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IN T     LAe   TA R   Negative Report on UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)
                          SUBJECT:
                      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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              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 11 strange 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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