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Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s · Galloway, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AIOctober–November 1954 · Several locations in the Netherlands
Read record →Sourced using AIPre-European period; discussed extensively in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries · Polynesia, especially eastern Polynesia and South America
Read record →Sourced using AIUrban legend widely circulated in the 1950s–1960s · Colonia Roma, Mexico City
Read record →Sourced using AI1978–1982 · United States; primarily California
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Ketchikan, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval manuscripts; texts composed and transmitted over several periods · Wales; preserved especially in the White Book of Rhydderch and Red Book of Hergest
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Landskrona, Skåne
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · Gongwangling, Lantian County, Shaanxi
Read record →Sourced using AI1986 · Carolina, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AITraditionally 1586 · Chiquinquirá, Boyacá
Read record →Sourced using AI23 January 2001 · Tiananmen Square, Beijing
Read record →Sourced using AILate 1940s–1950s · Madang and inland areas of Papua New Guinea
Read record →Sourced using AI2019 (month to verify) · Mombasa and Kenyan coastal airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1949–1951 · New Mexico and adjacent Southwest
Read record →Sourced using AI1948 · Hickam Field, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Nome, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009 religious and ethnographic documentation · Tibet Autonomous Region and Tibetan cultural areas of China
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2024 · Springfield, Illinois
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016 · Albany, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI1956 · Jaffna
Read record →Sourced using AI20th century–present; report chronology uncertain · Lamu, Lamu County
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 · Fairbanks, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s · Karak Highway, Pahang, Malaysia
Read record →Sourced using AI1920s · Brooklands, Surrey
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Samples attributed to Bhutan, India, and Indonesia; laboratory analysis in Oxford and Lausanne
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Whitehorse, Yukon
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 500 BCE–500 CE, with earlier and later phases · Nazca and Palpa deserts
Read record →Sourced using AI1981 · Ross Sea sector, Antarctica
Read record →Sourced using AI1493 · Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire; Europe-wide manuscript and print tradition
Read record →Sourced using AI20 April 2013 · Near Rafael Hernández Airport, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 1180 · Lough Derg, County Donegal, and Saltrey
Read record →Sourced using AILate twentieth-century Taiwanese urban legend; possible 1970s–1980s circulation · Beitou District, Taipei
Read record →Sourced using AI2018 · Near Kilauea, Hawaii Island, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI2006 · Naples and Campania
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Bucharest
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · United States, multiple air-defense sectors
Read record →Sourced using AI2001 · Managua, Nicaragua
Read record →Sourced using AI1977 · Fiji, including Suva and surrounding islands
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century Puerto Rican urban folklore · San Juan
Read record →Sourced using AIAt least c. 14,500 years ago · Llanquihue region, southern Chile
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Delhi region
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Toronto, Ontario
Read record →Sourced using AITwentieth-century and later heritage folklore · Delhi
Read record →Sourced using AISilla and Goryeo transmission; modern studies 2010 onward · Korea
Read record →Sourced using AI15 June 1896 · Sanriku coast, Iwate and Miyagi, Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1962–1966 · Subic Bay and Cubi Point, Philippines
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