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This CIA-released foreign broadcast report, dated November 2, 1954 and declassified in 2013, summarizes an October 30, 1954 Hungarian Home Service radio interview on flying saucers with Professor Jozsef Oveges and journalists Gomori and Tibor Peto. Oveges argued saucers could be neither earthly rockets nor probable spaceships, attributing sightings to atmospheric effects and a recent meteor over Hungary. Gomori and Peto described the saucer stories as mass hysteria organized for political purposes by imperialist forces.
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Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/06/26: CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100009-6 Nov.2,1954 Thus the first saucers appeared in U.S. Skies in the year of the Marshall Plan: this was the great and brutal changes in U.S. foreign policy toward an open (aggressive attitude toward the USSR). In 1952, the year of most violent warmongering, some (12200) flying saucers were seen. There is, however, a flaw in this theory: Why the present recurrence of the socrines, since international tension has been receding yet the number of saucers seen has been mounting? (The aim today is to intimidate the French people) Peto said that from the point of view of physics the explanation lies in natural phenomena. "As to the political side of the flying saucers, I believe we can state that it concerns the creation of an organized wave of (mass) hysteria." As regards the future of the saucers, Peto was rather doubtful that they would suddenly disappear from the skies. One may reckon that after the saucers other parts of the cup will make an appearance, but by then the people will know better (what to think).
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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.