★Historically significant

A cabinet-level executive body (NASC) within the Executive Office of the President formally queried the State Department and U.S. Embassy to verify a reported anomalous sphere crash with a deceased occupant in Brazil in November 1963, documenting inter-agency UAP-related inquiry at the presidential advisory level.

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

Executive Office of the PresidentPDFCableNo redactionsPURSUE Release 5

6/10

solid newsworthy item

UAP Insight significance score

Location: Bahia, Brazil
Incident date: 11/13/63
Witnesses: Witness unknown
Released: August 7, 2026

UAP Characteristics

● Sphere

Evidence Types

Testimony

Government Programs Referenced

FBIS

Official 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.”

Key Findings

→Radio Tupi in Rio de Janeiro broadcast a report on November 8, 1963 describing a large metal sphere that fell in the center of Conde, Bahia, gouging a hole four meters deep.
→The sphere was described as having window-shaped openings covered with thick glass and containing a human body dressed in heavy clothing with undecipherable inscriptions.
→The document was filed in the records of Edward C. Welsh, Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council (NASC), indicating executive-level interest.
→Handwritten annotations dated November 13, 1963, record a NASC official requesting the State Department contact 'Nesbitt' to have the U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro follow up with any available information.
→The document is noted as a 'curious report' in handwritten marginalia, suggesting it was flagged as unusual but not conclusively verified.

UAP Insight Analysis— AI generated, not official

This is a CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) wire report dated November 9, 1963, translating a Rio de Janeiro Radio Tupi broadcast about an alleged large metal sphere that crashed in Conde, Bahia, Brazil, gouging a four-meter hole and reportedly containing a human body with undecipherable inscriptions. Handwritten annotations on the document, dated November 13, 1963, indicate a National Aeronautics and Space Council (NASC) official asked a State Department contact (Nesbitt) to query the U.S. Embassy in Brazil for local verification of the report.

Analyst Notes

This document is a secondary relay of a local Portuguese-language radio broadcast — not a firsthand witness account or sensor report. The source is a single regional radio station (Radio Tupi), and no independent verification is present in this document. The nature of the object (sphere with undecipherable inscriptions and human body) could plausibly describe a space capsule or reentry vehicle from early space programs. No official conclusion or investigation result is contained within this document itself.

Extracted Entities

People

Sheldon (annotator, identity unclear)Nesbitt (State Department official referenced in handwritten note)Edward C. Welsh (Executive Secretary, NASC, implied by file provenance)

Agencies & Organizations

CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)National Aeronautics and Space Council (NASC)U.S. Department of StateU.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro

Locations

Conde, Bahia, BrazilRio de Janeiro, Brazil

Aircraft & Objects

Large metal sphere with window-shaped openings covered with thick glass, containing a human body dressed in heavy clothing bearing undecipherable inscriptions

Dates

November 8, 1963 (radio broadcast date)November 9, 1963 (FBIS report date)November 13, 1963 (handwritten annotation date)

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