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Read record →Sourced using AIPublicized in 1965; parchment dated to medieval period but ink disputed · Associated with Yale University; alleged North Atlantic mapping context
Read record →Sourced using AIColonial-era and modern reports; late 20th-century field investigations · Kerinci Seblat and neighboring forests, Sumatra
Read record →Sourced using AI1920s · Iraq and northern Persian Gulf
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · Salvador, Bahia
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · Bailleul, Nord
Read record →Sourced using AI1993 · Valencia, Spain
Read record →Sourced using AI1948 (date uncertain) · Isfahan
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2024 · Los Angeles, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1949–1951 · Palomar Gardens, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1924 · At sea near the Panama Canal; photographs later circulated from the United States
Read record →Sourced using AI14 December 1937 · Naden Harbour, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia
Read record →Sourced using AI1944–1945 · Strasbourg and northeastern France
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Devon, England
Read record →Sourced using AIRoman-period Egypt · Egypt; Berlin
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Benton Harbor, Michigan
Read record →Sourced using AI1999 · North Sea airspace off Norway
Read record →Sourced using AI1930s · Southern Rhodesia
Read record →Sourced using AINovember 1896 · San Francisco Bay, California, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI2002 · Rostov-on-Don
Read record →Sourced using AI28 November 1980 · Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England
Read record →Sourced using AIJanuary 2015; public attention 2017–2021 · Off the Atlantic coast, commonly associated with the Carolinas
Read record →Sourced using AI1987–1991 · Ponce, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1993–1996 · Eumundi and the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Read record →Sourced using AI712 CE · Japan; court text associated with Yamato tradition
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009 Chinese folklore and popular-culture studies · China, with regional textual and oral traditions
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s · Yukon Territory, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI1955 · Karachi, Sindh
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Perth, Western Australia
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Karachi, Sind
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 1952 · San Diego County, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Kyoto
Read record →Sourced using AI1976 · Indianapolis area, Indiana
Read record →Sourced using AI1635–1649 · Huron-Wendat country, Great Lakes
Read record →Sourced using AI1925 · Ommen
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 · Denver metropolitan area, Colorado
Read record →Sourced using AI1562 tradition · Chiquinquirá, Boyacá
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 · Pensacola, Florida
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Conil de la Frontera and Cádiz province
Read record →Sourced using AI1984–1989 · Tokyo and Yamanashi, Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 ethnographic literature · Hela, Papua New Guinea
Read record →Sourced using AI1984 · Algeria, location uncertain
Read record →Sourced using AI1988 · Port Vila, Efate, Vanuatu
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Long Beach, California, United States
Read record →Sourced using AIOctober 1894 · Lyon, Rhône
Read record →Sourced using AI1992 residual reports · Belgium
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota
Read record →Sourced using AI1968–1969 · Cairo and surrounding airspace
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