...after Nessie-spotting USA tourist on Highland tour bus spies ‘large, dark object’ breaking the surface of the loch in the Great Glen, near Inverness.

A busy spate of Nessie sightings has continued after another visitor to Loch Ness took pictures of a large dark object breaking the surface.

There have now been six possible sightings of the Loch Ness Monster so far in 2026, after US tourist Nickolas Weigand shared the tale of his encounter with the legendary beast on the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register.

Mr Weigand’s sighting took place on May 18 at 10.14am when he was enjoying a bus tour past the shores of the loch.

While filming footage of the loch through the window he caught a glimpse of something large and mysterious on the water.

He told the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register: “At the time of the filming, I was only looking through the viewfinder of my camera rather than the lake itself. We were driving at a pretty fast rate down the roadway directly next to Loch Ness.

“Because our tour was limited on time, I did not have time to watch my recorded footage until after the tour was over.

“After careful review of the footage, I discovered something mysterious and unknown deep in the water quite far away from shore. In the footage and in the still photographs I captured from the video, you can clearly see a dark image of something breaking the water surface as we drove by.

“The object is relatively large, gauging the distance from where we were on the bus to the distance of the water, using road signs on shore to gauge what was the size of whatever was in the water.”

A large, dark object (circled in red) can be seen sticking out of the surface of the loch in the newest possible sighting of Nessie.

Mr Weigand’s sighting came just weeks after a cluster of three encounters in quick succession in late April.

So far, five of this year’s sightings have been from on-site visitors to the loch, with the sixth being made through one of the live webcams which cover the waters of Loch Ness around the clock.

In 2025, there were only six in-person sightings of the beast over the course of the entire year - a total which looks set to be eclipsed in 2026, with well over half a year still to go.