So. . .I drove by there again today. I drove by last night as well but today gave me the info I was looking for.
On Evening Lights, there is a wall directly across the street from Secruity Cam guy's house. The wall is regular height, typical for just about any neighborhood in Las Vegas. About six feet high. Light colored. Made of cement? blocks. It runs along the sidewalk that Steven eventually walks down. The wall is no more than three feet from the sidewalk. And the sidewalk and wall run parallel to each other as they go down Evening Lights.
Now, after having just been there and looking at the current satellite photo on Google, the two do not jive. It seems to me there are many more bushes in the satellite photo between the sidewalk and the wall than there are now in 2010.
In any case, as the wall ends at the NW point where the one property ends and the property with the casita begins, there are larger bushes right in a row. I would say they are at least four feet tall. There are three of them. This is different than what I saw last night but it was dark and I didn't want to loiter around. But the bushes are all in a cylinder shape. About four feet tall and about two feet in diameter I would say. All the same size.
Moreover, there is a space between each of them. Probably a foot in between. These bushes are pretty well-kept and have a definite form to them. They are like a yellowish brown color as I remember. I do not think the branches and leaves extend the whole way to the ground.
Now, it COULD be that the white "thing" that looks like a person in the middle of the brown blob COULD be the wall behind the bushes. It is possible that from the camera angle we have, bounced off the reflection in the window that part of the wall would be seen between the bushes. But it would be a VERY small sliver of all. The angle is quite acute. So, a space that would look like a foot straight on, from that angle may only look like 6 inches wide or less. And that white thing looks "thicker" than that. But, I don't know what condition those bushes were in December. They could have been cut down since then, in which case there would be less space between them. Or, they might have had some landscaping done and those bushes were not even there in December. I don't know.
In the end, that hard, dark shadow at 12:00:53 still cannot be explained. In my opinion, having just been there, having been there last night, and having been there not long after I found out about this case, the shadow is caused by something there was there at the time but is not there now. The only caveat I would say is that if Steven was going to that angle off close, walk by that last bush very closely because he was turning into the property with the casita, then he would MAYBE leave a hard shadow like that. Otherwise, if he was headed directly down the street on the sidewalk as if he was just out for a Sunday walk, then I would think that his shadow would have continued to look like it was leading up to 12:00:53. . .soft and lighter.
Could there be a car there? It's weird, for me anyways. When I watch the video right side up, I don't think there is a car there but I think that something went on at 12:00:53. When I watch the video upside down. . .yes I did that so my brain wouldn't try to make sense of the image and I could just look at it for what it is. . .I see a car parked there. Optical illusion? Maybe.
One more thing, I think if we were seeing the wall between those bushes then there would be two white figures there, not one, because there are three bushes, thus two spaces between. (if there were just two bushes there would only be one space in between). But is the image compressed because of the car window? I don't know.
And about the bushes, they are not the kind that would blow in the wind. It looks like that day had a bit of a breeze. These bushes look pretty sturdy and it would take a decent forceful wind to get them to move. So, the movement we see in that brown blob could not be the bushes. It COULD be a person. Or it could just be pixelation.
