(OPINION) When a Las Vegas family told police they saw something “not human” in their backyard, they were not lying, a veteran crime scene recreation expert said.

Scott Roder, of Evidence Room Animation and Exhibits, used his expertise and motion tracking software to analyze the video of a purported UFO crash landing in Sin City last April.

He told NewsNation they tried to “debunk” the responding officers’ bodycam footage or prove something was added to the video.


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Now, he said he is convinced there were two creatures creeping around the family’s Las Vegas yard that night. “All of our results came back as authentic,” Roder said. “There’s no editing. That is an original video.”

Last year, Las Vegas police responded to a bizarre 911 call after a resident said he saw a “tall, skinny alien creature with greenish color,” about eight to 10 feet tall.

He told police the “creature” hid behind a forklift in their backyard.

“I looked at it in the eyes, and my body just froze like having sleep paralysis,” the witness, Angel Kenmore, previously said in a YouTube video. “He had a weird-looking face, big feet and big shiny eyes and a big mouth.

“I can hear its loud, deep breathing and its stomach kept moving. He would stare at me, and seconds later, I could move again.”

Roder poured over the footage and watched it over and over until he finally spotted what he missed every time, two beings in the video at the same time, he told NewsNation’s show “Banfield.”

Using motion-tracking software that zeroes in on the source of motion, Roder said he “attach(ed) (motion) to a figure in the background to show that the movement of the shadow reflects the movement of a body that is attached to the head.”

“We don’t believe it’s a floating head,” he said. “We believe it’s attached to a body. And the motion of that head from right to left is consistent with the motion that we see between the fence slats.”

The story has been fiercely debated since a streak of light lit up the Las Vegas sky late April 30, 2023. According to the American Meteor Society, at least 21 people across eastern California, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah reported seeing the glowing green light.