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This Central Intelligence Agency information report, received 17 April 1956, concerns Hungary. It passes on a November 1955 letter that a source got from a niece in Budapest. According to the letter, fast "flying saucers (rockets)" had made people nervous for several weeks and kept scientific groups busy, with estimated speeds of 12 thousand per hour. A sketch of the objects' formation and suspected course came with the letter. The source noted that this was the first time the niece had mentioned such objects.
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INFORMATION REPORT PREPARED AND DISSEMINATED BY CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY COURT Burgary REPORT NO. 00-1-93674 SUBJECT Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity DATE RECEIVED 17 APR 56 NO. OF PAPERS 1 NO. OF SHELLS SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT 1 PLACE ACQUARED (By Name) RESPONSE TO DATE ACQUARED (By Name) DATE OF INFORMATION (Date or date, d 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 sensors (rockets) [eig] 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 in 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. 1 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.