Diplomatic Cable Brazil November 14 1963

Summary

DOS-UAP-D001 is an unclassified 14 November 1963 Department of State incoming telegram from the U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro to the Secretary of State, with information to Amconsul Salvador. The cable addresses local newspaper reports that a large metal manned balloon had been found in the vicinity of Salvador around 8 November, with a dead crewman aboard wearing a uniform or spacesuit bearing strange markings and a four-meter-deep crater formed upon impact. The message notes the object had been tentatively identified as a weather-type balloon but that nothing had been found on the ground, and that the report had been passed to Defense and NASA.