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Sourced using AI1942 · Sydney Harbour and coastal New South Wales
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s reports · Caracas–La Guaira highway, Venezuela
Read record →Sourced using AI1930s onward; identity and first report disputed · Justice and Willow Springs, Illinois
Read record →Sourced using AI1984–1985 · El Plumerillo Airport, Mendoza
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 (exact date requires verification) · Cebu City or Metro Cebu
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s–1960s · Cyprus
Read record →Sourced using AI1982 · Pago Pago and the waters around Tutuila
Read record →Sourced using AIFortification begun 1539; modern paranormal folklore · San Juan
Read record →Sourced using AI1997 · Sydney, New South Wales
Read record →Sourced using AICompiled c. 1540s–1570s · Central Mexico; manuscripts associated with Mexico City
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Mérida, Yucatán
Read record →Sourced using AI2001 · Japan, location uncertain
Read record →Sourced using AI2021 · Kenosha–Racine area, Wisconsin
Read record →Sourced using AI1989–1990 · Belgium, especially Liège and Brussels
Read record →Sourced using AIOral and folkloric tradition; collected in written form during the Spanish and American periods · Mount Makiling, Laguna, Luzon
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Hokuriku region, Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval compilation preserving earlier annalistic material · Ireland; exact entry and locality require verification
Read record →Sourced using AIOctober–November 1954 · Florence and Tuscany
Read record →Sourced using AI2003–2005 · Birmingham Airport, England
Read record →Sourced using AI18th–19th centuries · Japanese coastal domains
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly to mid-20th century reports · Jiundu swamps and western Zambia region
Read record →Sourced using AINovember 1957 · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Read record →Sourced using AI1868 · Santiago
Read record →Sourced using AI20th-century edition of earlier sources · Ethiopia
Read record →Sourced using AI1960 · Guayama, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · Naples-Capodichino Airport, Campania
Read record →Sourced using AI2016 · Groningen, Netherlands
Read record →Sourced using AI1962 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Read record →Sourced using AI1980 · Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 2019; publicly circulated 2021 · Off Southern California, United States
Read record →Sourced using AINovember 2004 · Pacific training area west of San Diego
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly first century CE · Mythic Greece and the wider world
Read record →Sourced using AI1954–1956 · Davao
Read record →Sourced using AI1882 French publication; Demotic Egyptian tale · Memphis and Egypt in the narrative; manuscript tradition from Roman-period Egypt
Read record →Sourced using AI1926 · Central Australia
Read record →Sourced using AI1999 · Florianópolis, Santa Catarina
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 (month to verify) · Tangier
Read record →Sourced using AIApril 2020 · United States; videos recorded during earlier Navy operations
Read record →Sourced using AI1996 · Mount Shasta, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1980s · Peninsular Malaysia, especially urban and kampung communities
Read record →Sourced using AI1980 · Guatemala, location to verify
Read record →Sourced using AI1977–1981 · Colonia del Sacramento and Río de la Plata
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 (month uncertain) · San Juan, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI2006 · Harbin, Heilongjiang
Read record →Sourced using AI1900s–1940s · Lake Victoria and surrounding East African shores
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 religious practice and controversy · Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and French Polynesia
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