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Sourced using AI2022 (date to verify) · Galicia, Spain
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016 · Beirut and eastern Mediterranean airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 reprints and studies · Scottish Highlands and Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1934–1946 · San Francisco Bay, California
Read record →Sourced using AIlate prehistoric and historic periods · Palau and Yap, western Micronesia
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Newark and northeastern New Jersey
Read record →Sourced using AI2005 · Crimea, Ukraine
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 tourism and local tradition · St. Francisville, Louisiana, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1987–1991 · St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1920s · Ponce, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AIWrecked 1906; lifeboat sightings reported afterward · Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Ostrava
Read record →Sourced using AI1970 · Skopje
Read record →Sourced using AI1947 (date uncertain) · Jerusalem
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century travel and occult publications · Giza, near Cairo
Read record →Sourced using AI1980s · Möja, Stockholm archipelago
Read record →Sourced using AI1947 · Portland, Maine
Read record →Sourced using AI1983 · Luanda
Read record →Sourced using AI1954–1956, exact date uncertain · Recife, Pernambuco
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Multiple localities, Argentina
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Toledo, Ohio
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · Japan, multiple locations
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Multiple locations across Great Britain and Ireland
Read record →Sourced using AILate nineteenth-century estate; haunting stories mainly twentieth century onward · Barrios Altos, Lima
Read record →Sourced using AI1955 · South Pacific, en route from Samoa toward the Tokelau Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · San Diego, California
Read record →Sourced using AIRoman Britain, chiefly 3rd–4th centuries CE · West Hill near Uley, Gloucestershire, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1987 · Beijing
Read record →Sourced using AI1984 · Tauranga, Bay of Plenty
Read record →Sourced using AIFebruary 2023 · Alaska, United States
Read record →Sourced using AIProbably 13th–14th century, used in later early-modern traditions · South Asia; Ayurvedic and rasashastra networks
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Antananarivo, Madagascar
Read record →Sourced using AI24 April 1964 · Socorro, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AIModern reports documented in the 2010s and later; older local lore · St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AIDecember 2024 · Nassau and Suffolk counties, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 · Nanjing Lukou International Airport, Jiangsu
Read record →Sourced using AI1933 · Gothenburg, Västra Götaland
Read record →Sourced using AI1998–2001 · Mombasa and the Kenyan coast
Read record →Sourced using AIFirst century CE · Roman Italy, literary context
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009 contemporary reports · Thailand; roads, worksites and accident locations
Read record →Sourced using AI2008–2011 · Copenhagen/Kastrup approach airspace
Read record →Sourced using AIOctober–November 1954 · Funchal and Madeira
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval Arabic ʿajāʾib literature, especially 13th century · Open sea in cosmographic and wonder-book narratives
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Durban, Natal
Read record →Sourced using AI1983 · Guangzhou, Guangdong
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Auckland and North Island, New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI1986 · Raleigh, North Carolina
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Kodiak, Alaska District
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