A week after a strange 911 call was reported to mainstream media, sources close to the investigation say they don’t believe the Las Vegas family who reported seeing aliens in their backyard was lying.
However, many mysteries still surround the incident, which has sparked interest and controversy among UFO believers and skeptics alike.
Even the skeptical former police officer who broke the story of the mysterious object that fell from the sky over Las Vegas just after midnight on May 1 and was the first to interview the family who claimed to have seen tall alien creatures with big eyes isn’t completely sure it’s a hoax.
Police investigate UFO incident
What puzzles Doug Poppa is why the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s (LVMPD) Homeland Security department installed security cameras outside the home after the incident.
The former police officer, who usually focuses on corruption issues within the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, first revealed on May 18 how police had received a tip about aliens on May 1. He then interviewed the family in person twice, telling the New York Post that while he doesn’t actually believe in UFOs, he felt the family was telling the truth.
But it was during a second visit to the home that he noticed the security cameras, which the family told him police had installed, supposedly to protect them from curious onlookers who might enter their property to bother them.
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“The mother told me that they went out and put up the cameras, supposedly to protect the family from people coming to bother them about the UFO,”
Poppa told The Post .
“But I can tell you right now. Cops don’t go out and set up expensive video equipment like that, and they certainly wouldn’t do it for someone who calls in a UFO report.”
The mysterious incident
As published in Key to Hidden Mysteries , LVMPD body camera footage showed a UFO flying in the night sky before the family called reporting something “100% not human” on their property.
The video was posted on June 7 by local channel Vegas Blue Media and went viral on social media and traditional media.
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A Las Vegas police officer’s dashcam caught the mysterious object at approximately 11:50 p.m. on April 30, and according to the American Meteor Society , the bright light was seen as far away as Utah and California. Approximately 39 minutes later, a member of the Gomez family made a terrifying 911 call, saying there were two unknown entities in their backyard after he and his family saw an object fall from the sky.
“We saw something fall from the sky out of the corner of our eye, and it was with lights, and when it hit there was a big impact, and we felt it like an energy, then we heard a lot of footsteps near us,”
explained the person who called 911.
“And then we have a big crew and we see that there’s a person that’s eight feet on one side and another one inside, and they’ve got big eyes and they’re looking at us. They’re really big. They’re like eight, nine, or ten feet. And they’re not human. One hundred percent, they’re not human.”
Said Ángel Gómez, 16, who was in the backyard of his house with his brother “fixing a truck”
When they claimed to have seen a blurry object fall from the sky and two tall creatures emerge, they posted their own explanation of what happened on YouTube last week, showing footage of an object streaking across the sky, as well as another video with the sound of something crashing.
His account also included what he said was his family reacting, while speaking Spanish, to what they allegedly saw fall in their backyard.
Gomez said they were unable to identify what object he said fell into the yard, but a few minutes later they saw something.
“He was a tall, thin, long creature,”
Gomez emphasized.
“It was grayish and greenish in color and when I looked into its eyes my body froze. It had strange looking feet, a face, big eyes and a big mouth.”
Poppa said he spoke to a neighbor who also heard a loud noise around the time the incident was reported.
An LVMPD media spokesperson told The Post on Tuesday that they do not have a “Homeland Security” department until it was brought to their attention that LVMPD mentions a Homeland Security department on their website that is headed by Deputy Chief Sasha Larkin. The spokesperson then said they were preparing a statement about the security cameras, which he has not yet emailed to The Post.
They also did not answer questions about why Marc Berry, a retired Las Vegas police officer who is helping with the investigation, told NewsNation on Monday that officers made only one visit to the home when the family claimed two detectives showed up after the first two officers responded and two more officers later made another visit.
The initial police response lent credibility to the family’s version of events.
One of the two officers who made the initial response call to the family can be heard on body camera footage saying he was taking their complaint seriously because another officer had seen something in the sky that matched the family’s description just eight minutes earlier.
But after the images went viral, other types of testimonies about what happened began to spread.
On Monday, Reuters debunked a video showing a digitally edited image of an alien-like creature that several media outlets had assumed was real.
As we can see, there are all kinds of lights and shadows in this strange incident involving UFOs and aliens. What is real or not is up to you.