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Sourced using AI17 November 1986 · Near Fairbanks, Alaska, over the interior Pacific Northwest air corridor
Read record →Sourced using AIExcavated in the 1970s and 1980s; major hominin discovery reported in 2007 · Peñablanca, Cagayan, Luzon
Read record →Sourced using AI16th–17th century, exact date to verify · Seoul region, Korea
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 · China, including Shanghai and southern provinces
Read record →Sourced using AI2000s · Weston, West Virginia
Read record →Sourced using AI1997–2001 · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2021 · Montenegro and adjacent Adriatic airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI2016 (approximate) · Londrina, Paraná
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Tbilisi airspace, Georgia
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 · Swansea, Wales
Read record →Sourced using AI1915 · Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula
Read record →Sourced using AIPreserved in a Greek account, probably 1st–2nd century CE, claiming earlier Phoenician material · Byblos and Phoenician cultural sphere
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly twentieth century; exact incident chronology disputed · Jujuy, Argentina
Read record →Sourced using AIMarch 1966 · Portage Lake, Michigan
Read record →Sourced using AIProbably late antique, with later revisions; commonly dated around 4th–6th centuries CE · Syriac Christian literary world
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009 visitor and war-memory accounts · Baalbek, Beqaa Governorate
Read record →Sourced using AI1972–1976 · McChord Air Force Base and Tacoma-area airspace, Washington
Read record →Sourced using AI1970–1979 · Freetown and the Sierra Leone coast
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly twentieth century–1946 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1920 · Australia, including southeastern coastal regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s · Tikal and Petén, Guatemala
Read record →Sourced using AI2010s · New York City, New York, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Read record →Sourced using AI1983 · Manchester area
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century reports · Bellows Falls, Vermont
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 · Tromsø, Norway
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly ninth century · Japan; text compiled in the Nara/Heian transition
Read record →Sourced using AIAugust 12, 1915 · Suvla Bay, Gallipoli
Read record →Sourced using AI2002–2006 · La Paz Department, near San Salvador
Read record →Sourced using AI1948 · Near Ashgabat, Turkmen SSR
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Neuquén
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 · Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Read record →Sourced using AI1835 · New York City and other U.S. newspaper markets
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Helsinki (Helsingfors), Finland
Read record →Sourced using AIReported 1775; printed in nineteenth-century maritime collections · North Atlantic or Arctic waters, depending on version
Read record →Sourced using AI1998–1999 · Brno, South Moravian Region
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Porto metropolitan area
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Vancouver, British Columbia
Read record →Sourced using AI1910s–1920s · Medan, Sumatra
Read record →Sourced using AI1689 · Boston and New England
Read record →Sourced using AI1910s · Houston, Texas
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 (exact date uncertain) · São Paulo, São Paulo
Read record →Sourced using AI1960s · California, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1925–1940s · South America; debated in Australia and Europe
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 · United States coastal waters, naval stations, and oceanic airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1969 · Various locations in the United Kingdom
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