IncidentLas Vegas Backyard Encounter (30 April 2023)
aka Las Vegas alien backyard · North Las Vegas encounter 2023
Two brothers in a North Las Vegas backyard called 911 reporting two "eight-foot creatures with large eyes" beside a downed luminous object; the LVMPD body-cam footage and the 911 call audio were both released and remain on file in the police record.
What's documented
At approximately 23:50 local time on 30 April 2023, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department received multiple 911 calls reporting a bright object descending in the area of North 30th Street and Las Vegas Boulevard North. LVMPD dispatch logs and the FAA’s air-traffic recordings for Harry Reid International Airport both note witness reports of a luminous object in the sky over North Las Vegas at the relevant minute; a separate LVMPD body-cam recording, released under a public-records request to local NBC affiliate KLAS-TV (Channel 8) on 1 June 2023, captures responding officer Bobby Long’s audible reaction — “What the [expletive] is that?” — looking up at the sky while another officer states “I see it too.”
The associated 911 call came from a teenage caller identifying himself as Angel Kenmore (16) at his family’s residence. The caller reported that his brother had seen “two beings” in their backyard near a downed object; that one was approximately eight feet tall with “big eyes”; that the family was frightened. The call audio was subsequently released by LVMPD. Responding officers searched the backyard at the address and found no creatures and no object, but both officers and other witnesses reported the contemporaneous aerial light over the area.
What is documented and what is interpreted should be kept separate. The documented record consists of: (a) multiple independent witness reports of a luminous descending object, recorded on dispatch and body-cam audio; (b) the 911 call from the Kenmore residence reporting two unidentified beings in the backyard; (c) the responding officers’ on-scene reaction to the sky-light. Nothing in the documented record establishes the presence of “creatures”; the interpretation belongs to the callers, and the family declined to make further public statements through 2024.
The case is unusual not for what it proves but for the cross-channel documentation of an ordinary urban 911 call about a UAP-related claim in which the responding agency’s footage corroborates at least the aerial component. The LVMPD did not open an extraterrestrial-encounter case file; the incident was logged and closed.
Notable & intriguing
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The 30 April 2023 911 call from the Kenmore family residence in North Las Vegas was released by LVMPD under a public-records request and contains the audible statement "There's like an eight-foot person beside it… they look like aliens to us… big eyes." The caller identifies himself as a 16-year-old.
LVMPD 911 call audio, released to KLAS-TV (Las Vegas), June 2023; LVMPD event log #LLV230400216356
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LVMPD officer body-cam footage from responding officer Bobby Long captures Long looking up at the sky and reacting audibly to a bright descending object at the time of the call. The footage was released under public-records request.
LVMPD body-cam footage, badge #15723, released June 2023 to KLAS-TV
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Independent of the 911 call, multiple unrelated witnesses across the Las Vegas valley filed reports the same night describing a green, luminous object descending in the northeast — a fact that the local NBC station Channel 8 documented with on-record interviews from at least four unaffiliated witnesses.
KLAS-TV (Channel 8), Las Vegas, original reporting by George Knapp, 8 June 2023