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DUFO-072 · DOSSIER · 2026 EDITION
FILE DUFO-072·FIELD REPORT·USA·INCIDENT Apr 30, 2023·REVIEWED 2026-10-28
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LAS VEGAS BACKYARD ENCOUNTER CLAIM.

Las Vegas, Nevada · USA · A family’s frightening account, a 911 call and a luminous sky event made this a major modern encounter claim.
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Las Vegas Backyard Encounter Claim — illustrative case artwork
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Reported witness group — Angel Kenmore

AI-generated imagined interpretation of the reported account. The yard and silhouettes are fictional; this is not source footage, an enhancement or a confirmed depiction of beings.

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“RESEARCH STATUS — Reviewed October 28, 2026.”

This record distinguishes reported experience, documented response and editorial assessment.

The Las Vegas story concerns the night of April 30 into May 1, 2023, rather than its much later burst of publicity. A family reported an alarming experience in its yard and called police. A luminous streak was separately recorded in the sky. Those two strands make the case worth examining together, while leaving the causal connection open.

Contemporaneous ABC7 reporting describes the released 911 audio and responding officers’ body-camera material. The caller reported very tall figures with large eyes. Officers investigated but did not locate creatures. The same June 2023 report says officials described the preliminary investigation as finding nothing and the event as closed as unfounded. That is a reported investigative disposition from that period, not a current case-status certification or proof that the family deliberately fabricated its account.

The American Meteor Society maintains regional observer reports under event 2408-2023. This is a useful independent lead for the sky event: researchers can compare time, direction and location across reports. It does not establish that an object entered this family’s yard, and it does not identify any occupants. A nearby light and a frightening experience can be temporally associated without a demonstrated physical connection.

In a September 2023 direct interview with Inside Edition, Angel Kenmore and family members maintained that they had seen unusual beings. Their continued account is relevant testimony. The report also presents a skeptical interpretation involving misperception in darkness. Neither the family’s confidence nor an alternative interpretation supplies a recovered object, a biological sample or an independently authenticated image of a being.

ASSESSMENT — Unresolved witness account; emergency response documented. Alien presence and a physical link to the sky event are not established by the material reviewed.

REVIEW LIMITS — Published reporting and linked public records were reviewed. No complete police file, original-file forensic analysis or full audiovisual source review has been completed. No numerical evidence score is assigned.

MAP NOTE — Coordinates are a coarse city-level reference, not an eyewitness position or private residence. Do not use them to locate or approach witnesses.

Assessment: Unresolved witness account; emergency response documented. Alien presence and a physical link to the sky event are not established by the material reviewed.

Source documents

Read the linked DisclosureUFO analysis →

American Meteor Society — regional fireball event 2408-2023 (observer reports) ↗

ABC7, June 9, 2023 — 911 call, police response and reported disposition ↗

Inside Edition, September 12, 2023 — direct family interview and alternative interpretation ↗

KTLA 5, June 17, 2023 — original news coverage ↗

Independent editorial summary. An unidentified report does not by itself establish an extraterrestrial origin. Map locations may be approximate.

// CHRONOLOGY · KEY EVENTS
2023-04-30
Late-night regional sky event; the family’s reported experience spans April 30–May 1.
2023-05-01
Family called 911 and officers responded, according to subsequent released-material reporting.
2023-06-09
ABC7 reported released audio/body-camera material and the preliminary unfounded disposition.
2023-09-12
Inside Edition published a direct family interview.
// WITNESSES · Three named family members in later reporting
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Angel Kenmore
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LISTED IN ARCHIVE
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Bobby Kenmore
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Joshua Kenmore
ON RECORD
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// REFERENCES · LEGACY LIST
◆American Meteor Society — regional fireball event 2408-2023 (observer reports)▸ ARCHIVE
◆ABC7, June 9, 2023 — 911 call, police response and reported disposition▸ ARCHIVE
◆Inside Edition, September 12, 2023 — direct family interview and alternative interpretation▸ ARCHIVE
◆KTLA 5, June 17, 2023 — original news coverage▸ ARCHIVE
FILE DUFO-072 · LAS VEGAS BACKYARD ENCOUNTER CLAIM · DECLASSIFIED EDITION 2026PG 01 / 04
// MEDIA · WITNESS TESTIMONY · DUFO-072

KTLA 5 coverage of the Las Vegas reports

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