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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, dated 1 March 1957, relays a source's account from Hungarian engineer associates. It describes a May 1950 alert in which air defense radar observed a formation of unknown objects flying east at about twenty-five thousand meters at extreme speed, which air defense had no weapons to intercept. It also notes near-daily Hungarian flying saucer reports in May and June 1950, which experts at the War Technical Institute judged nonexistent or US propaganda, and an official announcement called a myth.
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1. During the early part of May 1956, I was told by several engineers, close associates when I believed to be reliable, that the Ministry of Defense was alerted concerning the over-flight of a formation of unknown flying objects, flying in an maternally direction during that month. 2. My friends related that hat appeared to be aircraft, flying in formation at an extremely high rate of speed at approximately twenty-five thousand meters, were observed by radar units of the Bose Air Defense Command. Nothing was done to disturb this flight, the probable reason being that the Bose Air Defense Command had no weapons at its disposal to reach these intruders. 3. During the same period, May and June 1950, may reports originating from all sections of Hungary cited the appearance of "Flying saucers". For two or three weeks, reports appeared almost daily, describing these objects as fast-flying objects which could change direction of flight, acceleration and deceleration with unmistakable My friends told me of discussions at the War Technical Institute in which Hungary's leading mathematicians, engineers and technicians took part, concerning these objects. It was decided that they did not exist and that if anything, the reports were issued by US propaganda. As official announcement appeared in "Bushed Rep" declaring the entire "Flying saucer" scare was a myth. An intermittent observation of one of my colleagues however, was "Even if they don't exist, I hope they are on their way to bomb horror."
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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.