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A November 14, 1963 U.S. Department of State cable from Embassy Rio asked Washington to confirm that a Salvador, Brazil newspaper report about a crashed metal manned balloon and dead crewman was false.
DOS-UAP-D001, Diplomatic Cable, Brazil, November 14, 1963
A November 14, 1963 U.S. Department of State cable from Embassy Rio asked Washington to confirm that a Salvador, Brazil newspaper report about a crashed metal manned balloon and dead crewman was false.
The cable records Embassy Rio's attempt to confirm a prior telephone understanding about a local newspaper report from Bahia. The report claimed a large metal manned balloon had been found near Salvador around November 8, 1963, with a dead crewman in a uniform or spacesuit and a 100-meter-deep crater from impact. The embassy understood that an object had been sighted near the area and tentatively identified as a weather-type balloon, but that no such object had been found on the ground.
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e ACTION COPY :>l - . PERMANENT RECORD COPY INCOMINGT Ii~ Department of State 5 9 UNCLASSIFIED Action SCI Info ' .... G ESA l29SUA075 ARA Rq ·•RIJEKC IO 0£ RU£SUA 2~+ 14/ l 740Z p ZN~ U SIA R 141522Z N SC Fit AMEMBASSY mIQDLJANEIR,tY 5 ( INR TO ~UEHC/SECSTATE VASHDC ZEN/Af!fCONSUL SALVADOR ' · · CIA STATE GRNC • N SA BT • '! NSF ,. U~CLAS ACTION SALVADOR 94 INFO D£Pf ~R RIO FOURTEENTH . RMR DE 0 A~TM£NT PASS DEFENSE AND NASA ~ FROO SCIATT SIMOf:JPIETRI • , . SINCl R~OIOTELE_PHONE CONNECTION LAST NIOKI AS AK, pt AS£ a>~- OR CORRECT Y UNDERSTANOINO OF YOUR UNQUALIFIED I (/) ~ -~GATIVf; ON LOCAL NEWSPAPER REPORT TO EFFECT THAT LARGE METAL -u MANNED B~LLOON ffAD·BEEN FOUND VICINITY SALVADOR APPROXIMATELY NOVEMBER 8, DEAD CREWMAN ABOARD WEARING UNIFORM OR SPACESUIT _. VITH STRANGE MARKINGS, THAT ,otm-METER•DEAP CRATER FORMED lPON f;. PACT. . I\) CFN 9 1054 I j 0-J CD t PAGE T O RU£SUA 264 ::0 )> J r UNDERSTAND FURTHER THAT AH OBJECT ffAD BEEN SIOKl'ED At.,o,r N IN TK~'r VICINITY AROUND THAT DATE, THAT SAID OBJECT HAD BEEN T£NTATIVELY IDENTIFIED .AS WEATHER-TYPE BALLOON, BUJ' THAT NO REPEAT NO SUCH OBJECT HAD B£EN FOUND AGROUND. ( AIR AD SCIENCE ATTACHES APPREC IATE COOPERATION. GORDON Br r S()TE: PASSED DEFENSE ANQ NASA AT 2 :20 PK 11/14/63 . . . INlERNATIOM ,L S~IENTIFIC AFFAIRS 0 963 i 1. V l PM A MS 910111211 Ir ,314 ,51 6 I 7, 1 1 1 ~ • ' • This copy must be returned to RM/ R central files with notation of actio taken• ' DECLASSIFIED NND 939551