A mysterious object dismissed as a buoy on Loch Ness suddenly vanished.
Colin Veacock’s encounter has fuelled hopes it was actually Nessie.
He was on a tourist boat at Urquhart Bay on the famous water.
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At first he thought it may have been a buoy.
But he is now convinced it was something else after returning later and it was gone.
“I thought I could see something but it kept disappearing,” Colin told What’s The Jam.
“I kept losing sight of it.
“It may have been lost in the sunlight on the water.”
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The 59-year-old said: “It appeared from nowhere and vanished in a similar way.
“When a small motor boat came along the thing disappeared.
“Once the boat had passed, the long thing seen in the photo suddenly popped up out of nowhere.
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“To the naked eye through binoculars it looked green.
“It was there for a few minutes then disappeared.
“I think I would have seen someone in the water.
“My first thought was that it was a buoy.
“But when I returned there was no buoy in that area.
“It looked much taller than the boat that passed so I would say four-to-six-feet tall.”
It’s not the first time Col has seen something odd in the world famous loch.
Colin, of Merseyside, added: “In 2021 I spotted a tapering hump for seven or eight minutes.
“That morning someone spotted it in Urquhart Bay.
“I thought it was a lot smaller at first then a boat came by and I judged its size from that.
“I have been going to Loch Ness since 1987 and had never seen a thing until then.”
Urquhart Bay is a Nessie hotspot.
In April the monster was spotted after blowing bubbles below the surface, Annette Harkins said.
She managed to get a snap of what she says is its hump which broke the surface.
She said bubbles came up, but Nessie then vanished.
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