Lancashire Police said their main hypothesis was that the mother of two fell suddenly during a 10-minute window after the last known sighting of her and that this is not suspicious but a tragic case of a missing person.
After tracing local CCTV, dashcam and doorbell camera footage, police are confident Ms Bulley did not leave the area near the river.
They say she might have been trying to deal with an "issue" with her springer spaniel Willow, causing her to go to the edge of the River Wyre and into the water, the officer in charge of the missing person investigation said.
"We assume the dog didn't get into the river, but we don't know why Nicola may have if she did," said Superintendent Sally Riley.
When another dog walker found Ms Bulley's phone on a bench beside the river, Willow was darting between the two.
A massive manhunt was launched along the River Wyre in the village of St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, after the 45-year-old, from nearby Inskip, disappeared on Friday 27 January around 9.20-9.30am.
Earlier, she had dropped off her two daughters, aged six and nine, at a nearby primary school.
Her partner, Paul Ansell, 44, said on Friday: "We're never going to lose hope, but right now it's as though she vanished into thin air, it's just insane.
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