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Sourced using AIProbably late first to third century CE; date disputed · Syria or Mesopotamia
Read record →Sourced using AI1910s–1940s · North Coast of British Columbia, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 · Algiers
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward · Point Pleasant, West Virginia, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1982 · Beirut and surrounding Lebanon
Read record →Sourced using AIBefore 1900 · Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. territories
Read record →Sourced using AI1769–1770 · New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI2009 · Sierra Vista, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century château; public paranormal investigations in the 2010s · Queaux, Vienne, France
Read record →Sourced using AI1870s–1890s · Mesoamerica and European scholarly institutions
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory
Read record →Sourced using AILate antique through early modern Christian and Islamic shrine traditions · Levant, Egypt and Anatolia
Read record →Sourced using AI2009 · Northwest Territories, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AILongstanding southern African belief tradition; documented in colonial-era ethnography · Southern Africa, especially South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe
Read record →Sourced using AI1950 · Melbourne, Victoria
Read record →Sourced using AI1944 · Western Ukraine and approaches to Romania
Read record →Sourced using AI1986 · Funchal, Madeira
Read record →Sourced using AI1942–1945 · Salvador and Bahia coast
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 research and public reception · Chelyabinsk Oblast, southern Urals
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century reports and folklore · Lake Erie
Read record →Sourced using AI1681–1690 · Mexico City
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century maritime legend · Miramichi Bay and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Read record →Sourced using AI1911 · Cairo
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2021 · Jeju Island, South Korea
Read record →Sourced using AISeptember–October 1954 · Various locations, France
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · Buenos Aires
Read record →Sourced using AIMeteorite found 1984; life claim announced 1996 · Allan Hills, Victoria Land, Antarctica
Read record →Sourced using AI1974–1976 · Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 · Berlin-Tegel, Berlin
Read record →Sourced using AI30–31 March 1990 · Airspace over central and southern Belgium
Read record →Sourced using AI1805–1818; published later in the nineteenth century · Central and southern Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1969 · Lake Worth, near Fort Worth, Texas
Read record →Sourced using AImedieval Japanese tradition, recorded by the 12th century · Adashino, western Kyoto
Read record →Sourced using AIMarch–April 1897 · Omaha, Nebraska
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 television episode · Western Zambia, especially the Jiundu swamps
Read record →Sourced using AI2014–2015, exact date to verify · Calama, Antofagasta Region
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 1952 · San Francisco Bay Area, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1950 · United Kingdom; multiple locations
Read record →Sourced using AIJanuary 2008 · Stephenville, Texas
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 · Various locations in the United States and Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI1992–1996 reports · Mendoza Province, especially Andean foothills
Read record →Sourced using AI2011 · Cape Town, Western Cape
Read record →Sourced using AI1991 · Florence-Peretola Airport, Tuscany
Read record →Sourced using AI1991 · Persian Gulf theater
Read record →Sourced using AI1880s–1890s; published 1880 and 1890s · Navajo Nation and the Four Corners region
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Tarim Basin, Xinjiang
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 · Rafael Hernández Airport, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1989–1991 · Tashkent, Uzbek SSR
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