Department of StatePDFTier 2 · Documented firsthand reportBalloon
Diplomatic Cable, Brazil, November 14, 1963
DOS-UAP-D001 · Release 05 (8/7)
Agency
Department of State
Document type
PDF
Sighting type
Balloon
Location
Bahia, Brazil (Other)
Incident date
11/14/63
Release
Release 05 (8/7)
Evidence tier
Tier 2 · Documented firsthand report
What the document says
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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Context
This is one of 9 Department of State records in the declassified archive, and one of 5 cases describing a balloon, reported in the Other region. It was published in Release 05 (8/7).
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