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Sourced using AISumerian and Akkadian versions, second and first millennia BCE · Mesopotamia; mythic underworld
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · São Paulo airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 · Hessdalen Valley, Trøndelag
Read record →Sourced using AIUsually dated broadly between the 8th and 12th centuries CE; exact date and sectarian context are disputed · Kashmir and wider South Asia
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Kashmir
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Multiple Canadian locations, especially Atlantic Canada and the Prairies
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 printed editions and translations · India
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea coast
Read record →Sourced using AI2013 · Halifax, Nova Scotia
Read record →Sourced using AI1830 · Fayette, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI1960 · Tripoli
Read record →Sourced using AI1933 · Magenta, near Milan, Lombardy
Read record →Sourced using AI1955 · Karachi
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Nanaimo, British Columbia
Read record →Sourced using AI4 December 1965 · Low Earth orbit during Gemini 7
Read record →Sourced using AI20th century reports; older local tradition claimed · Papua New Guinea, especially the western or highland regions in cryptozoological literature
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Cape Town and the Western Cape
Read record →Sourced using AI2008, exact date uncertain · Toncontín International Airport, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Genoa / Sestri
Read record →Sourced using AI1963–1969 · New York City and Long Island, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI1988 · Algiers
Read record →Sourced using AI1969 · São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016; exact dates require confirmation · Fort Wayne, Indiana
Read record →Sourced using AI1854 onward · Arctic waters; desk later in Washington, D.C.
Read record →Sourced using AI18th–19th centuries · Japan, locations varying by document
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Manila
Read record →Sourced using AI1951 · RAF Marham, Norfolk, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1986 · Sucre, Chuquisaca
Read record →Sourced using AI1874 opening · Athens, Ohio
Read record →Sourced using AILong-duration Indigenous tradition; documented in colonial and modern ethnography · Caribbean coast of Nicaragua and Honduras
Read record →Sourced using AI1949–1952 · Heroldsbach, Bavaria
Read record →Sourced using AI13th century; died 1273 · Córdoba and later Sunni readership
Read record →Sourced using AI1977 critical publication · Qumran, West Bank
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 1200–1700 CE, with earlier settlement evidence · Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia
Read record →Sourced using AI2014–2016 · Near Lihue and the Kauai–Oahu air corridor, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI1926 · Mount Vernon, Illinois, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Johannesburg, South Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Kingston, Jamaica
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Shashamane, Ethiopia, and Rastafari communities in Ethiopia and the wider African diaspora
Read record →Sourced using AI2018–2021 · Atlantic waters off Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Norwich, Norfolk, England
Read record →Sourced using AI9 November 1979 · Dechmont Woods, Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · Maui, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Rome, Lazio
Read record →Sourced using AI1922–1927 interpretation · Hitchcock County, Nebraska
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · Adelaide and the Adelaide Hills, South Australia
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