 The first possible sightings were recorded in 1959, when police received a number of reports of big cats in the Farnham area, near the Surrey/Hampshire border.Two further sightings were recorded, in 1962, by water board personnel in Hampshire, and a third in the winter of 1962-3, a "cat-like beast" was seen at Bushylease Farm, Crondall, Hampshire.When a police officer sighted the supposed Shooter's Hill Cheetah in south-east London in 1963, media interest turned to other big cat sightings.