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This U.S. Department of State incoming telegram, dated November 14, 1963, was sent by the American Embassy in Rio de Janeiro to the consulate in Salvador and passed to Defense and NASA. It asks the consulate to confirm that it denies a local newspaper report. The report said a large metal manned balloon was found near Salvador around November 8 with a dead crewman in a strangely marked uniform or spacesuit, and that it left a crater. The cable notes an object sighted nearby had been tentatively identified as a weather balloon, but that no object was found on the ground.
From the source: Release of 2026-08-07 Incident: 11/14/63, Bahia, Brazil. This document is a U.S. Department of State diplomatic cable from the U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to the Office of the Secretary of State in Washington, D.C., on November 14, 1963. This cable documents an effort by the Embassy to verify that the Department had assessed certain content published in a local newspaper as inauthentic, following a discussion on a poor-quality telephone connection the previous night. To ensure both offices were referencing the same reporting, the cable cites descriptive language paraphrased from the press, namely a “large metal manned balloon” and a “dead crewman aboard wearing [a] uniform or spacesuit with strange markings.” The cable concludes with the embassy’s understanding that an object assessed to be a weather balloon had been reported in the vicinity, but that no such object had been found to have crashed. A follow-on correspondence regarding the alleged incident is included in this collection under the title “DOS-UAP-D002.”
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