A video taken on Loch Ness and purportedly showing the legendary monster was recently described as being the 'best footage captured for 20 years'.
However, the clip taken by a couple holidaying in a nearby cottage has left experts unconvinced.
The sighting, which took place on the morning of April 25 at around 6am, has been accepted as the fourth sighting of the monster in 2022 according to the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register.
Recordkeeper Gary Campbell, who has spent over a quarter of a century logging unexplainable sightings on the loch, told the Daily Mail it was the best footage he had seen in decades.
He added that it was a "really, really good sighting" of something "unexplained in Loch Ness".
According to the couple, they estimated the object in the water to be between 20 and 30 feet in length and appeared to have at least one visible fin which it used to move itself forward.
However, author Roland Watson, who runs the Loch Ness Mystery blog, believes the video isn't necessarily strong evidence of something huge in the water.
He explained: "The video is at a similar position and distance as the controversial webcam clips, so trying to discern anything is difficult.
"It looks too big for birds but the two humps mentioned are too small for the classic two hump shape of the Loch Ness Monster."
He added that the lack of detail in the video should not be taken as a reason to discount the naked eye testimony of the witnesses.
Zoologist Dr Darren Naish also passed comment on the sighting, tweeting about it from his @TetZoo Twitter account, he said: "I regret to say that I find the footage totally underwhelming and indeterminate.
"I reckon they're probably ducks. To me, the sighting is symptomatic of the 'expectant attention' phenomenon surrounding Loch Ness: people go there expecting to see its monster, they see anything and automatically assume it's mysterious."
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