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.”
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.
“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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