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Sourced using AI2008–2010 · Vienna International Airport
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Madeira, Portugal
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 (month and date to verify) · Chicago metropolitan area, Illinois
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 · Iran, exact sites to verify
Read record →Sourced using AI1993 · Punta Arenas, Magallanes
Read record →Sourced using AI1981 · Canary Islands, Spain
Read record →Sourced using AILate antique period, approximately 3rd–4th centuries CE · Egypt; now associated with Heidelberg papyrus collections
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 1220–1290 CE · Limpopo River valley
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly–August 1947 · Texas Panhandle, especially Amarillo
Read record →Sourced using AI2008–2011 · Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Read record →Sourced using AITraditional; collected in modern Argentine and Bolivian folklore · Andean foothills of Argentina and Bolivia
Read record →Sourced using AIBroadly first millennium BCE to early first millennium CE; chronology revised repeatedly · Central Nigeria, especially Kaduna and Plateau regions
Read record →Sourced using AIJapanese folklore documented in medieval and early modern texts; regional forms continue · Rivers, ponds and waterways across Japan, with strong associations in some regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1920s–1930s · Reno, Nevada
Read record →Sourced using AI2003 · Geneva Airport, Geneva
Read record →Sourced using AI2010–2015 legal aftermath · Saudi Arabia and Lebanon
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 · El Paso, Texas
Read record →Sourced using AI1790 · Norfolk Island, southwest Pacific
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Phoenix, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s interpretation · Nag Hammadi, Upper Egypt
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 · Falmouth Bay, Cornwall
Read record →Sourced using AIEleventh century · Persia and Central Asia; written across Avicenna’s scholarly career
Read record →Sourced using AI1970–1989 · Western Desert near the Egypt–Sudan region
Read record →Sourced using AI1946–1947 investigations continuing into the period · Sweden, including northern and central airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1998–1999 · Hannut, Liège Province
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 editions · Kashmir-origin literary tradition; published across India
Read record →Sourced using AIAutumn 1965 · Several French departments
Read record →Sourced using AI19th century–present; older Nguni traditions · Southern Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Madison, Wisconsin
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Francistown
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 documentation period · Morocco, especially Essaouira, Marrakech and urban shrine networks
Read record →Sourced using AI20th century; individual dates require case selection · Thailand
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2018 · Medellín, Antioquia
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016, exact date to verify · Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport, Guangdong
Read record →Sourced using AI1555 · Livonia and northern Europe as described by Olaus Magnus
Read record →Sourced using AI776 CE · Saxony, during Charlemagne’s campaigns
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Guadalajara and Jalisco, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval and early modern pilgrimage traditions · Sri Lanka, especially sites linked to the Rāmāyaṇa
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s scholarship on earlier trials · Basque Country
Read record →Sourced using AI2000 · Incheon
Read record →Sourced using AI1993–2009 · Highland Towers, Taman Hillview, Hulu Kelang, Selangor
Read record →Sourced using AIVision associated with the early 7th century; recorded by Bede in the 8th century · East Anglia and Ireland; Fursey’s monastery at Burgh Castle is traditionally associated with the account
Read record →Sourced using AI1982 · Colombo
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · L’Anse-au-Griffon, Quebec
Read record →Sourced using AI2016 onward online circulation · Antarctica, commonly mislocated in online imagery
Read record →Sourced using AI1972–1976 · Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Read record →Sourced using AI2008–2010 (date to verify) · Schiphol and Dutch controlled airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Santa Fe, New Mexico
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