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Sourced using AI2012–2016, exact date uncertain · São Paulo / Guarulhos, Brazil
Read record →Sourced using AI1993 · San Diego County and offshore military airspace, California
Read record →Sourced using AISixteenth century · German-speaking Europe
Read record →Sourced using AI1967–1968 · Quito, Ecuador
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 · Visayas and Luzon
Read record →Sourced using AI1953 · Durban, South Africa
Read record →Sourced using AICollections formed from Hellenistic through late antique periods · Egypt, Anatolia, Syria, and the wider Mediterranean
Read record →Sourced using AI2008 · Nashville, Tennessee
Read record →Sourced using AI2010s–2020s · Near Tozeur, Tunisia
Read record →Sourced using AITraditional lore; written documentation from the nineteenth century · Orkney Islands, especially northern islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1863 battle; apparition traditions documented and popularized from the nineteenth century onward · Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Multiple locations in Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI7 November 1975 · Loring Air Force Base, near Limestone, Maine
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s · Windhoek, South West Africa (now Namibia)
Read record →Sourced using AIAlleged 1196; recorded in William of Newburgh’s Historia rerum Anglicarum · Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Geneva area
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2023, date uncertain · La Aurora International Airport, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Read record →Sourced using AI1945 · Georgetown and British Guiana airspace
Read record →Sourced using AILate nineteenth century · Australia, New Zealand, and international Theosophical publishing networks
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · Rabat
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Istres, France
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Warsaw, Russian Empire
Read record →Sourced using AINovember 2004 · Off the coast of Southern California, near the USS Nimitz training area
Read record →Sourced using AI1984–1986 · Manchester, New Hampshire
Read record →Sourced using AI1977 · Sweden; military airfield requires verification
Read record →Sourced using AISummer 1952 · Finland, locations to verify
Read record →Sourced using AI1920s–1940s · Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI2018 · Algiers and northern Algeria
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Near Pajas Blancas, Montevideo
Read record →Sourced using AI20th century reports with claimed older local tradition · Congo Basin, especially Likouala and Kasai regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1983 · Barrow, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1968–1970 · Thule Air Base, Greenland
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · Rochester, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · New Delhi, India
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s ethnographic documentation · Araucanía and southern Chile
Read record →Sourced using AI1987–1991 · Atlanta metropolitan area, Georgia
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Winnipeg, Manitoba
Read record →Sourced using AI1942–1944 · Bombay, Bombay Presidency
Read record →Sourced using AI1988 · Rosario and Santa Fe Province
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval-to-early-modern oral epic; written and printed witnesses before 1800 · Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and the Maghreb
Read record →Sourced using AIPunic and Roman periods, approximately 4th century BCE–2nd century CE · Carthage, modern Tunisia
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1953; reception through 1960s · Haiti; United States
Read record →Sourced using AIAncient Indian art and Sanskrit tradition; continuing temple iconography · India and parts of Southeast Asia
Read record →Sourced using AI1934–1936 · Livingstone
Read record →Sourced using AIApril 1897 · Yates Center and Le Roy, Kansas
Read record →Sourced using AIFebruary 24–25, 1942 · Los Angeles, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1880s–1890s · Congo basin
Read record →Sourced using AI1609 · Andean Peru
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