Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, dated 2 August 1956, collects unevaluated accounts from a source. The source says that in spring 1954, while in a military hospital near Stalingrad, they twice saw an unseen object cross the sky with strong air vibration and a screeching noise. The report also describes a May 1956 radar observation of a fast high-altitude formation reported to Hungary's Ministry of Defense, along with a wave of Hungarian flying saucer reports that officials dismissed as a myth.
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1. During the early part of May 1956, I was told by several engineers, close associates when I believe to be reliable, that the Ministry of defense was alerted concerning the over-flight of a formation of unknown flying objects, flying in an easternly 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 Army Air Defense Command. Nothing was done to disturb this flight, the probable reason being that the Army Air Defense Command had no weapons at its disposal to reach these intruders. During the same period, May and June 1950, many reports originating from all sections of Hungary cited the appearance of "Flying Saucers". For two or three weeks, reports appeared almost daily, describing three objects as first-flying objects which could change direction of flight, acceleration and deceleration with respect to us. 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 limited by US propaganda. An official announcement appeared in "United Key" declaring the active "Flying Saucer" scare was a myth. * In interesting observation of one of my colleagues however, we "Even if they don't exist, I hope they are on their way to bomb Moscow."
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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.