Editing Loch Ness Monster (section)

===Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau (1962–1972)===
The ''Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau'' (LNPIB) was a UK-based society formed in 1962 by [[Norman Collins]], [[R. S. R. Fitter]], politician [[David James (British politician)|David James]], [[Peter Scott]] and Constance Whyte<ref>Henry H. Bauer, ''The Enigma of Loch Ness: Making Sense of a Mystery'', p. 163 (University of Illinois Press, 1986). {{ISBN|0-252-01284-4}}</ref> "to study Loch Ness to identify the creature known as the Loch Ness Monster or determine the causes of reports of it".<ref>Rick Emmer, ''Loch Ness Monster: Fact or Fiction?'', p. 35 (Infobase Publishing, 2010). {{ISBN|978-0-7910-9779-3}}</ref> In 1967 it received a grant of $20,000 from [[World Book Encyclopedia]] to fund a 2-year programme of daylight watches from May to October.  The principal equipment was 35&nbsp;mm movie cameras on mobile units with 20-inch lenses, and one with a 36-inch lens at [[Achnahannet, Loch Ness|Achnahannet]], near the midpoint of the loch. With the mobile units in laybys about 80% of the loch surface was covered.<ref name="Machine">{{Cite magazine |last=Spector |first=Leo |date=14 September 1967 |title=The Great Monster Hunt |magazine=Machine Design |location=Cleveland, Ohio |publisher=The Penton Publishing Co.}}</ref> The society's name was later shortened to the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau (LNIB), and it disbanded in 1972.<ref name=DMirror1972>{{Cite news |last=<!-anonymous letter commenting on news: name and address supplied--> |date=1 June 1972 |title=Take a Lesson from Nessie |work=Daily Mirror |location=London}}</ref> The LNIB had an annual subscription charge, which covered administration. Its main activity was encouraging groups of self-funded volunteers to watch the loch from vantage points with film cameras with telescopic lenses. From 1965 to 1972 it had a caravan camp and viewing platform at Achnahannet, and sent observers to other locations up and down the loch.<ref name="HolidayLNIB">{{Cite book |last=Holiday |first=F. W. |title=The Great Orm of Loch Ness: A Practical Inquiry into the Nature and Habits of Water-monsters |publisher=Faber & Faber |year=1968 |isbn=0-571-08473-7 |location=London |pages=30–60, 98–117, 160–173}}</ref><ref>Tim Dinsdale (1973) ''The Story of the Loch Ness Monster'' Target Books {{ISBN|0-426-11340-3}}</ref> According to the bureau's 1969 annual report<ref>{{Cite web |title=1969 Annual Report: Loch Ness Investigation |url=http://www.lochnessproject.org/adrian_shine_archiveroom/paperspdfs/LOCH_NESS_LNI69.PDF |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326050640/https://www.lochnessproject.org/adrian_shine_archiveroom/paperspdfs/LOCH_NESS_LNI69.PDF |archive-date=26 March 2021 |access-date=8 July 2009}}</ref> it had 1,030 members, of whom 588 were from the UK.