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Sourced using AI1957 · Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
Read record →Sourced using AI1777 · Tongatapu and the Tongan archipelago
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly twentieth-century hospital period, 1900–1946 · Hobart, Tasmania
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Stuttgart Airport and surrounding airspace
Read record →Sourced using AILong-duration tradition; documented ethnographically mainly in the 20th century · Kalahari regions of Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 hospital-operating context; later folklore · Beechworth, Victoria
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Nyköping, Södermanland
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward · Camden, New Jersey, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1987–1988 · Gulf Breeze, Florida
Read record →Sourced using AI2000 · Dutch North Sea coast
Read record →Sourced using AI1947 · Kodiak, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1878 fire; later site history · Montreal, Quebec
Read record →Sourced using AIQur'anic text, seventh century CE; later exegetical and folkloric expansion · Arabia and the wider Islamic textual world
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 · Hartford area, Connecticut
Read record →Sourced using AI1948–1950 · White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Christchurch, Canterbury
Read record →Sourced using AITomb discovered 1907; outside the requested nineteenth-century date range but rooted in earlier antiquarian discourse · Beni Hasan, Egypt; later Manchester
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 (date to verify) · Moscow region
Read record →Sourced using AI1960 · Honiara, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1918 event; 2010 onward reinterpretations · Atlantic Ocean, route from Barbados toward Baltimore
Read record →Sourced using AI2010–2013 · United States and Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI1970 · El Paso, Texas
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 405 CE · Cyrene and Constantinople
Read record →Sourced using AI1969 · Spain, including Madrid and coastal airspace
Read record →Sourced using AIFebruary 10, 2023 · Near Deadhorse, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AINovember 2004 · Off Southern California
Read record →Sourced using AILate antique and medieval traditions documented in texts before 1800 · Jewish, Christian and Islamic Middle Eastern textual cultures
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR
Read record →Sourced using AI1868 · Goalpara, Assam
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Reno, Nevada
Read record →Sourced using AI1972 · Mexico; described as Yaqui borderlands
Read record →Sourced using AI1955 · Cape Town, South Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI19 May 1986 · Campinas region, São Paulo
Read record →Sourced using AI1948 · Near Leningrad, RSFSR
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Adelaide and South Australia
Read record →Sourced using AI1947 · Honolulu, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Michigan
Read record →Sourced using AIReported anomalous activity especially from the 1970s onward · Mapimí Biosphere Reserve, Durango/Coahuila, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI4 August 1990 · Near Calvine, Perthshire, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AI1986 · Concepción, Biobío
Read record →Sourced using AI1995–2009 · Quincy, Massachusetts, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 retellings of the 1845 expedition · Canadian Arctic, especially King William Island and the Northwest Passage
Read record →Sourced using AINovember 20, 1952 · Desert near Desert Center, California, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI2009–2010 · Indian Ocean route west of Australia
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 (exact date to verify) · Cebu City, Philippines
Read record →Sourced using AI1845–present; sightings and traditions later · Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 2008 · Montauk, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · South Korea, locations vary
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