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Sourced using AI1980s · Kilwa Kisiwani, southern Tanzanian coast
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Durban, Natal
Read record →Sourced using AI1054 CE · Song China; observations associated with the sky near Taurus
Read record →Sourced using AIFourth century BCE · Plato’s philosophical narrative; cosmic regions beyond the battlefield
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 reports and cultural studies · Queensland and New South Wales
Read record →Sourced using AI8th century CE; surviving manuscript c. 10th century · Anglo-Saxon England
Read record →Sourced using AI2014, exact date to verify · Brisbane, Queensland
Read record →Sourced using AI2007 · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI1617 · Oppenheim
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s · Karoo region, South Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI2002 · Barrow (Utqiaġvik), Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI2009 (exact date requires verification) · Honolulu, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AISeptember 1969 · North Adams, Massachusetts
Read record →Sourced using AI2007 · Phoenix metropolitan area, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AI2002–2006, individual date to verify · San Juan, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1977–1981 · Birmingham/Elmdon Airport, West Midlands, England
Read record →Sourced using AI20th-century reports; older Chinese textual and folkloric motifs · Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, and western Chinese mountain regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Prescott, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · Bloemfontein airspace
Read record →Sourced using AIMay–July 1909 · Canterbury and other parts of New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Kuwait City
Read record →Sourced using AI2003 · Northern Ontario, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI2000 · Sydney, New South Wales
Read record →Sourced using AI1992–1996 · Tromsø and surrounding airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Dublin, Ireland
Read record →Sourced using AI1997 · Connecticut River Valley, Connecticut and Massachusetts
Read record →Sourced using AI1955–1956 · Ross Sea, McMurdo Sound and Antarctic approaches
Read record →Sourced using AI2016 · Plovdiv
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 Jamaican folklore documentation · Jamaica, especially rural districts
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth century · Congo Basin and Central African river systems
Read record →Sourced using AI1930s onward · Acre and Amazonas, Brazil
Read record →Sourced using AI1960 · Tan Son Nhut, Saigon
Read record →Sourced using AI1984 · Chaguaramas
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2014 · Constanța, Romania
Read record →Sourced using AI1980 · Vienna-Schwechat Airport, Vienna
Read record →Sourced using AI2000s after closure · Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia
Read record →Sourced using AI1918–1922 · European Russia
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Apia, Western Samoa
Read record →Sourced using AI1917 · Petrograd and Russian military districts
Read record →Sourced using AI1980s · Yaroslavl Oblast, especially Yaroslavl and Rostov Veliky
Read record →Sourced using AIOriginal account c. 4th–3rd century BCE; preserved in later authors · Mauryan India as described by a Seleucid ambassador
Read record →Sourced using AI20th-century tradition; date of origin disputed · Hospital Juárez and Mexico City hospital folklore
Read record →Sourced using AI1962 · Caribbean, especially Cuba and Guadeloupe
Read record →Sourced using AI1981 · Lushan, Nantou County
Read record →Sourced using AI1940–1946, date to verify · Zurich area
Read record →Sourced using AI2021 · Qingdao, Shandong; airport vicinity
Read record →Sourced using AI1967–1971 (undated) · Mongolia (exact location requires verification)
Read record →Sourced using AI1971 (exact date requires verification) · China (exact location requires verification)
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