Summary
Late on 30 April 2023, a bright object streaked across the sky above Las Vegas and was captured on police body-camera footage. Roughly forty minutes later, a local family called 911 claiming that something had fallen into their backyard and that two very large, non-human-looking figures were present near construction equipment. The witnesses described the beings as approximately eight to ten feet tall, thin, with large eyes and unusual facial features. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers responded and searched the property but found no creature or definitive physical evidence. The aerial event was consistent with a widely observed meteor or bolide, while the reported backyard encounter remains unresolved.
Additional Notes
At approximately 11:49 p.m. on 30 April 2023, a bright object crossed the Las Vegas night sky. The event was captured by several cameras, including the body camera of a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer. Similar fireball reports were logged across several western U.S. states at roughly the same time. Around forty minutes later, a teenage member of a Las Vegas family called 911. During the call, he reported that something had fallen from the sky and that two large figures were standing in the backyard. He described them as roughly eight to ten feet tall, with large eyes, a large mouth and a distinctly non-human appearance. His voice and the responding family members appeared highly distressed during the call. When police arrived, officers spoke with the family and searched the property. Their body cameras recorded the interviews and the general scene, but no entity was captured clearly on police video and no definitive physical trace was documented. One officer referenced the unusual object seen in the sky shortly before the call. The family also pointed out a circular impression in the gravel and later described a shimmering or heat-wave-like distortion that they believed might have been connected with an object in the yard. These claims were never independently confirmed, and MUFON itself noted that the circular mark could have had an ordinary explanation related to equipment already present on the property. MUFON reviewed material associated with the case and described it as intriguing but problematic. The organization noted that the sky event closely matched a meteor or bolide and that the available backyard video was not pristine enough for firm analysis. MUFON attempted to obtain an original raw copy of the footage for further examination. Some later online clips purporting to show a creature in the backyard were demonstrably fabricated. One widely circulated video was traced to a CGI creator using Blender and was unrelated to the original family footage. This has complicated public discussion of the case because genuine police recordings and later fabricated material have often been mixed together online. The most securely documented part of the incident is therefore the sequence itself: a real bright aerial event, a frightened 911 call shortly afterward, police response, and two witnesses claiming to have seen very large humanoid figures. What, if anything, was physically present in the backyard was never established.
The Location Today
The reported Las Vegas incident is associated with a private residential backyard. The location is not a public attraction, and residents’ privacy should be protected.
- Environment
- Urban Area, Residential Area
- Time of Day
- Night
- Evidence Level
- Investigated Case
- Visiting the Location
- No Public Access
- Ownership of the Location
- Private