Thylacine Sightings

Greg Booth, a firewood cutter from Tasmania's Central Highlands, encountered what he believed to be a thylacine in remote bushland in April 2015. He and fellow researchers Adrian Richardson and George Booth subsequently spent two years monitoring the area with 14 trail cameras. On November 4, 2016, one camera captured footage of an unidentified striped animal at dusk. Wildlife conservationist Nick Mooney — who had led the 1982 government search — reviewed the footage and assessed the probability of it being a thylacine at approximately one in three, an unusually high endorsement from a sceptical official source.

Source: https://www.singularfortean.com/news/2017/6/14/striped-animal-caught-on-trail-camera-could-be-thylacine-says-group; https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/study-suggests-tasmanian-tiger-survived-into-the-21st-century/

A farmer and his son were checking lambing ewes when they noticed a strange dog-like animal sitting near ferns, staring directly at them without fleeing. The farmer drove within 40 feet of the animal but it still did not move. When he sent his working dog — usually fearless — to move it on, the dog refused to leave the back of the ute. The farmer later told researcher Steve S. that he recognized the animal because he had seen one on the same property in 1970. Steve S. reported seeing what he believed to be the same animal again in the area in 1997.

Source: https://tassietiger.org/web/thylacine-sightings-prior-to-2000/

Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Officer Hans Naarding was conducting a snipe survey near Togari when he encountered an adult male thylacine at close quarters in torchlight. He observed the animal for approximately three minutes, long enough to count 12 black stripes on a sandy-coloured coat, note pale yellow eye-shine, and watch it perform a defensive jaw gape. Naarding was a trained wildlife biologist and his sighting was kept secret for fifteen months while colleague Nick Mooney conducted an intensive government search of the area using cameras and sand traps. The Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service director described Naarding's account as 'irrefutable.'

Source: http://www.wherelightmeetsdark.com.au/examining-the-evidence/tasmanian-tiger-(thylacine)/naarding-thylacine/