During my thirty-one career at the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department I was the "keeper of the mountain lion records". We actually had a form that was distributed to each Fish and Game office so accurate information could be collected on each sighting. Some years I would get nearly a hundred. And in a few case that were fresh enough Fish and Game staff tried to investigate if there was any tangible signs. We were never able to find any. Even the well documented scat turned out to be bobcat based on actual DNA evidence.