pass night-vision goggles as a silent V-shaped craft with round lights underneath crosses the restricted area. · Illustration for uaptrail.com
WhenSpring or summer 2008, about 9-10 pm
WhereRestricted area of an Air Force base in Colorado 'that runs America's GPS satellites' (base not named on air; Schriever AFB is our inference only)
In spring or summer 2008, former Air Force Security Forces airman Logan Labby was guarding the restricted area of a Colorado base that controls GPS satellites when, through night-vision goggles, he saw a silent V-shaped craft of wings only, about football-field size, with six or seven round lights underneath that lit nothing below. His patrol leader and a third patrolman passed the goggles round and saw it too; to the naked eye the sky was empty. Fearing for their clearances, the three never reported it. In 2026 he filed with Americans for Safe Aerospace and was interviewed by the FBI. An aircraft with infrared lights is proposed, not demonstrated.
How plausible · Moderate
A named former Security Forces airman describes a large silent V seen through night-vision goggles over a guarded satellite-control site, with two fellow guards he does not name; he reported it 18 years later to ASA and the FBI. An aircraft with infrared lights is proposed, not demonstrated.
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Access He was on post and watched it himself through the goggles.
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Cost of speaking He admits failing his own duty: "a big security failure".
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No gain sought Nothing sold; a podcast appearance only.
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Restraint Claims no origin and allows a secret human programme; the Phoenix comparison is his own guess.
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Character record Named former airman; his service record is not on file.
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Checkable details check out Base, duty rosters, goggle sign-out, the two guards and the ASA and FBI intake could all be checked; nothing released.
Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-11-07.
Claims
In spring or summer 2008, about 9 or 10 pm, Labby had checked out night-vision goggles with his weapon and was inside the restricted area of an Air Force base in Colorado with his patrol leader, a staff sergeant, and a third patrolman. After about an hour he saw a V-shaped craft 'probably a football field size', 'just the wings', with no fuselage.Phoenix LightsfirsthandSourced, unconfirmedLogan Labby
The craft had six or seven large round lights underneath, 'the same color as a street light', which cast no light down. It moved slowly from south-west to north-east at about 1,000 ft with no sound. All three men passed the goggles round and saw it; without the goggles the sky looked empty.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedLogan Labby
The craft passed directly over the 'priority level one' equipment the guards were there to protect. The three agreed not to call it in because their posts required advanced clearances 'and none of us were interested in losing that'. He now calls it 'a big security failure'.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedLogan Labby
After hearing Graves on Joe Rogan's podcast he filed a report with Americans for Safe Aerospace; an ASA investigator video-interviewed him and asked whether he would speak to the FBI. The FBI interview took 'maybe 30 minute, 45 minute', and they said 'let us do our thing with this'. He says he never felt under investigation.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedLogan Labby
He says the craft looked like nothing in the Air Force fleet then or since. He thinks the 1997 Phoenix craft 'is most likely what I seen', and goes back and forth between a human origin, possibly a secret programme with cloaking technology, and somewhere else.Phoenix LightsfirsthandSourced, unconfirmedLogan Labby
Asked to compare it at arm's length, Labby chose a loaf of bread, about 25 degrees of sky. At 1,000 ft that is more than 400 ft wingtip to wingtip, nearly twice a C-5 Galaxy's span of about 223 ft.Phoenix LightsanalysisSourced, unconfirmedCristina Gomez (6 Nov 2026)
Military aircraft carry infrared lights that only night-vision goggles show, which could explain why the lights were invisible to the naked eye. It does not explain the lack of any glow on the ground or of engine noise.analysisSourced, unconfirmedCristina Gomez (6 Nov 2026)
Graves: if it was a foreign stealth aircraft, it flew over ground stations that talk to American satellites; if it was something else, its interest in that equipment is worth knowing.speculationLeadRyan Graves
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