EOP-UAP-D001

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

Preview description (machine-generated): A Central Intelligence Agency Foreign Broadcast Information Service wire report, with handwritten notes.

Official description

This document is a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) wire report dated November 9, 1963, tracking a local Portuguese-language radio broadcast from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, regarding an alleged crash of a “large metal sphere” containing a deceased occupant in Conde, Bahia, Brazil. This FBIS report is excerpted from the files of Edward C. Welsh, Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council (NASC). NASC was a cabinet-level advisory body within the Executive Office of the President responsible for coordinating U.S. space policy from 1958 to 1973. Handwritten annotations dated November 13, 1963, document a communication between officials at NASC and the U.S. Department of State. The note records a NASC request to a State Department official to query the U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro for local verification of the reporting. This inter-agency request precedes a subsequent diplomatic cable sent by the Embassy the following day, cataloged in this collection under the title “DOS-UAP-D001.”

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AI summary

This document details a CIA report tracking a Portuguese-language radio broadcast about an alleged crash of a large metal sphere in Bahia, Brazil on November 13, 1963, which purportedly contained a deceased occupant. It includes correspondence between the National Aeronautics and Space Council and the U.S. Department of State seeking verification of the incident. The file is significant as it highlights U.S. government interest and actions regarding unidentified aerial phenomena during the early 1960s.