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Sourced using AI2016 · Okinawa Prefecture
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · Ukrainian SSR, locations vary
Read record →Sourced using AI1580s–1590s; biography partly reconstructed from hostile and partisan sources · Bohemia, especially Prague and Trebon
Read record →Sourced using AIApril 1897 · Mount Vernon, Illinois
Read record →Sourced using AI1916–1921 · Philippines
Read record →Sourced using AI1977–1981 · Evansville, Indiana
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Kuwait City or Kuwait airspace
Read record →Sourced using AIFounded 1926 · Berlin, Germany
Read record →Sourced using AI1982 · Little Rock, Arkansas
Read record →Sourced using AI1983 · Dalian, Liaoning
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Fangxian County, Hubei, China
Read record →Sourced using AI1830s–1890s · Moray Firth, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Port Vila, New Hebrides
Read record →Sourced using AI1871–1873 · Smith Sound, Greenland
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 · Kyiv
Read record →Sourced using AI1946 · Jutland and Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI13th century; widely copied later · Persian and Arabic manuscript worlds
Read record →Sourced using AI1960 · Durazno, Uruguay
Read record →Sourced using AI1817 · Isle of Man, Irish Sea
Read record →Sourced using AI1890s · Sofia
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · New Orleans, Louisiana
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009; especially annual October reports · Mekong River near Nong Khai and Phon Phisai, Thailand; opposite Vientiane, Laos
Read record →Sourced using AI2007–2011 · Northern Utah
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s · French Pyrenees
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s investigations of earlier reports · Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · Calgary, Alberta
Read record →Sourced using AI1942–1945 · Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea and Arctic convoy routes
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 museum-era haunting accounts · Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s–1960s · Mandalay Region
Read record →Sourced using AI1970–1989 Iranian literary and folkloric interpretation · Iran; especially the Shahnameh tradition
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s folklore publications · Aotearoa New Zealand, especially forested and mountainous districts
Read record →Sourced using AI1986–1987 · Northern Uganda
Read record →Sourced using AI1984 · Leiria, Portugal
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2024 · Düsseldorf Airport and Rhine-Ruhr airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1997 discovery; 2002 publication · Middle Awash, Afar Region
Read record →Sourced using AI1958–1961 · King George Island, South Shetland Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI2008 · Cancún, Quintana Roo
Read record →Sourced using AI1918 · Santiago
Read record →Sourced using AI1951 · Bulgaria
Read record →Sourced using AI1 August 1974 · Near Langenburg, Saskatchewan
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Japan, location unclear
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 500 BCE–500 CE · Nazca and Palpa, southern Peru
Read record →Sourced using AI1941–1944 · Aden approaches and Red Sea air routes
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Airspace near the Hawaiian Islands, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Madras coast, Tamil Nadu
Read record →Sourced using AI1910s–1930s · New Zealand coastal settlements and shipping routes
Read record →Sourced using AI11 September 1968 · Near Nice, Mediterranean Sea
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 6th–7th century CE · Neungsan-ri, near Buyeo
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