EOP-UAP-D001, NASC Inquiry into Bahia, Brazil Incident, November 13, 1963
This file, released by the U.S. Department of War as part of a UAP records collection, is a Central Intelligence Agency Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) wire report dated November 9, 1963. The report transcribes a Portuguese-language broadcast aired at 2330 on 8 November 1963 by Rio de Janeiro's Radio Tupi, describing reports from the municipality of Conde, in Bahia, Brazil, that a large metal sphere fell in the center of the city, gouging a hole four meters deep. The broadcast claimed the sphere had window-shaped openings covered with thick glass and contained a human body dressed in heavy clothing bearing indecipherable inscriptions, and that local authorities had been informed. According to the source page, the document is excerpted from the files of Edward C. Welsh, Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council (NASC), a cabinet-level advisory body within the Executive Office of the President that coordinated U.S. space policy from 1958 to 1973. Handwritten annotations dated November 13, 1963 record a NASC request to a State Department official to have the U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro verify the reporting locally. This inter-agency request preceded a subsequent Embassy diplomatic cable cataloged in the collection as DOS-UAP-D001.
Description
A CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) wire report dated November 9, 1963, monitoring a Rio de Janeiro Radio Tupi Portuguese-language broadcast about an alleged crashed 'large metal sphere' containing a deceased occupant in Conde, Bahia, Brazil, with handwritten NASC–State Department annotations dated November 13, 1963.
Claims
A large metal sphere fell in the center of Conde, Bahia, Brazil, gouging a hole four meters deep.
30%The sphere had window-shaped openings covered with thick glass and contained a human body in heavy clothing bearing indecipherable inscriptions.
25%NASC requested that the State Department have the U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro verify the local reporting.
80%NASC requested that the U.S. Department of State query the U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro to verify the reporting.
80%
Events
Nov 8, 1963
FBIS wire report issued
CIA FBIS issued a wire report relaying the Radio Tupi broadcast.
Nov 7, 1963
Radio Tupi broadcast on the Conde sphere
Rio de Janeiro Radio Tupi aired a Portuguese-language report at 2330 about a metal sphere falling in Conde, Bahia.
Nov 12, 1963
NASC–State Department verification request
Handwritten annotations record NASC asking State to have the Rio embassy verify the reporting.
Nov 7, 1963
Radio Tupi broadcast of alleged sphere crash
Radio Tupi in Rio de Janeiro broadcast at 2330 reporting a large metal sphere fell in Conde, Bahia, containing a deceased occupant.
Nov 12, 1963
NASC inter-agency inquiry
Handwritten annotations record a NASC request to a State Department official to have the U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro verify the reporting.
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Extracted text (OCR)
o FBIS 03 RIO DE JANEIRO RADIO TUPI IN PORTUGUESE 2330 8 NOV 63 W (TEXT) REPORTS FROM THE MUNICIPALITY OF CONDE, IN Bala, SAY a LARGE METAL SPHERE FELL IN THE CENTER OF THE CITY, GOUGING A HOLE FOUR METERS DEEP. THE MYSTERIOUS SPHERE HAS WINDOW SHAPED OPENINGS GOUERED WITH THICK GLASS. INSIDE IS a HUMAN BODY DReaeep IN HEAVY CLOTHING BEARING INSCRIPTIONS WHICH CANNOT BE DECIPHERED. THE POPULATION OF CONDE IS INTRIGUED, AND THE AUTHORITI SS HAVE BEEN INFORNED. 9 NOV 111A RwS/aY
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