The reality of cougars on the Atlantic coast came home when one was struck and killed on a highway near Fairfield, Connecticut in 2011.

Now there’s a surprising theory being heard about the sightings of cougars in the East.

A source (who wishes to remain anonymous) tells us that the Cougar Rewilding Foundation is involved in “a new ‘secret project’ for the dumping of wild-captured Texas cougars into the eastern USA national forests. A West Virginia native believes,” the source says, “the ‘dumping” of Texas cougars is already quietly underway, with more in the planning stage into other eastern national forests. A documentary is said to be in ‘production’ at present time,” which will be broadcast on a cable network.

“With all the sightings we have received in the last 4-5 weeks, I think its very possible, the dumping of Texas cougars is already underway in Virginia, Ohio and New York State, where sightings have gone wild,” our source relates.

We await more on this developing story, and the shocking “revelation” of what is supposedly coming in a program on a documentary cable channel in the near future.