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Sourced using AIAugust 1965 · Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota
Read record →Sourced using AIFebruary–March 1945 · Iwo Jima and surrounding bomber and naval routes
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · New York City, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI1844 · Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1962 · Israel, including Negev and coastal areas
Read record →Sourced using AI1910s · Surabaya, Java
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Cairo and possibly other Egyptian localities
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 · Johannesburg / OR Tambo International Airport area
Read record →Sourced using AI1950 · Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
Read record →Sourced using AI1952–1953 · Korea
Read record →Sourced using AILate antique or early medieval; composition date disputed · Jewish textual tradition, probably connected with Palestine or Babylonia in scholarly debate
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · Algiers
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 ethnographic and historical documentation · Buganda and the interlacustrine Great Lakes region
Read record →Sourced using AI1972–1975 · Tapanui, Otago
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval Japanese tradition; studies and exhibitions 2010 onward · Japan
Read record →Sourced using AIWarring States text; received compilation later · China
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 1615 · Andean Peru
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · Charleroi
Read record →Sourced using AI8 January 1981 · Trans-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s · Southern Caspian Sea, Iran and Azerbaijan
Read record →Sourced using AI2000 · Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · Jammu and Kashmir, India
Read record →Sourced using AI15th–17th centuries · Near Bulawayo, Matabeleland
Read record →Sourced using AI1960 (exact date to verify) · Adelaide, South Australia
Read record →Sourced using AI4–5 April 1957 · RAF West Freugh, Wigtownshire, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AI2016 · Bologna airspace, Italy
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Charleston, South Carolina
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Rome, Italy
Read record →Sourced using AI1920s–1930s documentation · Azande region, northern Belgian Congo and southern Sudan
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · St. Paul, Alberta
Read record →Sourced using AI1950 (date uncertain) · Clark Field, Luzon
Read record →Sourced using AI19th century–present; discussed in modern cryptozoology · Amazon rainforest, especially Brazil and Bolivia
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1969–1970 · Bossburg, Washington
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 (exact date requires verification) · Near Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · Kangerlussuaq, Greenland
Read record →Sourced using AI2013–2016 · Brno, Czech Republic
Read record →Sourced using AI1983 · Lahore, Pakistan
Read record →Sourced using AI1840s–1890s publication and study · Ancient Egyptian textual collections, including Thebes
Read record →Sourced using AI2017 · Ishinomaki and coastal Tōhoku
Read record →Sourced using AI2000 · Guangzhou, Guangdong
Read record →Sourced using AIProbably compiled in Ge'ez in the 14th century · Ethiopian highlands and the Horn of Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI1994-12 · Nanjing, Jiangsu
Read record →Sourced using AI1577 · Lisbon
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century oral and colonial historical accounts · Kāpiti Coast and lower North Island, New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · San Sebastián
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 (exact date to verify) · Davao City, Philippines
Read record →Sourced using AI2023, date uncertain · Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
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