Fields south of the village of Coppull were the setting for a large black-cat sighting reported at 11.30pm in July 1991, a precisely timed account for a category of report that so often survives only in vague, undated form. The witness described an animal of a size comparable to a puma, a substantial predator seen clearly enough at night to be confidently compared to a specific, recognisable big cat rather than simply described as unusually large.
The sighting sits within the broader, long-running pattern of alien big cat reports found across rural England, a phenomenon this collection records repeatedly in county after county, most of these reports resting, as here, on a single witness's account of an animal glimpsed briefly at night, with no photographic or physical evidence surviving to allow anyone a more confident identification after the fact.
What the Coppull sighting offers, beyond its place within that wider national pattern, is genuine precision of time and place, an exact date, an exact time, and a specific stretch of fields south of a named village, details that many comparable big-cat reports elsewhere in this collection simply do not provide. It remains, honestly, unverified and uncorroborated by any second witness or piece of physical evidence, but its specificity gives it a slightly firmer anchor in actual, dateable local memory than many of its thinner counterparts.
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