the sightings are actually god damn useless sometimes
a victreebel popped up on
pokesear.ch but not on my sightings even though it was within 200m of where I was
I went out to see if it was actually there or if it had spawns for a scanner worker but not for me
as it turns out, it was actually there and popped up in range, but the entire time never showed up on sightings, even when I was next to it and it was visible on the screen.
I left a couple of minutes after it first showed on the scanner with 15 minutes remaining, and it turned out to be an extended time spawn so it was actually more than half an hour on it
when I was near it it was probably about 7 minutes remaining, yet still wouldn't show on the sightings after checking it constantly on the way there and while there