The Conde Sphere

The Conde Sphere

On 8 November 1963 Radio Tupi in Rio de Janeiro reported that a large metal sphere with windows had fallen in the centre of Conde, in Bahia, gouging a hole four metres deep, with a human body inside. The Foreign Broadcast Information Service took the report down, and a note on its transcript dated 13 November records a request to the State Department to say whether the embassy had anything more. The embassy in Rio asked its consulate in Salvador. On 20 November it sent the Department an airgram titled “Negative Report on UFO”: the consul wrote that no one in the area had seen such an object and called the story “apparently fabricated in Rio”, and two Salvador papers had carried a denial by the Ministry of Aeronautics and a piece called “The Airship that wasn’t there”. The Department marked the airgram “NOTED - NO ACTION” and filed it.

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