NASC Inquiry into Bahia, Brazil Incident, November 13, 1963

A CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) transcript of a November 8, 1963 Portuguese-language Rio de Janeiro radio broadcast (Radio Tupi), reporting that a large metal sphere had fallen in Conde, Bahia, gouging a 4-meter-deep hole, with window-like openings and a human body inside dressed in heavy clothing bearing undecipherable inscriptions. The document is excerpted from the files of Edward C. Welsh, Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council (NASC), with handwritten November 13, 1963 annotations recording a NASC request that the State Department ask the US Embassy in Rio to verify the report locally.

Why this rating This file is the unverified media-broadcast origin of a claim that DOS-UAP-D002 later confirms was a fabrication; it documents the government's own act of flagging an unsourced broadcast for verification, not an observed event.

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  EOP-UAP-D001, NASC Inquiry into Bahia, Brazil Incident, November 13, 1963

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  DOS-UAP-D001, Diplomatic Cable, Brazil, November 14, 1963

  A November 14, 1963 State Department cable from the US Embassy in Rio de Janeiro to the Consulate in Salvador, seeking to confirm a poor-quality phone conversation from the previous night in which the Consulate reportedly gave an 'unqualified negative' on a local newspaper report that a large metal 'manned balloon' with a dead crewman in a uniform/spacesuit with strange markings had been found near Salvador around November 8, leaving a 10-meter-deep crater. The cable separately notes an object had been tentatively identified as a weather-type balloon, but that no such object was found on the ground.

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  A Rio de Janeiro radio broadcast reported a large metal sphere had fallen in Conde, Bahia, with a human body inside wearing clothing bearing undecipherable inscriptions.