European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes tuesday. October 1, 1985 to Hof a dozen Nenie lighting Are reported each year. The monster of Loch Ness Scotland s most enduring legend by Marcus Eliason associated press a Alistair and Susan Boyd were sitting i their car in a rest area overlooking Lohness. Hunting Lor the monster had gotten hem nothing but headaches and eyestrain from hours of gazing through the rain onto the forbidding Gray Waters. They were about ready to give up. Then. Alistair says he saw it. There was a tremendous disturbance in the water. There was nothing on the surface at this stage but i could clearly see that it was a Large animate object. There was a swirling on both sides. There was on the right hand Side a pushing around rather As if you were to swish water around the Bath and a stopping like if you wanted to turn a rowing boat around with  and then a Hump. It was wet and Black. You could see the water running off its Back. The Hump was absolutely symmetrical. It was about 20 Leet  get the camera cried Susan. Alistair rummaged frantically for it. But he was too late. Within seconds the water was Flat and Calm again and there was Little they could do but sketch from memory what they had seen and Brace themselves for the ridicule they knew would come. The Boyds Are Art teachers in their Early 30s from the London area. Their description has All the Hallmarks of a classic  that was six years ago and they have returned to Loch Ness every summer since that sighting in 1979, bristling with binoculars and powerful camera lenses. Fifty two years after the first reported sighting this Century the Loch Ness monster stands with ufos. The abominable snowman and the lost continent of Atlantis among the world s most enduring legends. The methods used to track it have ranged from High tech to High Jinks sonar probes a submarine a Blimp a gyr copter computer enhanced underwater photography a trained Dolphin a Model monster smeared with Salmon Oil a baited Cage and an amphibious Volkswagen. People have reported seeing whale like humps Long necks vast tails a primeval Flipper and in one Case a Dinosaur like creature ambling across the Lakeside Road. The hundreds of sightings have been explained away by sceptics As otters ducks seals swimming Deer cormorants boats mirages shadows wind Slicks was rotting vegetation logs and Shoals of fish. Right now the theories about a Marine Dinosaur a giant eel. A Shell less Turtle outsize Sturgeon or super slug Are Down but not out. On the one hand a spoilsport named Ronald Binns has exhaustively researched and says they never existed. On the other hand there Are the tantalizing sonar readings taken by Amateur loth Nett watcher Alistair Boyd. The Loch Ness and Morar project a 10-year-old British Sie Tilic expedition to locate the monster through 1982. Operating 24 hours a Day. The sonar registered 40 Strong and inexplicable targets at Depths of up to 350 eel which could indicate moving objects larger than any known life in the Lake which is 750 feet deep the expedition funded by Public subscription. Is now looking for $135.000 to buy underwater video cameras that lock onto sonar targets. S2ly. If Worth a businessman who runs the och Ness monster exhibition at this Villae on the Western once eved he he also believes we Are talking not about one creature