There are an awful lot of stories, going way back.
I’ve always thought that Bigfoot - whether an actual creature or some kind of atavistic psychic/psychological phenomenon - was a lot more believable than the notion that extraterrestrials are visiting us in little nuts-and-bolts spaceships.
In reading first nations accounts they talk of something they encountered like a bigfoot so there has to be something to this issue.
Frankly, I’m kind of the opinion with them of live and let live if they stay away from the house, if that is what they are.
One time I did use gunfire at an event that happened. 10:45 at night, June three day build up to the event. I would go outside on the porch and sit and my wife would put the kids to bed and then come out and we would sit and listen to the mountains. I would go out and nothing but the smell of the mountains, my wife would come out and within five minutes it was like smelling road kill and a dumpster in a July heatwave. I mentioned this to her on day three and she was like ha-ha funny, but acknowledged what was happening.
Finally on the third day something hit the back side of the house hard 10-12 times while my wife and I were sitting on the front porch. I had a .357 magnum and went to confront, yelled a warning and fired warning round into the ground. Wife retrieved an M1 carbine and I sent her and the .357 in the house to turn on the back porch light. As I approached in near darkness I head multiply heavy footfalls in the back yard. Again I yelled I am armed and hitting my house in the middle of the night will get your a$$ shot off! I got to the back and had one sliver of light on the ground from the front yard street light and I cranked off several rounds into that spot. I won’t shoot at something unless I know what it is. I heard footfalls for 2-3 more seconds, then silence. The light came on and I listened a few minutes then I heard what sounded like a freight train tearing through the woods paralleling my house and my mother-in-laws. Whatever it was it was headed into the deep mountains in June with lots of copperheads, rattlesnakes and bear thereabout.