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UFO case file · UFO-0114

Las Vegas backyard entity claim

CE3United States2023-05-01

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

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LAS VEGAS — NEVADA — 2023
LAS VEGAS — NEVADA — 2023

Case description

Late on April 30 and into May 1, 2023, a bright greenish fireball crossed the sky over the western United States. Police body-camera footage in Las Vegas recorded the flash. Soon afterward, a family called emergency services to report that something had fallen nearby and that large nonhuman figures were in their backyard. Officers responded to the property. The callers described very tall beings with large eyes near equipment or vehicles in the yard. Body-camera and later released footage document the police response and the family's alarm, but no image clearly establishes a creature. Online analysis magnified shadows and compression artifacts from the dark yard, producing many claimed faces and bodies. Those interpretations are not reliable without a clear original frame, stable geometry and independent confirmation. The fireball was a real astronomical event; whether it had any connection to the backyard claim is unknown. Police found no unambiguous physical evidence of a landing or entity. The case became prominent through social media, edited videos and repeated commentary, making source control essential. CE3 is retained because the family explicitly reported visible beings. The portrait shows only the verified contextual elements: the family, police response, dark yard and fireball. It does not invent or display an alien. It is an illustrative reconstruction.

Recorded details

Witnesses
Family claim
Craft description
Meteor/fireball seen separately on bodycam in wider media context
Entity description
Tall beings alleged in backyard; no clear public evidence
Coordinate precision
Site/area approximate
Date precision
Approximate

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