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Sourced using AI16th-century reign; traditions preserved in chronicles and oral histories · Songhai Empire, especially Gao and Timbuktu
Read record →Sourced using AI1880s–1890s · Upper and Lower Burma
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval text, repeatedly reinterpreted in 20th-century UFO writing · Paramara court tradition, Malwa
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · Haifa
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 · Las Vegas, Nevada
Read record →Sourced using AI2013 · Cardiff, Wales
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 · Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · Lifou, Loyalty Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI2007 · Baguio City, Benguet
Read record →Sourced using AI1960s · Israel and Jewish literary-religious culture
Read record →Sourced using AIJune 1946 · Stockholm area
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Maui, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Bern, Switzerland
Read record →Sourced using AI1986 · Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory
Read record →Sourced using AIprobably compiled in its extant form c. 5th century CE · Bodh Gaya or the Buddha’s enlightenment setting in South Asian tradition
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 · Yugoslav Adriatic coast
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 onward · Canadian Arctic, especially King William Island and the Northwest Passage
Read record →Sourced using AI1999 · Asheville, North Carolina
Read record →Sourced using AI2016 · Sicily, Italy
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Vancouver, British Columbia
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 · Southern Nevada, including airspace near Las Vegas
Read record →Sourced using AI1978–1981 · Valparaíso and Viña del Mar
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · San Salvador, El Salvador
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Aragarças, Goiás
Read record →Sourced using AI14th century treasure-text tradition · Tibet and Himalayan Buddhist communities
Read record →Sourced using AI1984 · Hobart, Tasmania
Read record →Sourced using AI1997–2001 · Alton and the Mississippi River valley, Illinois
Read record →Sourced using AIColonial manuscript tradition; written down in the 16th century · K’iche’ Maya highlands, especially Guatemala
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 (exact date to verify) · Geelong, Victoria
Read record →Sourced using AI1235 CE · Japan, not Europe; included only as a comparative transmission lead
Read record →Sourced using AI1999–2000 · Ostia, Rome, Italy
Read record →Sourced using AI1987–1988 · Pensacola and Gulf Breeze, Florida
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2024 · Santiago airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Dour, Hainaut
Read record →Sourced using AI1912; later twentieth-century haunting claims · Villisca, Iowa, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1817 · Gloucester, Massachusetts
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1830s text; canonized in 1880 · Kirtland, Ohio and Nauvoo, Illinois publication history
Read record →Sourced using AI1981 · Conil de la Frontera, Cádiz
Read record →Sourced using AILate sixth century; c. 593–594 · Italy and Rome
Read record →Sourced using AI1958–1960 · North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s–1960s · Reykjanes Peninsula and Keflavík
Read record →Sourced using AI1938 · Greenland and eastern Canadian Arctic
Read record →Sourced using AI2005 · Manila, Luzon
Read record →Sourced using AI1791 · Near present-day Fort Recovery, Ohio
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval Arabic popular epic; manuscript circulation before 1800 · Syria, Egypt, Anatolia and broader Arabic literary networks
Read record →Sourced using AI2019–2021 (date to verify) · Yerevan or Zvartnots approach airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI11 October 1973 · Pascagoula, Mississippi, on the Pascagoula River
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