Source : Perth Now news
Secret services operatives in the UK investigated the Loch Ness Monster and concluded it was real.
It has been revealed British officials looked into sightings of the fabled beast back in the 1960s – analysing captured by the local Loch Ness Investigation Bureau (LNIB) – and they decided there was likely to be an unidentified “animate” creature living beneath the surface.
A video shot by former RAF pilot Tim Dinsdale in 1960 which appeared to show a “hump” moving across the water of the Scottish loch was analysed by workers at the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre (Jaric).
A report into the film concluded: “The assumption is that it is not a surface vessel. One can presumably rule out the idea that it is any sort of submarine vessel for various reasons, which leaves the conclusion that it is probably is an animate object.”
Experts also looked at a second film which was captured by 17-year-old student Richard Raynor in June 1967 and the report concluded: “There is an impression of some object at the head of the disturbance, as if the object was momentarily breaking the surface though mainly submerged.
“A possible length for that part of the object which seems to break the surface is in the order of seven feet.”
The reports have been published in a new book called A Naturalist’s View of the Loch Ness Enigma by Loch Ness Monster expert Adrian Shine.
The book also included correspondence between LNIB founding member and former MP David James and defence minister Lord Shackleton, who asked for the findings not to be made public.
In a letter to James sent in January 1967, Shackleton wrote: “I am returning the film material you sent on 14th December together with the interpretation carried out by Jaric.
“I think you will find this extremely interesting. The report comes to the conclusion that ‘it probably is an animate object’ …
“Our preference would be that you made no public reference to the fact that we have come to this conclusion because we would not wish to find the Ministry of Defence taking sides in a public argument about the possible nature of the underwater population of Loch Ness.”
However, Shine gave his own opinion on the Dinsdale footage and concluded the video is most likely to be linked to salmon fishing.
He explained: “Having spoken to salmon anglers, it is clear that the usual practice is to cross to the northern shore, which is where the major salmon rivers enter the loch, and to motor against the prevailing southwesterly wind towards the Moriston River.
“They then drift back with the wind, fly-fishing or trolling, which is towing a lure. This is the course taken by Dinsdale’s object.”
