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This U.S. Department of State file contains two memoranda dated July 28, 1952. A cover note tells Mr. Armstrong that Paul Nitze had asked for the Air Force view on flying saucers. The attached memorandum records General Samford's answer that the subject remained "a complete enigma" and that "credible observers are reporting the incredible." Samford linked the rise in reports to better radar and pilot reporting and to publicity. He also indicated that the saucers being man-made was a remote possibility.
This July 18, 1963 memorandum from Maxwell W. Hunter II of the National Aeronautics and Space Council staff, Executive Office of the President, went to Robert F. Packard of the State Department's Office of International Scientific Affairs. Titled "Thoughts on the Space Alien Race Question," it considers policy if an alien intelligence were discovered. It notes that flying saucer advocates exist but sides with scientists that contact is unlikely. It concludes that any alien race's level of space flight should be determined quickly, since that would drastically affect policy.
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.
This is an unclassified airgram that the U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro sent to the Department of State on November 20, 1963. It gives a negative report on an unidentified flying object said to have come down near Conde, Bahia. The Consul in Salvador, Harold Midkiff, reported that the story looked fabricated in Rio and that nobody in the area had seen any such object. Local newspaper clippings added that the Ministry of Aeronautics denied that any strange object had appeared.
This U.S. Department of State cable was sent by the American Embassy in Port Moresby on January 28, 1985. It reports an informal inquiry from Papua New Guinea's National Intelligence Organization about high-altitude, high-speed aircraft and other unidentified aerial phenomena seen over PNG on the evening of January 24. The reports included an Air Niugini pilot's radar contact near Angoram and sightings of contrails. The embassy said it knew of no B-52 or other U.S. aircraft in PNG airspace that day and asked for confirmation.
This U.S. State Department cable, sent from the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe on January 31, 1994, reports a UFO sighting by Tajik Air chief pilot Ed Rhodes and two American colleagues. On January 27, while flying a Boeing 747SP at 41,000 feet over Kazakhstan, the crew watched a very bright light maneuver for about forty minutes. It left contrails that Rhodes estimated at 100,000 feet. The crew rejected a meteor explanation, and the embassy said it had no opinion.
This U.S. Embassy Moscow cable to the State Department is dated October 30, 2001 and signed by Ambassador Vershbow. It reports Russian Foreign Ministry denials that Russian planes flew over or bombed the Kodori Gorge in Georgia on October 28 and 29. A ministry official said reports of planes might as well have been about "UFOs." The cable also covers equipment withdrawals from the Gudauta base. The embassy's comment calls the UFO suggestion a bold lie meant to avoid an awkward admission.
This U.S. Department of State cable, sent by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico on September 16, 2023, is a weekly political blotter covering September 11 to 15. Most of it covers Mexican politics: Marcelo Ebrard's challenge to MORENA's candidate selection, INE commission appointments, Mexico City security leadership changes and killings of prosecutors in Guerrero. Its final item reports the September 12 congressional UAP hearing. Journalist Jaime Maussan presented two alleged alien corpses there, and former Navy pilot Ryan Graves called the display an "unsubstantiated stunt."
This U.S. Department of State cable from the American Embassy in Ashgabat, dated November 12, 2004, describes a November 5 meeting between embassy officials and the Union of Ufologists of Turkmenabat. The group started out studying life on other planets and became a trusted NGO partner. It helps businesses and NGOs register, has distributed humanitarian aid and is seeking USAID grants, including one for a newsletter. Its president said there had been no confirmed UFO sightings in Turkmenistan.