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Sourced using AIMalay text composed or transmitted in the medieval-to-early modern transition; dating debated · Pasai, northern Sumatra
Read record →Sourced using AI1882 · East Asia; observations reported in Japan and China
Read record →Sourced using AIFebruary–March 2023 · Swedish airspace, locations to verify
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 onward · Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Read record →Sourced using AITwentieth-century ethnographies of an older tradition · Nyanza region
Read record →Sourced using AI2018 (date to verify) · Volgograd area
Read record →Sourced using AILate 11th to early 12th century · Japan, including provincial and courtly settings
Read record →Sourced using AI1883 · Dorrigo and northern New South Wales forests
Read record →Sourced using AI2019–2020 · Auckland west coast, New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 · Peru, locations varied
Read record →Sourced using AI2002–2006, exact date to verify · Inter-island Hawaii airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Stavropol region
Read record →Sourced using AI1876–1877 · Marpingen, Saarland, Germany
Read record →Sourced using AI2007–2011, exact date to verify · Norfolk or Virginia Beach, Virginia
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s · Capilla del Monte, Córdoba
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Oscoda, Michigan
Read record →Sourced using AI1982 · Tunisia, especially Tunis, exact site to verify
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s reports · Lake Coatepeque, Santa Ana
Read record →Sourced using AI2017 onward reporting · Off the coast of Southern California
Read record →Sourced using AI1970 · Multiple locations in Italy
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval Japanese military tale, compiled in the 14th–15th centuries · Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI9 November 2018 · Irish west coast and Atlantic approaches
Read record →Sourced using AI2002 · São José dos Campos, São Paulo
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Port of Spain, Trinidad
Read record →Sourced using AI1987–1991, exact date to verify · Zurich Airport, Kloten
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 · Blantyre, Malawi
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 scholarly and spiritualist retellings; original events 1848 · Hydesville, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · Almaty and Almaty Region
Read record →Sourced using AI1988 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Read record →Sourced using AI26 June 1962 · Boianai, Milne Bay District
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s · Central Mountain Range, Taiwan
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly fifth century CE · Carthage and an unnamed African town, Roman North Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI1978–1979 (date to verify) · Marseille/Marignane, France
Read record →Sourced using AI2002–2006 · County Donegal, Ireland
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Chicago, Illinois
Read record →Sourced using AI1910s · Alaska Territory
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · Lima
Read record →Sourced using AI2010s–2020s research · Valcamonica, Lombardy
Read record →Sourced using AIApril 2013 · Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AIMid-century visitor and local reports, exact dates uncertain · Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India
Read record →Sourced using AI1892 · Liège, Wallonia
Read record →Sourced using AI1972 · Poland, locations to be established
Read record →Sourced using AI1988 · Eastern Sierra, California/Nevada
Read record →Sourced using AI2003–2006 · Atlanta, Georgia
Read record →Sourced using AI2017 · Ottawa, Ontario
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Bellville, Cape Town
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