DOS-UAP-D001, Diplomatic Cable, Brazil, November 14, 1963
Official description
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.”
✦ AI summary
An unclassified U.S. Department of State incoming telegram, sent November 14, 1963 from the Embassy in Rio de Janeiro to the Secretary of State and repeated to the American Consulate in Salvador (designated Salvador 94, Rio 1054), signed by Gordon. Citing a weak overnight radiotelephone connection, the cable asks the addressee to confirm or correct the Embassy's understanding of an "unqualified negative" regarding a local newspaper report that a large metal "manned balloon" had been found near Salvador around November 8, with a dead crewman aboard wearing a uniform or spacesuit bearing strange markings, and that the impact had left a four-meter-deep crater. The cable also notes a separate report of an object sighted in the same vicinity around that date, tentatively identified as a weather-type balloon, but states that no such object was found on the ground. The message was passed to Defense and NASA the same day, and a follow-up cable is cataloged in this collection as DOS-UAP-D002.
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Source: U.S. Department of War / AARO — public domain · war.gov/ufo
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