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Sourced using AI1957 · Philippines; location uncertain
Read record →Sourced using AIPre-Islamic Iranian roots proposed; clearly developed in Persian literature from the medieval period onward · Iran and Persianate Central and South Asia
Read record →Sourced using AIJanuary 1979 · South Island air corridor near Kaikoura
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · Kyiv and surrounding Ukrainian SSR airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico / El Paso, Texas, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1960s · Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 · New York, New York, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 · Wellington and Wellington Harbour
Read record →Sourced using AIRecorded in modern South African folklore collections · Richtersveld and Augrabies-associated regions, South Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · Cergy-Pontoise, Île-de-France
Read record →Sourced using AI1969 · Windsor Locks, Connecticut
Read record →Sourced using AI1947 (month uncertain) · Manila area, Luzon
Read record →Sourced using AI1992 · Åland Islands, especially Mariehamn
Read record →Sourced using AISeventeenth-century post-execution tradition · Hampton Court Palace, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Read record →Sourced using AIOctober 1952 · Gaillac, Tarn
Read record →Sourced using AI2018 · Anchorage, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1962 · Riga and Latvian SSR
Read record →Sourced using AILong-duration Algonquian tradition; written ethnographic records from the 17th century onward · Great Lakes and subarctic regions of North America
Read record →Sourced using AI2009 · Kolkata, West Bengal
Read record →Sourced using AILate twentieth-century reports, including 1970s–1980s local folklore · Old Māngere Bridge, Auckland
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Frankfurt am Main
Read record →Sourced using AI2010–2019 · Kuwait City and Kuwait airspace
Read record →Sourced using AIMay 19, 1986 · Multiple locations across Brazil, including São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and São José dos Campos
Read record →Sourced using AI2008–2009 · Newark, New Jersey, and New York metropolitan airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI2008 · Nelson, South Island
Read record →Sourced using AIDecember 1933–January 1934 · Near Loch Ness, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2021 · San Salvador, El Salvador
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly–August 1944 · Guam
Read record →Sourced using AI1960 · Eastern Mongolia, possible Zamyn-Üüd area
Read record →Sourced using AIAlleged sinking 13 February 1748; recurring reports especially in 19th–20th centuries · Goodwin Sands, English Channel
Read record →Sourced using AI18 August 1783 · Britain and surrounding regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1839–1843 · Antarctica, Ross Sea, Victoria Land
Read record →Sourced using AI1918 · Sydney, New South Wales
Read record →Sourced using AIMiddle Irish narrative, approximately eighth–tenth century; surviving manuscripts later · Imagined Atlantic island-world
Read record →Sourced using AI2007–2011 (date uncertain) · Beirut, Lebanon
Read record →Sourced using AILate twentieth-century reports; period attribution uncertain · Istanbul
Read record →Sourced using AI1969 · Astrakhan, RSFSR
Read record →Sourced using AI2006 · Chiang Mai
Read record →Sourced using AI2005 · Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Read record →Sourced using AI1882 French publication; Demotic Egyptian tale · Egypt, especially Memphis; Demotic manuscript tradition
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward · Al Madam, Sharjah Emirate
Read record →Sourced using AItwelfth–fifteenth centuries CE · Northern and Western Europe
Read record →Sourced using AI1944 · Carpathian approaches, western Ukraine
Read record →Sourced using AI2018 · Vienna International Airport, Schwechat
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 editions · Arabic literary tradition; commonly printed in Egyptian and Syrian Nights collections
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Western Pacific air routes near Guam or Micronesia
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