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Sourced using AI2017 onward interviews about 2004 event · Off the coast of Southern California
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 · Gran Canaria / Las Palmas airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 prison testimony and human-rights reporting · Sednaya, Rif Dimashq
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2021 period · North Pacific and Japanese airspace
Read record →Sourced using AIReported by Plutarch, probably 1st–2nd century CE, about 329 BCE · Near the Jaxartes/Syr Darya, Central Asia in Alexander’s campaign narrative
Read record →Sourced using AI14th century; later heritage traditions · Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania
Read record →Sourced using AI1987–1991 · Fort Walton Beach and Eglin, Florida
Read record →Sourced using AIBefore 1900 · Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. territories
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · South Wales
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 reception · Rennes-le-Château, Aude, France
Read record →Sourced using AI1933 · Los Angeles and Southern California
Read record →Sourced using AI2008 · Nadi–Auckland air route
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Hawaii and central Pacific
Read record →Sourced using AI1898–1899 · Ayabe and Mount Takakuma, Kyoto Prefecture
Read record →Sourced using AI2000 · Algiers
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Santiago and central Chile
Read record →Sourced using AI1920s–1940s · Thanh Hóa, northern Vietnam
Read record →Sourced using AI1993 · Manchester, New Hampshire
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward tourism and social-media reports · Victoria Falls, Zambezi River
Read record →Sourced using AISouthern Song period, commonly dated to the late twelfth or early thirteenth century · Off Yangjiang, Guangdong
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · Phoenix metropolitan area, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AILong-duration Malagasy oral tradition; recorded by explorers and ethnographers from the nineteenth century onward · Madagascar, especially eastern and central forest regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1926 · Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009 local folklore · Kampala
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 · Johannesburg, Gauteng
Read record →Sourced using AIOccupation approximately 1000 BCE–1400 CE, with major development in the first millennium CE · Cartago Province, central Costa Rica
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · Woomera, South Australia
Read record →Sourced using AI1785 · Norwich, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1948 (month uncertain) · Batavia/Jakarta area, Java
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · Salto, Salto Department
Read record →Sourced using AIMarch 1644 · Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Read record →Sourced using AI1668 · Istanbul and Ottoman southeastern Europe
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Maldonado and Punta del Este
Read record →Sourced using AI1972 · South Korea, location unclear
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Pensacola, Florida
Read record →Sourced using AI1949 · Norway, especially northern districts
Read record →Sourced using AI1988–1991 · Lake Amatitlán, Guatemala
Read record →Sourced using AI24 April 1964 · Socorro, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1999 · Egypt, exact region uncertain
Read record →Sourced using AI1997 · Lake Van, eastern Turkey
Read record →Sourced using AI19 May 2016 · Near Istanbul, reportedly over the Marmara region
Read record →Sourced using AIRoman annalistic reports; dates and source layers vary · Roman Italy
Read record →Sourced using AIlate third or early second century BCE comedy · Athens in the play’s setting; Roman theatrical context
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · Hamburg and northern Germany
Read record →Sourced using AImajor florescence c. 1100–1500 CE · Kilwa archipelago, off southern Tanzania
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s reports · Loch Morar, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AIContemporary reports, tourism, and investigations, 2010 onward; fort history early modern · Bhangarh, Alwar district, Rajasthan, India
Read record →Sourced using AILate antiquity to medieval and early modern revival · Various libraries, monasteries, and courts in Europe
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