Creature record / 1965
30 March 1965. The water off Dores, at the north-east end of Loch Ness. Miss E. M. J. Keith and her brother-in-law, James T. Ballantyne, watched something on the loch. It stayed in view for seven minutes. Afterwards each of them wrote down what they had seen. Two separate accounts. One event. Within a year their statements were in the hands of Sir Solly Zuckerman, the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser. They arrived beside the RAF's analysis of a film taken by Tim Dinsdale. Today the typescript sits in the Zuckerman Archive at the University of East Anglia. It has never been digitised. What the two witnesses described is still waiting to be read.
In the mid 1960s the Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau was gathering sighting reports from around the loch. Its co-founder, David James MP, was also writing to Sir Solly Zuckerman, the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser. A 1963 independent panel had found that no scientifically satisfactory evidence had been put before it. In May 1965 James told Zuckerman that a Royal Society grant had been refused. The Bureau kept collecting.