Las Vegas Backyard Alien 911 Call and Bodycam Fireball

April 30, 2023. About 11:49 p.m. A bright fireball crossed the sky over the American Southwest. The American Meteor Society logged it as Event 2408, with reports from Nevada, California, Utah and Arizona. Seven witnesses around Las Vegas said it made no sound.

In Las Vegas, roughly 80 miles from Area 51, a police body camera caught a green streak. Later, an officer spoke on bodycam. "I'm so nervous right now. I have butterflies, bro." First a shooting star, and now "these people say there's aliens in their backyard."

About 12:30 a.m., May 1. In the northwest valley of Las Vegas, Angel Kenmore, his father Bobby and his brother Joshua were in their large backyard, working on their truck. Then Angel called 911. "We just see in the corner of our eye something fall down from the sky, and it was with lights, and when it hit down there was like a big impact, and we felt like an energy? And then we hear like a lot of footsteps near us."

There were two of them. One beside the fallen object. One inside it. "It has big eyes and it's looking at us," Angel said. "They're like eight foot, nine-foot, 10 foot … And they're not human. One hundred percent, they're not human."

Officers interviewed the three witnesses and found them sober and credible. They searched the yard and canvassed the neighbourhood. They found nothing unusual. One officer admitted: "One of my partners said they saw something fall out of the sky, too." The case was closed as "unfounded."

Still, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department put temporary cameras at the home to ease the family's fear of harassment. In June 2023 it released the bodycam footage and the 911 audio. The story spread fast.

NASA's Planetary Defense Officer, Lindley Johnson, called it "a bright meteor less than a meter in size and certainly not a UFO that fell in anyone's backyard." The meteor had been high in the atmosphere, hundreds of miles from Las Vegas. On Metabunk, analysts put the bolide about 100 miles north.

In Skeptical Inquirer, Kenny Biddle called the affair "a prank that backfired." In his reading, the story grew with each telling. On bodycam, the mother said she saw nothing. Google Earth shows a circular depression in the backyard gravel from April 2022 onward, a year before the event, and it matches vehicle tyre tracks. Even so, sources close to the investigation told 8 News Now they did not believe the call was a hoax.

Crime-scene reconstruction analyst Scott Roder took the opposite view. Working with Jim Quirk of the Extraterrestrial Reality podcast, he argued that a family video showed at least two "beings" using a "cloaking device."

In April 2024, Angel told NewsNation the creature "was moving and breathing." He said he couldn't move for about 30 seconds, closed his eyes and prayed, and now believes it was a "demon." "I made no money off this," he said. The meteor is on record, and the bodycam is public. What stood in that backyard is still argued over.