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Sourced using AILate 16th century, commonly dated c. 1589 · North India; Sanskrit textual tradition
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Holloman AFB and White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Durango, Durango, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward reassessments; approximately 11,000 years ago · Cochise County, Arizona, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Taubaté, São Paulo
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 onward · Svalbard Airport, Longyearbyen
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Yerevan and Armenian SSR
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s reissues and documentary treatments · Philadelphia Naval Shipyard; alleged maritime test site
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Charleston, South Carolina
Read record →Sourced using AI4th century BCE · Athens / Greek literary context
Read record →Sourced using AI1868 · Valparaíso
Read record →Sourced using AI2013 · University of Virginia cases, including South Asian reports
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · Francistown
Read record →Sourced using AIWorld War I association; later tourism and literary memory · Wadi Rum, Aqaba Governorate, Jordan
Read record →Sourced using AIFebruary 2023 · Montana and other parts of the United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1992–1996 · Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AI2008–2009 · Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore
Read record →Sourced using AI17th century, especially 1620s–1660s · Ndongo and Matamba
Read record →Sourced using AI1957–1958 · Antarctica, including U.S. and allied stations
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Eureka, California
Read record →Sourced using AI2018–2019 circulation; retrospective studies after 2019 · Latin America, especially Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Spanish-speaking online communities
Read record →Sourced using AIJanuary 2000 · Capron, Illinois
Read record →Sourced using AI1982–1986 · Samoa and nearby air routes
Read record →Sourced using AI1972 · Hilo, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward paranormal reports · Zimbabwe; exact sites vary by report
Read record →Sourced using AINovember 2020 · San Juan County, Utah
Read record →Sourced using AI1926 · Morocco
Read record →Sourced using AI1983 · Fort Meade, Maryland, and the Monroe Institute, Faber, Virginia, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1906–1925 · Bolivia, Brazil and border regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1988 · Harare, Mashonaland East
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Arenal, Alajuela Province
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Phoenix metropolitan area, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Rosario, Santa Fe Province
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Quebec, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 (exact date requires verification) · Marseille/Provence, France
Read record →Sourced using AI1999 · New Brunswick
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 20,000–18,000 BCE · Lake Edward region, formerly Belgian Congo
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · Skagen, North Jutland
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 · Singapore
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Juneau, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s diving accounts · North Atlantic off Nantucket
Read record →Sourced using AI1859–1878 · Syria, Palestine and Lebanon
Read record →Sourced using AI2005 · Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2021 · Perth coast, Western Australia
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 onward · Detroit, Michigan, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1987 · Anchorage, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI793 and 806 CE entries · Northumbria and Britain
Read record →Sourced using AI1924 encounter; later published account · British Columbia, Canada
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