Diplomatic Cable, Brazil, November 20, 1963

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SUBJECT: Negative Report on UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)
Reportedly Sighted Near Salvador, Bahia on November 8, 1964.
REF
: Embtel 94 to Amconsul Salvador (to SecState 1054) of
November 14, 1963.
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Information copies of the above Embtel were sent to the
Department with the request that they be passed to Defense (for
the Air Force) and NASA.
Mr. Harold Midkiff, the Consul in Salvador, replied by
telegram No. 157 of November 14 to the above cited Embtel; as
follows:
"Story of strange object descending in region of Conde Bahia
apparently fabricated in Rio no such objects seen by
anyone in the area according to newspaper reporters and
others who rushed there before investigation reports
were received Secretary Public Security speculated object
might be weather balloon but no such sighting verified."
In addition, he forwarded by pouch also on November 14
two newspaper clippings from Salvadoran journalswhich substan­
tiate the above message, respectively Diario de Noticias of
November 9, and the Jornal da Bahia of November 11.
The first
of these states that the Ministry of Aeronautics categorically
denies that there was any 11strange object" in Conde.
The other
is entitled "The Airship that wasn't there".
According to the Jornal da Bahia reporter, the only news­
worthy aspect of the episode is that it produced an astounding
by-product:
he sent a telegram to his paper from the federal
telegraphic office in Conde - by an old morse code transmitter ­
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