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Read record →Sourced using AI2010s visitor and ranger-tour reports · Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, California
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Read record →Sourced using AI2011 · Hammerfest, Finnmark, Norway
Read record →Sourced using AILate 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE · Roman Italy and wider Roman world
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 · Naples, Italy
Read record →Sourced using AIMarch 5, 2004 · Airspace near Campeche, Gulf of Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1992–1996 · Yakutsk and surrounding airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1983–1984 · Taconic State Parkway, Dutchess and Putnam Counties, New York
Read record →Sourced using AImedieval to nineteenth-century folklore transmission · Scandinavia and Germanic-speaking Europe
Read record →Sourced using AI1989–1991 · Saratov and Saratov Oblast, Russian SFSR
Read record →Sourced using AI2008 · Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Read record →Sourced using AI1949 (month uncertain) · Saigon area, Cochinchina
Read record →Sourced using AI1876 · Cook Islands and neighboring islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s · Japan, especially Kōyasan and Shugendō temples
Read record →Sourced using AI1952–1956 · Adelaide, South Australia
Read record →Sourced using AILate fourth or early fifth century CE · Egyptian monastic settlements
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Zürich and Zürich Airport area
Read record →Sourced using AITraveling 1325–1354; text compiled 14th century · Red Sea, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean routes
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · Tehran
Read record →Sourced using AI1950 · Varese, Lombardy
Read record →Sourced using AI2007–2011, exact date uncertain · Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport, El Salvador
Read record →Sourced using AI2007–2011 · Tromsø and northern Norwegian airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1917 · Guatemala City, Guatemala
Read record →Sourced using AIninth century CE · Basra and Abbasid Iraq
Read record →Sourced using AI1992 · Istanbul, Turkey
Read record →Sourced using AIMarch or April 1990; publicized 1990 · Petit-Rechain, Verviers area, Liège Province
Read record →Sourced using AI1884 publication; traditions collected in the nineteenth century · Samoa
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1941 · Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, United States
Read record →Sourced using AIProbably 4th–5th century; medieval reception · Central India and the imagined route to the Himalaya
Read record →Sourced using AI2018 · Lubbock, Texas
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016 · Central California coast near Vandenberg
Read record →Sourced using AI1950 · Bogotá and central Colombia
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire, England
Read record →Sourced using AI2013 · Near Reykjavík, Iceland
Read record →Sourced using AI1948–1969 reprints and later field use · Chota Nagpur plateau
Read record →Sourced using AI13 October 1917 · Cova da Iria, Fátima
Read record →Sourced using AI1930s · San Juan and approaches to Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1944–1945, dates to verify · Munich and southern German airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 ethnographic and historical documentation · Tanna, Tafea Province, Vanuatu
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · Chicago, Illinois
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 · Hungary, airfield location to be established
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Findhorn, Moray, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AI1854–1862 travels; published 1869 · Indonesia and the Malay Archipelago
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 · Charlotte, North Carolina
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône
Read record →Sourced using AI1977 · Mexico City
Read record →Sourced using AIDocumented in Basque folklore collections from the 19th century; older oral tradition claimed · Basque Country, especially Pyrenean and western Basque regions
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