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Sourced using AI1900–1939 Arabic editions and sermons · Egypt, Syria, and North Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI1970–1989 folklore, media and alleged sighting context · The Philippines, especially Visayas and Luzon
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 815 CE · Lyon
Read record →Sourced using AIPortuguese reports from the 16th–17th centuries · Great Zimbabwe and the Zambezi–Zimbabwe plateau
Read record →Sourced using AI1978–1981 reports · West Coast, South Island, New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI2024, reviewing 2004 events · United States; underlying event in Pacific Ocean
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Imperial Russia
Read record →Sourced using AI1951 · Korean peninsula, exact location to verify
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Villa Reynolds, San Luis Province
Read record →Sourced using AI1938 · Chongqing, China
Read record →Sourced using AI1987–1991 · Piarco, Trinidad
Read record →Sourced using AI1971 · Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s · Southeastern and central Europe
Read record →Sourced using AI1997 · Hessdalen valley, Sør-Trøndelag
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s–1960s · Ancient Near East and Mediterranean comparative scholarship
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval and early modern Arabic literary tradition before 1800 · Arabic literary culture; especially Middle Eastern manuscript traditions
Read record →Sourced using AI1821–1822 · River Nile east of Shendi
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 English edition; earlier versions circulated in the 1960s · North and South polar regions in the narrative
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1956 · McMurdo Sound region
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 scholarship on nineteenth-century origins · North Island, New Zealand, especially Poverty Bay and Urewera
Read record →Sourced using AI2024 · Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province
Read record →Sourced using AI1977 · Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec
Read record →Sourced using AIDecember 1989 · Brockport, Monroe County, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · San Salvador
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s · Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, Australia
Read record →Sourced using AI1860s–1870s · Various South Island localities, especially Canterbury and Otago
Read record →Sourced using AIPublished 1639; describing early seventeenth-century missions · Paraguay and the Paraná–Uruguay region
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Mansfield, Ohio
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 1590s; AI-recalled; source quality 5; corroboration 0 · Mughal court, Fatehpur Sikri and Agra
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Mexico, route unspecified
Read record →Sourced using AI2006 · Newcastle Airport, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Edmonton, Alberta
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Halifax, Nova Scotia
Read record →Sourced using AI1980 · Davao, Philippines
Read record →Sourced using AI1952–1955 · United States; cases drawn from U.S. reports
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 onward · Sedona, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AI1939 publication; older oral and ritual tradition · Northern Zambia
Read record →Sourced using AI2002 · Phoenix, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AI1986 · Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1951 · Australia; route and airport to be established
Read record →Sourced using AIPublished 2003; approximately 160,000 years ago · Middle Awash, Afar, Ethiopia
Read record →Sourced using AI2008 · Asunción, Paraguay
Read record →Sourced using AI1962 · Taiwan
Read record →Sourced using AI1947 · Minneapolis, Minnesota
Read record →Sourced using AI1652 tradition; later repetition reported in 1652–1653 · Guanare, Portuguesa
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Massachusetts
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Irkutsk region, Russia
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