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Sourced using AI1972 · Cerro de los Burros, near Piriápolis, Maldonado Department
Read record →Sourced using AIMay–June 1986 · Brazilian air-defense control network
Read record →Sourced using AI2018 · Akureyri, Iceland
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Windom, Minnesota
Read record →Sourced using AITraditional tale; postwar film and theatre revivals, 1947–1969 · Yotsuya, Tokyo, and fictionalized Edo-period settings
Read record →Sourced using AI2007 · Geneva and Geneva Canton
Read record →Sourced using AI1962 · Tehran area
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 (date to verify) · Birmingham Airport, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1980–1989 · Republic of the Congo, Cameroon and neighboring Congo Basin regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1910 · Tōno, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1966 · Brittany, France
Read record →Sourced using AI1984 · Delhi airport area, India
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Tampa Bay, Florida
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s · Thailand, especially central Thailand
Read record →Sourced using AI1936 · Spain, military fronts and rear areas
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Poland, locations vary
Read record →Sourced using AIJune 1952 · Leeuwarden Air Base and northern Netherlands
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval to early modern transmission; modern studies 2010 onward · Japan
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth century · Sumatra, especially northern and western forest regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s investigations and tourism · Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · West Germany
Read record →Sourced using AI1944–1945 · Belgium, particularly areas used by Allied aircraft
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly modern Japanese tradition and later regional collections · Japanese coastal waters
Read record →Sourced using AISeventeenth-century castle; modern hotel ghost tradition · Ballygally, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Read record →Sourced using AI10 June 1886 and immediate aftermath · Tarawera and Te Wairoa, Bay of Plenty
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Kimberley, Northern Cape
Read record →Sourced using AI2021 · Near Popocatépetl, Puebla
Read record →Sourced using AI1914–1921 serial publication; book edition 1948 · Pondicherry, French India
Read record →Sourced using AI1870 · Zanzibar
Read record →Sourced using AI2001 · Loch Ness, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AI1815 CE · Sumbawa, Indonesia
Read record →Sourced using AI2007 · India
Read record →Sourced using AI2007–2011 (year uncertain) · Lusaka, Zambia
Read record →Sourced using AI1956 · Eastern and southeastern Europe
Read record →Sourced using AIReign and European documentation: 1624–1663 · Ndongo and Matamba
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Sakhalin Island, Sea of Okhotsk
Read record →Sourced using AI1910 · San José and other Costa Rican locations
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Kandy, Sri Lanka
Read record →Sourced using AI1953 · Arequipa, Arequipa
Read record →Sourced using AIMahavamsa compiled c. 5th–6th century CE; earlier Buddhist traditions · Sri Lanka and northern Indian Buddhist sacred geography
Read record →Sourced using AI24 May 1952 · Near Jal, New Mexico, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI2011 onward · Ishinomaki and other Tōhoku coastal communities, Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Mongolia, location unspecified
Read record →Sourced using AI2005 · Salzburg Airport, Salzburg
Read record →Sourced using AI1970–1989 oral and battlefield-tour tradition · Isandlwana, KwaZulu-Natal
Read record →Sourced using AIAugust 1962 · Duluth, Minnesota
Read record →Sourced using AI1945 · Belgium
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