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Sourced using AINovel attributed to Wu Cheng’en, 16th century; earlier religious and oral materials · China; pilgrimage route from China toward India
Read record →Sourced using AI1951 · Tasman Sea air routes
Read record →Sourced using AI1960 · Sea of Japan air route, Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Zimbabwe, reported in connection with the Ruwa episode
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Mannheim, Baden
Read record →Sourced using AI1944–1945 · Western front, including France and Belgium
Read record →Sourced using AI2009 · Puebla, Puebla
Read record →Sourced using AILate 20th century–present · Nigeria, especially boarding schools
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016 · Hudson Valley, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 · Coastal or offshore airspace near Chile
Read record →Sourced using AI1943–1945 · Oak Ridge and Knoxville, Tennessee
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 · Baku and Caspian Sea airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1925 · Chota Nagpur
Read record →Sourced using AI1928–1931 · Zhangqiu, Shandong
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · Lourenço Marques (now Maputo)
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Czechoslovakia
Read record →Sourced using AI1955 · Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 · Fátima and Leiria
Read record →Sourced using AI1921 · Northern approaches to Mount Everest, Tibet
Read record →Sourced using AI1999 · Nashville, Tennessee
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Multiple locations in France
Read record →Sourced using AI1970 · Rotorua, North Island
Read record →Sourced using AI2008 (approximate) · Guayaquil, Guayas
Read record →Sourced using AI1997–2001 · Caracas and Distrito Capital
Read record →Sourced using AI1969 · Belgium
Read record →Sourced using AIQuarantine station 1830–1984; reports mainly later twentieth century onward · North Head, Sydney, New South Wales
Read record →Sourced using AI2005 (date to verify) · Montevideo and Río de la Plata coast, Uruguay
Read record →Sourced using AIApril 1897 · Iowa City and other Iowa locations
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2024 · Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota
Read record →Sourced using AI1974–1976 · Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AIlate 6th century · Gaul, including Tours and regional shrines
Read record →Sourced using AI1987–1991 · Montgomery, Alabama
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century Scottish collections; Andrew Lang 1890 version · Scotland; unspecified northern or fairyland setting
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · Basel area
Read record →Sourced using AIAugust 1927 · Pacific Ocean and Hawaii approaches
Read record →Sourced using AI1970–1989 anthropological reassessments · Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
Read record →Sourced using AI2002–2006 · Cancún, Quintana Roo
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Huntington, West Virginia
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Read record →Sourced using AI1942–1945 · Douglas, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · Toledo, Ohio
Read record →Sourced using AI1969 · London, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1966 · Alexandria or coastal airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward · San Sebastián de Garabandal, Cantabria, Spain
Read record →Sourced using AI1910 · São Paulo, São Paulo
Read record →Sourced using AI1800 · Egypt
Read record →Sourced using AI1988 · Northern India, route unspecified
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s celebrity-hotel folklore · Marrakech
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