DOS-UAP-D001, Diplomatic Cable, Brazil, November 14, 1963
- Date
- Nov. 14, 1963
- Location
- Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Agency
- Department of State
- Release
- Release 05 (Aug. 7, 2026)
- Type
- document
Summary
A State Department cable from the U.S. Embassy in Rio asks the consulate in Salvador to confirm its "unqualified negative" on a local newspaper story claiming a large metal manned balloon, with a dead crewman in a uniform or spacesuit, had been found near Salvador around Nov. 8. The cable notes an object was sighted aloft around that date and tentatively identified as a weather-type balloon, but that no such object had been found on the ground.
Note
The cable is about debunking a press report, not confirming a crash.