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Sourced using AI1940s; later retrospective haunting claims · Notting Hill, London
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 2500–1500 BCE · Kerma, Upper Nubia
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016; exact event dates require confirmation · Cleveland, Ohio
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 spring · Atlanta, Georgia
Read record →Sourced using AILong-duration tradition; documented by European observers from the 17th century and ethnographers later · Former Dahomey, chiefly southern Benin and neighboring Togo
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 · California and New York, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 incident; released 2024 · Middle East, exact location withheld
Read record →Sourced using AI2001 · Oregon
Read record →Sourced using AI1955 · Various locations in Sweden
Read record →Sourced using AIṚgvedic period; precise date uncertain · Vedic poetic tradition
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · San Javier, Murcia, Spain
Read record →Sourced using AI1978–1981 · Lincoln, Nebraska
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 396 CE · Egypt, reported through Alexandria
Read record →Sourced using AI6 April 1966 · Westall, Melbourne, Victoria
Read record →Sourced using AIJanuary–February 1994 · Trumbull County, Ohio
Read record →Sourced using AI19 May 1986 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Read record →Sourced using AI1953–1955 · Manila region
Read record →Sourced using AI1918 · Karachi, Sindh
Read record →Sourced using AI1850s–1860s · United States and Britain, including New York
Read record →Sourced using AIAlleged 1943 event; story publicized 1950s · Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, allegedly
Read record →Sourced using AI1590–1592 · North Berwick and Edinburgh, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AI1596; widely reprinted thereafter · China, with wider East Asian circulation
Read record →Sourced using AI1930 · Northern Siberia and Arctic coast
Read record →Sourced using AI1944 · Black Sea and Crimea
Read record →Sourced using AI2003 · Hilo, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · New Orleans metropolitan area, Louisiana
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 · Arab and Persian literary cultures
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 · Hamburg
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Jacksonville, Florida
Read record →Sourced using AIReported by Pliny the Younger, c. 100 CE · Athens, Greece
Read record →Sourced using AI1928–1929 · South Atlantic, east of South America
Read record →Sourced using AI2023–2024, date uncertain · Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Naples, Campania
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly historic period; especially 2nd century BCE–2nd century CE material · Mathura and other North Indian sacred sites
Read record →Sourced using AI1997 · Nellis range and southern Nevada
Read record →Sourced using AI1945 · Caracas airport area
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2024 FAA-recorded report · Anchorage-area airspace, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · New Delhi, Delhi
Read record →Sourced using AI1944–1945 · European theater, with reports associated with the eastern Alpine and Italian approaches
Read record →Sourced using AI1962–1966 · Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AIMeiji period, especially 1870s–1890s · Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · Porto Alegre area, Rio Grande do Sul
Read record →Sourced using AI1987 · Peoria, Illinois
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Memphis, Tennessee
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 · Vermont airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1950 · Cuba
Read record →Sourced using AILegend circulated and publicized during the twentieth century; relevant 1970–1989 sources need confirmation · Shaniwar Wada, Pune, Maharashtra
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · South Korea, locality to be determined
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