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Sourced using AI1979–1980 · Windhoek, South West Africa/Namibia
Read record →Sourced using AI1914 · German East Africa, especially the coast and Lake Tanganyika region
Read record →Sourced using AI2009 · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Read record →Sourced using AIFebruary 10, 2023 · Atlantic Ocean off the South Carolina coast
Read record →Sourced using AINovember–December 1896 · San Jose, California
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 · Venice, Veneto
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s · Kaghan Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Read record →Sourced using AI2013 · Antarctic Peninsula / Southern Ocean, reported online
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Llandudno, Conwy, Wales
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s–1969 · Near Lake Taupō, North Island, New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI2018 · Bushehr, Iran
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 9–10, 1962 · Lake Worth, near Fort Worth, Texas
Read record →Sourced using AI1982–1986 · Zurich area, Switzerland
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s–1960s · Blue Mountains, New South Wales
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Edmonton, Alberta
Read record →Sourced using AI1841 written; published 1851 · Styria, Austria, in the fictional setting
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Bratislava, Slovakia
Read record →Sourced using AI2000 (often dated approximately) · Buga, Valle del Cauca
Read record →Sourced using AI1970 · Entebbe and Lake Victoria
Read record →Sourced using AIPublished in the nineteenth century; authenticity disputed in the twentieth century · Praeneste (modern Palestrina), Italy
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Guatemala City, Guatemala
Read record →Sourced using AI1997 · Tokyo
Read record →Sourced using AI2013–2016 · Hyderabad, Telangana
Read record →Sourced using AI1911–1914 · Karkamış, Euphrates frontier, Turkey/Syria
Read record →Sourced using AI2019 · Alabama airspace; exact location to be determined
Read record →Sourced using AI1870–1873 · Chittenden, Vermont
Read record →Sourced using AI14th century Ge'ez text · Ethiopian Christian literary tradition
Read record →Sourced using AI1955 · Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AILate twelfth century; extensive medieval and early modern reception · Calabria, especially Fiore and San Giovanni in Fiore
Read record →Sourced using AI2010s · Lake Ichkeul, Bizerte Governorate
Read record →Sourced using AI1881 · Simla and other Indian locations
Read record →Sourced using AI2017 · Greenland, exact airport uncertain
Read record →Sourced using AI1922 · Asunción
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · Odessa and Black Sea approaches
Read record →Sourced using AI2000 · Rovaniemi, Lapland
Read record →Sourced using AI7 December 1941 · Hickam Field, Oahu, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI1997 retrospective publications · Kelly and Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Read record →Sourced using AIAugust 13–14, 1956 · RAF Lakenheath and RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk and eastern England
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · Multiple locations in France
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 1937 · Howland Island, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 publication; approximately 60,000 years ago · Western Cape
Read record →Sourced using AI2023, exact date to verify · Lima and Jorge Chávez International Airport vicinity
Read record →Sourced using AI1988 · Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Cecina, Tuscany
Read record →Sourced using AILate antique text; medieval Hebrew and Arabic transmission before 1800 · Jerusalem in the narrative; transmitted across the eastern Mediterranean
Read record →Sourced using AI1996 · Serbia and Montenegro, reported military airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · England
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