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Sourced using AI1950s · Kasai and northern Zambia/Angola borderlands
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Read record →Sourced using AI1997 · Japan, location uncertain
Read record →Sourced using AI1970–1989 regional folklore and press documentation · Visayas and parts of Mindanao
Read record →Sourced using AI2019 · Northern Ontario, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 scholarly and manuscript documentation · North Africa and the Middle East
Read record →Sourced using AI1988 · Jakarta vicinity
Read record →Sourced using AIBefore 1900 · China, Mongolia, Korea, or Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Singapore
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · Ponce, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Santiago–Buenos Aires air corridor
Read record →Sourced using AI1948 · Lima airport area
Read record →Sourced using AI1960 · Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa (now Maputo, Mozambique)
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 onward · Sweden, locations not consistently public
Read record →Sourced using AI1740–1744 · Pacific Ocean and Cape Horn routes
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward pilgrimage reports; shrine established earlier · Harissa, Keserwan District
Read record →Sourced using AI2005 · Roseau, Dominica
Read record →Sourced using AI1914 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Read record →Sourced using AIJune 16, 1892 · Brazilian observing stations
Read record →Sourced using AIOriginal reports 1972–1974; revisited in post-2010 books and documentaries · Aircraft associated with Eastern Air Lines and later aircraft interiors, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1987–1991 · Taos, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1978–1981 · Villa General Belgrano, Córdoba
Read record →Sourced using AITraditional history; European contact before 1800 · Rotuma
Read record →Sourced using AIJune 29, 1988 and aftermath · Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina
Read record →Sourced using AILate eighteenth century; published 1791 · Qing China
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009 travel and oral-history reports · Al Hamra, Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate
Read record →Sourced using AIManuscript circulated in the twentieth century; claimed ancient origins · India
Read record →Sourced using AIHeian figure; legends expanded through medieval and Edo texts; AI-recalled; source quality 5; corroboration 0 · Kyoto and wider Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1949 · Hyderabad, Hyderabad State
Read record →Sourced using AIc.1538–1541 · Michoacán
Read record →Sourced using AI2002 · Harare, Mashonaland
Read record →Sourced using AI1942–1945 · Torres Strait, New Guinea, and northern Australian routes
Read record →Sourced using AILate twentieth-century Quito folklore · Quito
Read record →Sourced using AI2021 · Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Read record →Sourced using AI24 October 1873 · Bonham, Texas
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Papua New Guinea, reported in several localities
Read record →Sourced using AIBhagavata Purana generally dated c. 8th–10th century CE, with textual debate · Yamuna River, Vrindavan / Vraja
Read record →Sourced using AIArabic composition or circulation by the eighth–tenth centuries; Latin translation 1264 · Islamic West and Mediterranean translation networks
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Woomera, South Australia
Read record →Sourced using AI1914–1918 · Union of South Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI77 CE · Ethiopia or the interior of Africa in Pliny’s account
Read record →Sourced using AI2000 · Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia
Read record →Sourced using AI1970 · Barcelona–El Prat
Read record →Sourced using AIBefore 1900 · China, Mongolia, Korea, or Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1949 · Tours area, Indre-et-Loire
Read record →Sourced using AI1999 · Strasbourg / Alsace
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Basel
Read record →Sourced using AI1940 · Chiapas, Mexico
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