Hello Big Cat Searchers,
I hate to put the mocker on the "Black Panther" sighting that was reported
on a Current Affair. However, the cat filmed was clearly a domestic cat.
You can roughly judge the size by comparison with the wire behind it and
the grey and white cat that was also shown. Also look at the grasses that
are in front of and near the cat. They clearly show that the cat was
nothing more than a domestic cat. The head on shot of the cat sitting was
also very reminiscent of a Felis catus. The "expert" they interviewed from
was non-committal (I wonder how much they paid him!).
To cap it all off, the reaction of the woman when asked whether she had
heard about panther sightings before was very unbelievable, as though she
had been coached on what to say beforehand.
Cheers,
Mick Todd
At 09:44 AM 14/05/01 +0800, you wrote:
I saw the story on A Current Affair last week. I am always sceptical
about these stories, but this was very very convincing. The two people
who saw it got about 30 minutes on video in daylight (early morning?) from
their house. I think they live close to Lismore? Some of this video was
shown on ACA. The couple were paid for the video by ACA. ACA also
interviewed someone from the NPWS who had been collecting sightings from
the same area over the years, and they accepted the sighting (and the
others) as genuine. However, no opinion was offered as to how it may have
got there.
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