EOP-UAP-D001, NASC Inquiry into Bahia, Brazil Incident, November 13, 1963

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.”

권위 NNO968063 피/ FBIS 03 리우데자네이루 라디오 투피 포르투갈어 2330 63년 11월 8일 W (텍스트) BAIA에 있는 CONDE 지방자치단체의 보고서, SAY A 커다란 금속 구체가 도시 중심부에 떨어져 구멍이 났습니다. 깊이는 4미터입니다. 신비한 구체에는 창문 모양의 구멍이 있습니다 두꺼운 유리로 덮여 있습니다. 그 안에는 무거운 옷을 입은 인간의 몸이 있습니다 해독할 수 없는 비문이 새겨진 CLQTHING. 그 CONDE의 PO~ULATION은 흥미로우며 당국은 INf ORNED. 111A 11월 9일 RWS/GY 'r. . ' , 7

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RIO DE JANEIRO RADIO TUPI IN PORTUGUESE 2330 8 NOV 63 W
(TEXT) REPORTS FROM THE MUNICIPALITY OF CONDE, IN' BAIA, 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
COVERED WITH THICK GLASS. INSIDE IS A HUMAN BODY DRESSED IN HEAVY
CLQTHING BEARING INSCRIPTIONS WHICH CANNOT BE DECIPHERED. THE
PO~ULATION OF CONDE IS INTRIGUED, AND THE AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN
INf ORNED.
9 NOV 111A RWS/GY
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