Multi-Release · U.S. Department of War
PURSUE Declassified Archive
The Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — a rolling declassification series from the U.S. Department of War. The archive includes the FBI 62-HQ-83894 case file, NASA Apollo / Mercury audio and lunar photography, DoE and CIA / ODNI records, and unresolved infrared sensor footage from CENTCOM, EUCOM, INDOPACOM, AFRICOM, and NORTHCOM. Originally released at war.gov/UFO.
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Released August 7, 2026 · U.S. Department of War
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PDFDepartment of State · Bahia, Brazil
DOS-UAP-D002, Diplomatic Cable, Brazil, November 20, 1963
This document is a U.S. Department of State diplomatic cable from the U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to the Office of the Secretary of State in Washington, D.C., on November 20, 1963. This cable relays the findings of the scientific attaché at the American Consulate in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, that a widely reported incident allegedly involving a crashed unidentified object was unsubstantiated, characterizing the reports as a fabrication originating in Rio de Janeiro. The Consulate cites a lack of contemporary local reporting regarding the alleged incident, as well as contradictory reporting from local newspapers after the fact, as evidence that the published claims are unsubstantiated. The Consulate also cites a statement from the Brazilian Ministry of Aeronautics categorically denying that there was “any “strange object” in Conde [Bahia].” This correspondence follows a previous exchange between the Embassy and the Department of State, included in this collection under the title “DOS-UAP-D001.”
PDFDepartment of State · Bahia, Brazil
DOS-UAP-D001, Diplomatic Cable, Brazil, November 14, 1963
This document is a U.S. Department of State diplomatic cable from the U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to the Office of the Secretary of State in Washington, D.C., on November 14, 1963. This cable documents an effort by the Embassy to verify that the Department had assessed certain content published in a local newspaper as inauthentic, following a discussion on a poor-quality telephone connection the previous night. To ensure both offices were referencing the same reporting, the cable cites descriptive language paraphrased from the press, namely a “large metal manned balloon” and a “dead crewman aboard wearing [a] uniform or spacesuit with strange markings.” The cable concludes with the embassy’s understanding that an object assessed to be a weather balloon had been reported in the vicinity, but that no such object had been found to have crashed. A follow-on correspondence regarding the alleged incident is included in this collection under the title “DOS-UAP-D002.”