Tasmanian Tigers Are Extinct, So Why Are Locals Reporting Sightings?

These sightings, if true, would reverse the belief that the carnivore has gone extinct.
Reported sightings negate the belief that the carnivore has gone extinct. 

Eye on the tiger: trailing the elusive thylacine

Is it at all likely that the Tasmanian Tiger is not extinct? - Quora

Scientists are trying to resurrect the Tasmanian tiger. So when did the last one die and what about all those sightings? - ABC News

Long-extinct Tasmanian tiger may still be alive and prowling the wilderness, scientists claim

Researchers tentatively place Tasmanian tiger extinction in the late 1990s

Thylacine survey: Are we going to rediscover the moonlight tiger? - Asia Times

The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger

Return of the Tasmanian tiger? - The Statesman

Scientists are trying to resurrect the Tasmanian tiger. So when did the last one die and what about all those sightings? - ABC News

The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger

Juraussie Park: Scientists vow to bring Tasmanian tiger back from extinction - NZ Herald

Back from the dead? Sightings lure scientists in search of Tasmanian tiger

Tasmanian tiger: Citizen scientist goes bush in quest to solve extinction riddle