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Sourced using AI1965 · Trinidad, locations to be determined
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s · Mongolia
Read record →Sourced using AI5th century BCE account of earlier traditions · Corinth and the Greek world
Read record →Sourced using AIPublished 1558; disputed earlier voyages · North Atlantic near Iceland and Greenland
Read record →Sourced using AI1930s alleged encounter; later cryptozoological circulation · Kasai region, formerly Belgian Congo
Read record →Sourced using AI19 May 1986 · São Paulo–Rio de Janeiro air corridor
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 · Kansas City, Missouri
Read record →Sourced using AILate antique and medieval hagiographic development · Eastern Mediterranean, Byzantine, Latin, and later European Christian contexts
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2024 · Hudson River corridor, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · San Juan, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AILong-duration North Malabar ritual tradition; textual and historical dating disputed · Kannur and Kasaragod districts, Kerala
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · Ponce, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016 · Air routes between Tahiti and the United States
Read record →Sourced using AI2017 · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI2018 · Australia; exact location to verify
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · Redcar or the Cleveland coast, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s · Omo Kibish, southwestern Ethiopia
Read record →Sourced using AI1947 · La Paz and surrounding highlands
Read record →Sourced using AI1219–1223 · Heisterbach Abbey and wider Rhineland
Read record →Sourced using AI1977 · Multiple locations in China
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Anchorage, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1978–1980 · RAF St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Worcester, Massachusetts
Read record →Sourced using AI1987 · Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
Read record →Sourced using AI1944 · London, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1954–1969 · Australia and the southwest Pacific
Read record →Sourced using AI1983 · Manchester Airport and surrounding airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1944–1945 · Gulf of Maine and Maine coast, Maine
Read record →Sourced using AI1820; accounts published 1821 and afterward · South Pacific Ocean
Read record →Sourced using AIJanamsakhi traditions compiled mainly in the 17th century · Punjab and the wider itinerary attributed to Guru Nanak
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Porto, Portugal
Read record →Sourced using AI1977–1978 · Santo Antônio do Tauá, Pará
Read record →Sourced using AI1846 · Multiple locations in France
Read record →Sourced using AI1946–1947 archival aftermath · Sweden, especially central and northern regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1619 · Florence
Read record →Sourced using AI2013 · Barcelona, Catalonia
Read record →Sourced using AI1977 · Several locations in Finland
Read record →Sourced using AIApril 1990 · Brussels
Read record →Sourced using AI1987 · Gulf Breeze, Florida
Read record →Sourced using AI2002–2006 · Funen, Denmark
Read record →Sourced using AI1952–1956 · Woomera, South Australia
Read record →Sourced using AIDecember 2023–January 2024 · Near Langley Air Force Base, Hampton, Virginia
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · Tandil, Buenos Aires Province
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward Argentine documentaries and visitor reports · Miramar, Córdoba
Read record →Sourced using AI1980s prison testimony and later memory work · Near Palmyra, Homs Governorate
Read record →Sourced using AI1993 · Oregon Coast, Oregon
Read record →Sourced using AI1898 · Benares (Varanasi), India
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