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Read record →Sourced using AI2006 · Iqaluit, Nunavut
Read record →Sourced using AI2019 · United Kingdom
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 2019 · Off San Diego, California, including waters near USS Omaha
Read record →Sourced using AI2017 · Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Read record →Sourced using AI1949 · Haiti
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Italy
Read record →Sourced using AI1952, date to verify · Oslofjord, southeastern Norway
Read record →Sourced using AI1860s–1890s · KwaZulu-Natal rivers and waterfalls
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Vysoké Mýto, East Bohemia
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval Syriac chronicle tradition; individual notices require dating · Upper Mesopotamia, around Ra’s al-ʿAyn/Ayn al-Warda
Read record →Sourced using AI2016 · Northeastern Korean Peninsula
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 · Oran vicinity
Read record →Sourced using AILong-running modern tradition; reports especially publicized from the 19th century and late 20th century · Lake Van, eastern Anatolia
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · St. Louis area, Missouri
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · Newcastle and Hunter region, New South Wales
Read record →Sourced using AIReports from the nineteenth century and especially the twentieth century · White River near Newport, Arkansas
Read record →Sourced using AI1983 · Baghdad and Iraqi airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · Phoenix, Arizona, and surrounding airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1949 · Northern and central Chile
Read record →Sourced using AIJanuary–February 2008 · Stephenville and Dublin, Texas
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 · Caracas and coastal approach routes
Read record →Sourced using AIDocumented from the 16th century; earlier roots · Kongo region, especially present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola
Read record →Sourced using AI30–31 March 1990 · Eastern Belgium, possibly observed from Aachen and the German border
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Phoenix metropolitan area, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2021 · Peru, locations vary
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Maui, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s reassessment · Cottingley, West Yorkshire
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Ottawa Valley, Ontario and Quebec
Read record →Sourced using AI1970 · Malta and central Mediterranean airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1914 · Guatemala City, Guatemala
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s–1960s reprint tradition · Mediterranean and North African literary context
Read record →Sourced using AIAround 213 BCE in Livy’s narrative · Arpi, Apulia
Read record →Sourced using AI1980s · Tanana Valley, Alaska, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 institutional period; later reports · Ararat, Victoria
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Palmyra, Homs Governorate
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · Nantes airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1947 · Des Moines, Iowa
Read record →Sourced using AI17 October 1952 · Gaillac, Tarn
Read record →Sourced using AI2003 · Chongqing
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Wisconsin
Read record →Sourced using AI1991 · Poland, locations vary
Read record →Sourced using AI1880s–1890s · Nancy, France
Read record →Sourced using AIClaimed pre-Columbian; documented provenance contested in the 20th century · Lubaantun claim; British Museum comparison
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s documentation · Kuwait and the northern Persian Gulf
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century psychiatric institution history and later folklore · Vienna, Austria
Read record →Sourced using AI1953–1954 · Haiphong and Gulf of Tonkin approaches
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