Wednesday 10 June 2015

UFOs over Loch Ness?




The Daily Mail is running this picture asking if tourists have snapped UFOs flying over Loch Ness. Meteorological explanations are now invited. As for Nessie and Aliens, this blog covered that in a previous post! I am also still waiting to see that nearly infamous photo that Frank Searle took of a UFO and Nessie in the same shot.

Tourists holidaying next to Loch Ness have captured an extraordinary photo which they claim shows a mysterious creature flying over the lake - and it's not Nessie.

Alan Betts, 48, was on holiday with his wife, Anna, and her parents when his mother-in-law Tatiana captured this extraordinary image of two mysterious disc-shaped objects flying over the famous loch in the Scottish Highlands.

The family from York were staying at a holiday cottage near Urquhart Castle when the unusual shot was taken. But they did not realise quite how unusual the picture was until Mr Betts and his wife returned home and started looking through their holiday pictures.

The couple were bewildered when they spotted the strange, glowing, white shapes hovering over the loch. Mr Betts, the director of a refrigeration company based in Bradford, said he was usually 'very sceptical' about UFOs - but he cannot find a rational explanation for the strange picture.

He said: 'Our Akita dog, Yuka, was strangely unsettled that night. He never barks but I remember we were laughing at the time saying that he'd seen Nessie because he was looking outside from the cottage window and barking at the sky. 

We couldn't see anything at that time though. We had been very lucky with the weather and were stunned with the view we had, it was almost constant sunshine but then when we got back to the cottage after a day of sightseeing, the weather suddenly changed.

We'd not seen it change that quickly before, which is why my mother-in-law went outside to take a general landscape picture.

'After the holiday we were looking through the pictures on our PC, as they were taken on a digital camera. On the PC screen the resolution was better and it was only then we saw the objects and when we zoomed in we were shocked. I can't offer any logical explanation, I am probably one of the most sceptical people you could find about things like this but I just can't explain what it is.

'I know what it looks like though. We showed the pictures to Anna's parents who were as shocked as us and her dad is probably more sceptical than me.'

20 comments:

  1. This looks like a reflection in a double-glazed window of a light inside the building. Note how the two reflections are near-identical, and of a warmer colour than the daylight, suggesting an artificial light source. (The family had just returned to their cottage when the weather turned nasty, apparently.) Notice that there also appears to be some kind of grid-like reflection in the lower right-hand corner of the image by the stepping-stones. I'm surprised a picture editor didn't pick up on this, but then again "reflection in window at Loch Ness" probably wouldn't sell as many papers.

    As for them not seeing it at the time, they probably did see it, but didn't notice it (inattention blindness). As for the dog acting up, people often "retro-fit" some coincidental, unconnected occurrence with UFO sightings: the dog was, after all, in unfamiliar surroundings. A shame there's no image of the monster.

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    1. I realsied I missed a bit of the Mail article on my cut-and-paste. That part mentions that the lady went outside to take the picture, so not taken indoors.

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    2. Then quite honestly she is lying. Yet more lies lies lies about these kinds of subjects. I wish we could filter out such people because they pollute the database. Fake photos are like bad apples, they infect the entire barrel as far as the public is concerned. A real shame.

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    3. Or the paper misreported it. Anyway, I am sure two large space craft cruising down the loch would not have escaped the notice of other Loch Ness residents.

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    4. Looks like Anonymous above and I have come to the the same conclusion. I picked up on this last night before anything was posted. Quite obvious. Anonymous below is also correct about papers running with anything looking sensational.

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    5. The opening comment by Anonymous is spot on. Also once you spot the eye of the lady reflected in the window you can compare the hair style to that of Mr Betts' wife Anna, featured in another photo on the agency website. The 'grid effect' mentioned is actually her pale blouse. D

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  2. Maybe Ted Holiday was right !
    Now where's my copy of the Dragon and the Disc ?

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  3. Well, I can't come up with any good meteorological explanation, too low to be clouds. A smudge on the lens? Reflection from something? It looks like mirror images of something. If it was taken looking out a window, it could be a refection from inside. If you look at the lower right quarter of the pic you can just make out a different texture, indicative of a reflection from within, possibly a lamp. If not that, I give Up!

    Here's my tongue in cheek answer: There's a wormhole at Loch Ness and they're here to checkup on their pet Nessie's. Next stop, the Pacific Northwest to check on Bigfoot. Hey, one crazy explanation is as good as the next. I mean UFOs at Loch Ness, not Nessie. :-)

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  4. Is it the fighter jets that regulary fly over??

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    1. Yeah Jake, the new fighter jets from Area 51. lol :-)

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    2. Now now John. Lol there are jets that fly over loch ness every day. Straight down from fort augustus to inverness way !

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  5. See, light reflections, waves, whatever. The papers love anything related to Loch Ness, however tenuous.

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  6. Light reflecting off house windows in my humble opinion,

    Reminds me a lot of the 'albino nessie' pic taken by the dude at Aldourie Castle a year or so ago.

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    1. Let's just be grateful that the reflection was positioned in the sky rather than the water. Otherwise we'd have had some extended debate about monsters a la Jonathan Bright photo.

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    2. Speak for yourself, anonymous person.

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  7. Intriguing article. There has been a link between the loch and flying saucers for many decades.

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  8. It would appear to be a reflection in the window of part of Mrs Betts necklace. She is wearing the same necklace in the accompanying photo on the Mail website.

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  9. My first thought upon seeing this image was that its shape and colouration remind me an awful lot of Canadian geese (like the ones that attacked me in Hyde Park as a child, for the crime of having a peanut butter sandwich I was unwilling to part with); it's more likely some sort of lensflare thing, but it's still geese-like enough to me to make me remember those bitey buggers.

    BTW, I think a post of mine a few weeks ago got ate by the Interwebz; it just said how very much I enjoy it when you do your video tours of the greater Ness area. I am determined to get there myself one day, but in the meantime, your vids/snaps tide me over nicely.

    Cheers!

    Storm in California

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  10. Found an article on this alleged UFO photo on a dedicated UFO website here:

    http://www.openminds.tv/ufo-photo-captured-over-loch-ness/33985

    Click on the link provided at the end of the story under Update for a complete analysis and debunking, or follow the link here:

    https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-ufo-over-loch-ness-reflection-in-dual-pane-window.t6373/

    Case closed, next!

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