SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (Reuters) - He has been spotted driving on the Inter-State, strolling through the mall and eating a Big Mac.

Call it paranoia, a bad case of the jitters or just wishful thinking but there has been a rash of Osama bin Laden sightings in and around Salt Lake City with the 2002 Winter Olympic now just over a month away.

The FBI has confirmed it had received over two-dozen calls from Utah residents convinced they had spotted the world's most wanted man, believing bin Laden had slipped through the U.S. military's Afghanistan dragnet and hiding out in the mountains that will soon play host to the Winter Games.

"I don't have an exact number but there have probably been around 25 reported sightings," said FBI spokesperson Kevin Eaton. "A lot of them are just things you can't follow up on like, I saw Bin Laden driving down the Inter-State in a Volkswagen or getting a drink at the 7-11 in Provo."