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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, dated 1956 and distributed in April 1956, concerns Hungary and passes on a November 1955 letter a source received from a niece. The letter said so-called flying saucers or rockets had kept people nervous for several weeks and kept scientific groups busy, with speeds estimated at 12 thousand km per hour. A sketch of the objects' formation and suspected course was included. The source noted it was the niece's first mention of such objects.
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1. In November 1955 I received a letter from my niece in Budapest. This letter contained the following interesting item [free translation]: "The so-called flying sancers (rockets) [sic] for several weeks kept the people in a nervous state. These very fast speeding flyers kept scientific groups very busy. I'm sure you heard already from the papers, 12 thousand kn per hour was estimated on these flyers." 2. Included with the letter was the following sketch indicating the formation and suspected course of the above objects: 3. This is the first time my niece has mentioned such objects in her letters.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.