There are many reports of Alien Big Cats (ABC’s, as their devotees like to call them) in the fortean database.  This one, which I found in the French daily Libération (July 25, 1994), and passed along to the INFO Journal at the time, seems to have been overlooked.  I was unable to find a follow-up, explanation, confirmation, or debunking in the days that followed.  I rediscovered it in my files; and ran a few www searches, but turned up no mention of it.  I post it here for ABC buffs to ponder; and because I find a panther showing up on an airport security camera outside Paris such a haunting image.  I doubt that big cats do indeed prowl urban airports at night; but, if I had my way, they would.

WILD BEAST.  A feline freely roaming the airport zone of Roissy was filmed by a security camera Thursday night.  The animal, of adult age, resembles a panther or puma.  The alert was not given until the next day, when the videotape was reviewed.  Yesterday, the cat had still not been found.  As a security measure, the police of Seine-Saint-Denis recommend that windows not be left open in ground floor apartments.

(Posted by Doug Skinner)