GOOD news for alien and Bigfoot hunters everywhere – a new feature in Google Maps has been launched that allows you to keep track of sightings in your neighborhood.
The crowdsourced map reveals UFO and Bigfoot sightings near you -- and there are more than you might think.
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Dubbed Bigfoot, UFO & More Sightings, the resource is a Google map that currently comprises 361 sightings dating back to the 1940s.
The map is an assemblage of recent public submissions and historical records.
The national map is crowdsourced, meaning anyone can contribute.
It was started by Thomas Marcum of Bell County, Kentucky in 2014 and has over 1.3million views so far - with the last entry made less than two weeks ago.
It's estimated that two-thirds of Americans believe in extraterrestrial life.
And, in a week where three "unidentified objects" have been shot down by the US government, the public has been on red alert for possible supernatural sightings.
Is ET finally calling home? Or have sci-fi fanatics been let loose with a spreadsheet?
The US government has dismissed rumors that the recent take-downs could be life from another planet.
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"I just wanted to make sure we address this from the White House: I know there have been questions and concerns about this but there is no – again, no – indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent take-downs,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a conference yesterday.
But according to defenders of the map, there is a more sinister history to be told of objects in the sky and creatures in the bushes.
The entries have a strict vetting process to weed out "fake entries," Marcam explained, which involves sending a nearby investigator to the site.
"A woman walking her dog and playing the harmonica has encounter with a young Bigfoot," reads one entry in west Kentucky from 2012.
Another entry from 1959 describes an "Orange Eyed Monster" spotted in a rural area of Ohio.
Three teens claimed to have seen a "huge hairy orange beast rise from the ground fog," according to the map.
"While going fishing witness sees female Bigfoot with baby in swamp," reads another entry from near Baltimore, Maryland in 1972.
But one hotspot stands out above all: Harlan County, Kentucky.
Here, dozens of spooky sightings of UFOs and Bigfoot populate the Virginia border.
"The UFO left a yellow, white and red exhaust stream behind it as it moved away," states one Harlan County entry from December 2022.
Another zone with multiple entries is the mountainous region of Colorado Springs, where three separate entries all point to the same UFO sighting in 2020, which was even filmed by witnesses.
According to the entry: "10 plus people witnessed an unknown object in the sky for over 30 minutes."
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