Other Flying · Indonesia · 1534

IND-1534ID case-bd84c7951dFallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

Creature: Other Flying
When: Jan 1534to the month
Where: Indonesiafallback location
Reports: 13 documents1 independent

The account

Witness reports seeing a serpent fly from an immense tree at the height of fifty or sixty feet above the ground and alight upon another tree forty or fifty fathoms away without wings.

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Details

Creature: Other Flying
Where: Indonesia
mapped to country level · from the country named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the country named in the report (exact place not found).
When: Jan 1534
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (13 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 30, 2026
Case id: case-bd84c7951d

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Source trail (1)

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Image 1 of Morning star (Limerick, Me.), May 12, 1841
Newspaper · 1841-05-12
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