So, you’ve probably seen wild stories about this on the news:
“Big, shiny eyes. Towering nearly 10 feet tall. 100% not human.” the Los Angeles Times.
“Vegas police respond to report of ’10-foot creature’ in yard after green flash across sky.” CNN.
“Aliens among us? Vegas UFO report latest in UAP sightings investigated worldwide.” USA Today.
And many other places. UFO stories are good for “clicks”, for ratings, and the wilder, the better.
But let’s look at this carefully. From this video, it is obvious that the object is a brilliant meteor fireball. I’ve seen many such videos before, and even a few such fireballs with my own eyes. Now in this copy of the video, we can see the time stamp (for some reason George Knapp’s Channel 8 seems to have chopped it off in their copies). And when I saw the time stamp, I realized, since the American Meteor Society records such fireballs, this gives us something to investigate.
| American Meteor Society map showing observers’ locations. Trajectory was east-to-west. |
The American Meteor Society states, “We received 21 reports about a fireball seen over AZ, CA, NV and UT on Monday, May 1st 2023 around 06:48 UT.” This exactly matches the time stamp on the above video. There is no doubt remaining, what people saw that night, all across the Western states (and not just in Las Vegas), was a brilliant fireball. Watch the video on that AMS page, and you will see how absolutely brilliant the meteor became for just a second.
What about those 8-foot-tall aliens reportedly seen in the back yard? Well, it turns out that Angel, the guy who claimed to see the aliens, now has a YouTube channel named “Alien Society 51.” On it, he tells his yarn about how two giant alien creatures supposedly invaded his back yard. Here is another interview with him, where he tells how the alien went into his fork lift. Believe it, if you can.
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| Honest, I’m not making this stuff up! |
Some people are suggesting that a circular pattern in the gravel in his yard was left by the saucer landing, although Angel did not strongly make such a claim. In any case, photos from Google Earth reveal that this pattern already existed more than a year before the supposed incident.
In January, 2022, a twitter account called “Alien Society 51 NFT” was created, and some have attempted to link it to Angel. NFTs (“Non-Fungible Tokens”) are a type of digital ownership certificate, pertaining to works of art. While a few people have profited greatly from such “investments,” they remain highly speculative. That NFT account never went beyond its initial posting. Other than the name similarity, I have not seen anything to connect “Alien Society 51” to “Alien Society 51 NFT.”
When a transparently bogus story like this makes national headlines, usually without a hint of skepticism or investigation, it shows the sorry state of UFOOlogy, and so-called “journalism,” today.
