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Sourced using AI19th century onward · South Island lakes and rivers, especially Fiordland
Read record →Sourced using AI1861 publication; underlying K’iche’ tradition is older · Guatemala
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · South Australia, including Adelaide-area airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1914–1918 · Melbourne and Victoria
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Florence / Peretola
Read record →Sourced using AI2 July 1937 · Howland Island and adjacent Pacific waters
Read record →Sourced using AILong-duration oral tradition; collected in nineteenth- and twentieth-century folklore studies · Malawi, eastern Zambia and central Mozambique
Read record →Sourced using AI1982 · Northern Israel and Lebanon airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1960 · Honolulu, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI2005 · Frankfurt am Main, Hesse
Read record →Sourced using AI15 August 1952 · Great Falls, Montana, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Hessdalen Valley, Trøndelag
Read record →Sourced using AI1992–1996 · Jacksonville Air Route Traffic Control Center, Florida
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Gothenburg, Västra Götaland
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s reports and photographic claims · Pidhirtsi, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
Read record →Sourced using AI2019 (exact date to verify) · Peoria-area airspace, Illinois
Read record →Sourced using AILate 19th century; exact report date varies · Waterville, Ireland
Read record →Sourced using AI2019–2021 · Berlin Brandenburg Airport area, Brandenburg
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Toronto, Ontario
Read record →Sourced using AI1855 · Natal, especially mission stations and Zulu communities
Read record →Sourced using AILate twentieth-century local-story circulation · Casablanca
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · Cochabamba
Read record →Sourced using AI1947 · Montevideo, Uruguay
Read record →Sourced using AIOctober–November 1954 · Innsbruck and Tyrol
Read record →Sourced using AI1838–1841 · Arabic literary world
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 · Near Denver, Colorado
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Bilbao, Basque Country
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Various Argentine airports and routes
Read record →Sourced using AI1972 · Curitiba, Paraná
Read record →Sourced using AISummer–autumn 1947 · Alaska, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Dien Bien Phu, northern Vietnam
Read record →Sourced using AI2007–2011 (date to verify) · Rotterdam–The Hague Airport area
Read record →Sourced using AI1860s–1890s · Gisborne, East Coast and central North Island, New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI24 November 1926 · Pondicherry
Read record →Sourced using AIJanuary 1974 · Llandrillo, near Corwen, North Wales
Read record →Sourced using AI1920 · Calcutta, Bengal
Read record →Sourced using AI2007–2009 · Kumburgaz, Istanbul Province, Turkey
Read record →Sourced using AIcomposite, probably 2nd century CE materials · Eastern Han China
Read record →Sourced using AI1916 · Lincolnshire
Read record →Sourced using AI2007–2011 · Keflavík and southwest Iceland
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval work; modern Arabic editions circulating in the 1950s–1960s · Arabic-speaking publishing networks, especially Cairo and Beirut
Read record →Sourced using AI1926–1937 · Petén, Guatemala
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · Rio de Janeiro airspace
Read record →Sourced using AILate antique origin; widely copied through the Middle Ages · Mediterranean and western European manuscript cultures
Read record →Sourced using AIContemporary ritual documentation, 2010 onward · Manipur, India
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 1952 · Phoenix and Luke Field area, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AI1984 · Kiruna, Norrbotten
Read record →Sourced using AI1970 · Baku and Azerbaijan SSR airspace
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