NASC Inquiry into Bahia, Brazil Incident, November 13, 1963
- File
- EOP-UAP-D001
- Type
- Document, 1 pages
- Agency
- Executive Office of the President
- Date
- 11/13/63
- Place
- Bahia, Brazil
- Released
- Release 5, August 7, 2026
The government's 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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Authority NNO968063 p/ FBIS 03 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 INf ORN ED. OF CONDE IS INTRIGUED, AND THE AUTHORITIES HAVE BEEN 9 NOV 111A RWS/GY ' r . . ', 7