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Read record →Sourced using AI20th-century case; exact reporting chronology requires source verification · India
Read record →Sourced using AI1970 · Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland
Read record →Sourced using AIBuilt 1755; later tradition · Williamsburg, Virginia
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s popular literature · Azores archipelago
Read record →Sourced using AI5 November 1990 · France, with reports across multiple regions
Read record →Sourced using AI26 January 1995 (reported date; verify) · New Delhi, India
Read record →Sourced using AI1940–1945 · Air route between Egypt and Iraq
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · South Wales, especially the Cwmcarn area
Read record →Sourced using AIFerdowsi’s Shahnameh, completed c. 1010; older Iranian tradition · Mount Alborz and the legendary Iranian world
Read record →Sourced using AI2003 · Marrakesh
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly eleventh century · Heian court, Japan
Read record →Sourced using AILate antique text preserved in later Ethiopic witnesses · Ethiopian Christian manuscript tradition
Read record →Sourced using AI1977–1978 · Benevides, Pará
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1916 · Benares (Varanasi)
Read record →Sourced using AI2018 · Amsterdam and North Holland
Read record →Sourced using AI1937 · Shanghai, China
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Ruhr region, North Rhine-Westphalia
Read record →Sourced using AI1943–1944 · Rosario and Paraná River corridor
Read record →Sourced using AI1870s–1890s · Lower Congo and Pool region
Read record →Sourced using AIApril 1897 · Portland, Oregon, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1989–1990, date to verify · Beauvechain air base and surrounding airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1931–1938 reported sightings · Beaufort Sea and Arctic coast of Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s · Ireland and the North Atlantic
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Managua, Nicaragua
Read record →Sourced using AI2008–2010 · Oulu, Northern Ostrobothnia
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 (exact date to verify) · Lake Michigan airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Osan Air Base, South Korea
Read record →Sourced using AIFebruary 1909 · Brandon, Manitoba
Read record →Sourced using AINovember 1896 · Sacramento and the Sacramento Valley, California, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI8 April 1665 · Stralsund, Pomerania
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Medellín, Antioquia
Read record →Sourced using AIReports from the late 1990s onward · Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AI8 January 1981 · Trans-en-Provence, Var
Read record →Sourced using AI1970–1989 temple circulation · Taiwan
Read record →Sourced using AI1977–1979 · Cholula, Puebla
Read record →Sourced using AI1973–1975 · Bulawayo, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe
Read record →Sourced using AI1993–1996 · Brno and South Moravia
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth century, especially after European colonization of the Chatham Islands · Rēkohu / Chatham Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 onward · Paraguay–Brazil border airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1947 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Read record →Sourced using AI1916 · Recife, Pernambuco
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 · Magé, Rio de Janeiro state
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 1260s CE · Iraq and the eastern Islamic world
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s tourism and media claims · Pluckley, Kent
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Ottawa, Ontario
Read record →Sourced using AI10 April 1963; investigations and public memory through 1965 · Atlantic Ocean, east of Cape Cod
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Wrocław, Poland
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