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Sourced using AI1930s · Singapore and South China Sea routes
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · San Antonio, Texas, United States
Read record →Sourced using AINairobi media and social-media reports in the 2010s · Kileleshwa, Nairobi
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · Izmir, Turkey
Read record →Sourced using AIRecorded in nineteenth-century Orkney folklore collections · Orkney Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1982 · New Delhi airspace, India
Read record →Sourced using AI2000s restoration-era coverage · Cairo
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 · Jorhat, Assam
Read record →Sourced using AIEpic and Purāṇic textual traditions; layers over many centuries · South Asian Sanskrit literary tradition
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009 visitor reporting · Cape Spartel, Tangier
Read record →Sourced using AI1942 · Portland, Oregon
Read record →Sourced using AI1977–1981 reports · Auckland and the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward · Venice Lagoon, Veneto, Italy
Read record →Sourced using AI1980 · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Read record →Sourced using AI1915 · Black Sea coast and fleet operating areas
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2024 · Leh, Ladakh
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century tradition, recorded in the twentieth century · Tkhina, Abkhazia
Read record →Sourced using AIOctober 1954 · Levroux, Indre
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 731; purportedly seventh or early eighth century · Lindisfarne (Holy Island)
Read record →Sourced using AI1769–1771 · Tahiti and other Society Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016 · Ankara airspace, Turkey
Read record →Sourced using AI1997 · Illinois
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s scholarship · Lebanon, Syria and northern Israel
Read record →Sourced using AI2010s editions and comparative scholarship · North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Read record →Sourced using AIConventionally associated with the Zagwe period, mainly twelfth–thirteenth centuries CE · Lalibela, Amhara Region
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 1947 · Portland, Oregon
Read record →Sourced using AIMay–August 1883 · Sunda Strait and western Java
Read record →Sourced using AI1970 · Sfax
Read record →Sourced using AIFebruary–May 1943 · Tunisia
Read record →Sourced using AI17 November 1896 · Sacramento, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1914–1930s · London and England
Read record →Sourced using AI2019 · Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia
Read record →Sourced using AI1956, exact date uncertain · Brasília construction region, Goiás
Read record →Sourced using AI2003 · Las Vegas, Nevada
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1982–1986 · Vanuatu and adjacent airspace
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval to early modern manuscript tradition; surviving witnesses mainly later · European manuscript tradition, especially Italian, French, and English contexts
Read record →Sourced using AI1984 · Rovaniemi, Lapland
Read record →Sourced using AI1948 · Jerusalem area
Read record →Sourced using AIReported April 18–19, 1977; later Massachusetts legend · Dover, Massachusetts, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1926–1936 · New York City and other United States locations
Read record →Sourced using AI11 September 1997 · United States; radio broadcast
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 · New Zealand, exact locality to verify
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Australia and adjacent airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Paris region, France
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Cagliari and southern Sardinia, Italy
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Pretoria, Transvaal
Read record →Sourced using AI1935 · Ayabe and Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture
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