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Sourced using AI1944–1945 · China, especially Fourteenth Air Force operational areas
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1989 · United Kingdom; origins and chronology disputed
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Irkutsk, Russian Empire
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 historical studies · North Island, New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI1944–1945 · Punta Arenas and Strait of Magellan region
Read record →Sourced using AIField investigations especially from the 1960s through the 1980s · Multiple regions of India, including northern and southern states
Read record →Sourced using AI1969 · Guatemala City, Guatemala
Read record →Sourced using AI1962–1966 · Palmyra Atoll and central Pacific ferry routes
Read record →Sourced using AI12th century CE, compiling earlier material · Antioch and northern Mesopotamia textual horizon
Read record →Sourced using AIRecorded in the Kojiki (712) and Nihon Shoki (720) · Ancient Japan, including eastern Japan and Ise
Read record →Sourced using AI1984 · Guwahati, Assam
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly Buddhist text; incorporated into the Pāli canon in antiquity · Isigili mountain near present-day Rajgir, Bihar
Read record →Sourced using AI1984 · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Basel
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Various locations, including Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 reprints and translations · Iceland
Read record →Sourced using AI1950 · Australia and Tasman-Pacific routes
Read record →Sourced using AI1980s · Montevideo area
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward scholarship · Indian Buddhist textual tradition
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 731 CE · Northumbria
Read record →Sourced using AI1951 · Various locations in Spain
Read record →Sourced using AI1972 · Kyiv
Read record →Sourced using AILate twentieth-century local reports; exact dates uncertain · Dumas Beach, Surat, Gujarat
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009 myth and folklore publications · China
Read record →Sourced using AI2024 (exact date requires verification) · Manila Bay, Metro Manila
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · Porto, Portugal
Read record →Sourced using AIModern transregional tradition with older aquatic-spirit precedents; major visual spread from the 19th century onward · West and Central Africa, including Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, and the Congo region
Read record →Sourced using AIMiddle English romance, probably late 13th or early 14th century · England; the otherworld is entered from Winchester through a wilderness boundary
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Piarco, Trinidad
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2024 · Cape Canaveral and the Florida Space Coast
Read record →Sourced using AI1937 · Naden Harbour, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Buenos Aires region
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province
Read record →Sourced using AI1982 · Nanjing, Jiangsu
Read record →Sourced using AI1933 · China; locations to be identified in contemporary reports
Read record →Sourced using AINovember 1957 · Gulfport and Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Read record →Sourced using AI2008–2009 · Democratic Republic of the Congo
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · El Paso, Texas, and nearby New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AIApril 1897 · Des Moines, Iowa
Read record →Sourced using AI1992 · Cuban airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 · China, location to verify
Read record →Sourced using AI1908–1917 editions and translations · Cairo and Ethiopian manuscript collections
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Berkeley, California, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1999 · Chattanooga, Tennessee
Read record →Sourced using AI1980s · Zimbabwe
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · Charleston, West Virginia
Read record →Sourced using AIManuscripts mainly 8th–10th centuries · Dunhuang, Gansu
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Israel, locations requiring verification
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