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Sourced using AI1897 · Turin
Read record →Sourced using AIAncient Chinese tradition; transmitted in pre-1800 texts; AI-recalled; source quality 5; corroboration 0 · China and wider East Asian literary traditions
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Fresno, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1978–1981 · Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois
Read record →Sourced using AILong-duration rural tradition; premodern origins claimed · Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and southern Brazil
Read record →Sourced using AIOld Babylonian composition, c. 18th century BCE; older traditions · Mesopotamia
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Halifax, Nova Scotia
Read record →Sourced using AIDecember 2024 · Morristown, New Jersey
Read record →Sourced using AIWorld War II era; contemporary local narratives · Viti Levu, Fiji
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Iceland, probably the Reykjavík area
Read record →Sourced using AI1981 · Böle, Västerbotten
Read record →Sourced using AI1962 · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Read record →Sourced using AI1935 · Tibet
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 · Santiago and Valparaíso
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Tehran area, Iran
Read record →Sourced using AI1970–1989 specific apparition tradition · Cape Town, Western Cape
Read record →Sourced using AI2009 · Detroit area, Michigan
Read record →Sourced using AI4 June 1783 · Annonay, Ardèche
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Fiji and surrounding air routes
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 1200–c. 1000 BCE · Guanghan, Sichuan
Read record →Sourced using AI1996 · Arica, Arica y Parinacota
Read record →Sourced using AI1980 · Bulgaria, airfield to be established
Read record →Sourced using AI1949 · Abidjan, French West Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI2017 · Arnhem Land, Northern Territory
Read record →Sourced using AI2009 (route and date uncertain) · Northern Chile air route
Read record →Sourced using AIFebruary 2023 · Kotzebue, Alaska, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI2018 · Billund Airport, Denmark
Read record →Sourced using AI2008 · North Atlantic airspace west of Ireland
Read record →Sourced using AI2nd century BCE–early centuries CE · Maval region, Maharashtra, India
Read record →Sourced using AI2003 · Hanoi
Read record →Sourced using AI2016 · St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s travel writing and oral-history circulation · Rub al-Khali, Saudi Arabia, Oman and United Arab Emirates
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval and early modern manuscript transmission; dating varies by recension · Ethiopian Christian manuscript culture
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Caracas
Read record →Sourced using AI2010–2014 · Akwa Ibom State
Read record →Sourced using AI1911–1913; later recollections · Cape Evans, Ross Island, Antarctica
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Carman, Manitoba
Read record →Sourced using AIMiddle Kingdom Egypt, commonly dated c. 2000–1700 BCE · Ancient Egyptian literary setting; island in the sea
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2021 · Popocatépetl region, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · San Pedro Sula, Cortés
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 (exact date requires verification) · Louisville, Kentucky
Read record →Sourced using AI2008 · RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1989–1990 · Wavre, Walloon Brabant
Read record →Sourced using AI1970 · Regensburg, Bavaria
Read record →Sourced using AI1947 · Johannesburg, Transvaal
Read record →Sourced using AI1896–1897 · Matabeleland, especially the Matobo Hills
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · Montego Bay, Jamaica
Read record →Sourced using AI1864 · Abomey and the Dahomey kingdom
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