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Sourced using AIReported by Plutarch, probably 1st–2nd century CE, about 490 BCE · Marathon, Attica
Read record →Sourced using AI1956 · Near McMurdo Sound or Ross Sea
Read record →Sourced using AI1977–1978 · São Sebastião da Boa Vista, Pará
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Lagos, Nigeria
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 1947 · Pacific Northwest air route, reportedly near Idaho or Oregon
Read record →Sourced using AITwentieth-century ethnographic and theological writing; older oral tradition · Southeastern Nigeria
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Rarotonga and surrounding South Pacific airspace
Read record →Sourced using AIAugust 1566 · Lucerne
Read record →Sourced using AILate Neolithic, often dated c. 5260 BCE; interpretation disputed · Dispilio, Kastoria, Greece
Read record →Sourced using AI1991–2009 · Hauslabjoch, Ötztal Alps
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · Harare controlled airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Milan
Read record →Sourced using AI1943–1944 · Camp Edwards, Massachusetts
Read record →Sourced using AI1960 · Argentina, reported on domestic routes
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Albany, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais
Read record →Sourced using AI1938 · Tunguska region, Siberia
Read record →Sourced using AI2010s–2020s · Waikato and King Country, North Island
Read record →Sourced using AI1930 · France, especially eastern and southern regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1993 · Okinawa, Japan
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century reports; disputed identification · Lada Bay, Antarctic Peninsula
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Boonah, Queensland
Read record →Sourced using AIFifth century BCE literary account · Herodotus's description of Ethiopia, probably referring broadly to regions south of Egypt
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1951 · Wellington, New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI1988 · Denmark, multiple localities
Read record →Sourced using AI11th century manuscript tradition; earlier Latin materials · Anglo-Saxon England and imagined eastern lands
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · Honduras
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Lajas
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Rapa Nui / Easter Island
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Kyiv region, Ukraine
Read record →Sourced using AI2002 · Hamburg
Read record →Sourced using AI1982–1983 · Hårsfjärden, Stockholm archipelago
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Moscow, near Ostankino
Read record →Sourced using AI1960 · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 · Da Nang, Vietnam
Read record →Sourced using AI3–4 June 1942 · Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1791 · Great Lakes and Canadian interior
Read record →Sourced using AI2002–2004 · Campinas, São Paulo
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Buffalo, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI2003 · Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 · Fort-de-France, Martinique
Read record →Sourced using AIEarlier alleged events; connection developed later than 1969 · Montauk, Long Island, New York, and naval waters
Read record →Sourced using AI1948–1963 popular and ethnographic publications · Hopi pueblos, Arizona, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1914–1916 · Veracruz and Gulf coast, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Multiple localities, France
Read record →Sourced using AI1983 · Western Iranian airspace
Read record →Sourced using AIVision traditionally dated to childhood, c. 1100; text revised in the 12th century · Settefrati and Monte Cassino
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