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Sourced using AI1970s–1980s battlefield-tour reports · Somme, Hauts-de-France, France
Read record →Sourced using AI2017 · Papua New Guinea highlands and forest regions
Read record →Sourced using AI20th-century and later theatre lore · Buenos Aires
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 · Concepción, Biobío
Read record →Sourced using AI1952–1953 · Palomar Gardens, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 (exact date to verify) · Bandaranaike International Airport, Katunayake, Sri Lanka
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · West Germany, locations vary
Read record →Sourced using AI2005 · Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI2000–2009 · Boulia and outback Queensland
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · Iran; reported in several urban and military contexts
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009 hotel accounts · Cape Town, Western Cape
Read record →Sourced using AI1999 · Basel region
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Ankara
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Beirut area, Lebanon
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Tehran, Iran
Read record →Sourced using AIReports during the station’s final operating decades · North Head, Sydney, New South Wales
Read record →Sourced using AI1926 · Svalbard and the Norwegian Arctic
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · Jerusalem
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 (exact date requires verification) · Japan (exact location requires verification)
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota
Read record →Sourced using AIPrison operating during 1947–1969; later haunting associations · Montevideo
Read record →Sourced using AI1915 · Chota Nagpur
Read record →Sourced using AI1950 · Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1987 · New York City, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI1855 publication; traditions collected in the nineteenth century · New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 scholarship and cultural publications · Canadian Arctic, Greenland, and Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1966 · Colorado Springs, Colorado
Read record →Sourced using AIRoman imperial period, with earlier and later phases · Baalbek, Lebanon
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 593–594 · Rome and Italy in the narrative world
Read record →Sourced using AIflourished c. 1220–1290 CE; excavations from 1930s · Limpopo–Shashe confluence
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward South African media reports; individual dates require checking · Mthatha, Eastern Cape
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 · Tokyo and other Japanese cities
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval Hindu textual layers; dates and recensions disputed · North India and broader Hindu ritual traditions
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century ethnographic reports · Central and western India
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Santa Fe, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1940–1946 · Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s · Near Albuquerque, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AIRecorded in modern ethnography and local tradition · Howick Falls, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI1997 (exact date requires verification) · San Juan, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 onward · Salt Lake City, Utah
Read record →Sourced using AIQur’anic passage traditionally seventh century CE; later hadith and ascension narratives expand it · Mecca, Jerusalem, and the heavenly spheres in Islamic tradition
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 16, 1945 and later recollections · Central New Mexico near the Trinity test site
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Maine
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Fort Smith, Arkansas
Read record →Sourced using AI1977 · Nag Hammadi, Egypt; translated and studied internationally
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1965-era print documentation target · Osu Castle, Accra
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