Append-only living-dossier updates for “Loch Ness from Orbit: Three Elongated Shapes”.https://theanomalyledger.com/en-ushttps://theanomalyledger.com/cases/loch-ness-google-earth-family-2026/#update-3https://theanomalyledger.com/cases/loch-ness-google-earth-family-2026/#update-3A first named-expert reading of the image. Steve Feltham, a full-time Nessie hunter who has lived at Dores since 1991, told NewsNation that the three shapes look like three Canadian canoes: each shows a small protrusion and a splash he reads as paddle action, with two people per canoe. He still believes something lives in the loch, and said part of his work is ruling out false alarms. The quote was syndicated by BANG Showbiz (28 Sep) and reprinted again on 17 Oct alongside register founder Gary Campbell's general view (to the Press and Journal) that a 'family' of animals lives deep in the loch. Campbell's remark isn't an assessment of Fraser's image, and the register still lists no verdict. One observer's opinion from a screen image, not a measurement; status stays open, now leaning prosaic. — Sources: NewsNation, 'Loch Ness Monster sighting? New Google Maps image fuels debate' (Feltham on Hot Takes with Jesse Weber): https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/strange/loch-ness-monster-photo-cryptid-scotland/ · Bang Bizarre / BANG Showbiz, 28 Sep 2026: https://bangbizarre.com/index.php/2026/09/28/loch-ness-monster-hunter-explains-sighting-from-space/ · PerthNow (BANG Showbiz), 17 Oct 2026: https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/world/loch-ness-has-a-family-of-monsters-living-deep-down-c-23034700Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTUpdatehttps://theanomalyledger.com/cases/loch-ness-google-earth-family-2026/#update-2https://theanomalyledger.com/cases/loch-ness-google-earth-family-2026/#update-2Register re-check, 1 Oct 2026 (about 1:50 a.m. AZ time): the Official Loch Ness Sightings Register's 2026 in-person list reads 'Total for the year - 15', the most recent entry dated 21 August, and its separate webcam list shows two 2026 entries (5 March and 9 July). Julie Fraser's three Google Earth shapes appear in neither list, roughly two weeks after the register said it would look. That is not a rejection, and no assessment has been published. Those figures also likely explain the earlier count mismatch: the Inverness Courier (18 Sep) wrote of 14 in-person plus two webcam reports, while IBTimes UK (21 Sep) cited 15 as of a 19 Sep update. The most likely reading is that one in-person entry was added in between; we can't see the register's edit history, so that is our inference. The first independent measurement has also appeared. On 19 Sep the Loch Ness Mystery blog, whose author believes in the animal and says so, measured the shapes in Google Maps at roughly 6.8 to 7.1 m each, about 12 m apart and about 185 m off the south-east (Dores–Whitefield) shore, the same side Fraser called the east shore. He weighed kayaks, logs, lines of birds and wave effects without settling on one, and called the result a conundrum. He also notes the loch's satellite view is stitched together from separate passes, so the pleasure boat with a wake that Fraser compared the shapes against may not have been photographed at the same time. These are one person's on-screen ruler measurements and haven't been replicated. The imagery capture date is still unknown. Status stays open. — Sources: Official Loch Ness Sightings Register: Sightings from 2021 on; Webcam images 2021 on (both checked 1 Oct 2026) · Inverness Courier (18 Sep 2026) · IBTimes UK (21 Sep 2026) · Loch Ness Mystery blog, 'An Interesting Satellite Photograph' (Glasgow Boy, 19 Sep 2026), lochnessmystery.blogspot.comThu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTUpdatehttps://theanomalyledger.com/cases/loch-ness-google-earth-family-2026/#update-1https://theanomalyledger.com/cases/loch-ness-google-earth-family-2026/#update-1As of 21 Sep reporting, Julie Fraser’s three elongated Google Earth shapes remain under Official Loch Ness Sightings Register review with no published assessment. IBTimes UK notes the register’s 2026 list (updated 19 Sep) shows fifteen reports — figures that do not line up cleanly with earlier Courier tallies. Press recirculation continues; pixels under review are not a specimen confirmation. Status stays open. — Sources: Inverness Courier (18 Sep 2026) · IBTimes UK (21 Sep 2026) · Official Loch Ness Sightings Register (lochnesssightings.com)Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTUpdatehttps://theanomalyledger.com/cases/loch-ness-google-earth-family-2026/https://theanomalyledger.com/cases/loch-ness-google-earth-family-2026/A planned Inverness trip, Google Earth’s east shore, and three arcs under review — not confirmed Nessie, not dismissed either.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublished