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From the source: Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: 1955, Hungary. A 1955 report on a UFO sighting in Hungary. The information came from a letter between Hungarian relatives, living in the USA and Budapest. A more redacted version of the report has been available on CIA's public website.
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SEE BOTTOM OF PAGE FOR ADDITIONAL SPECIAL CONTROLS, IF ANY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION REPORT PREPARED AND DISSEMINATED BY CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY COUNTRY Hungary SUBJECT Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity PLACE ACQUIRED (By source) Nov 55 DATE ACQUIRED (By source) Nov 55 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION SOURCE Naturalized US citizen of Hungarian extraction. He corresponds regularly with two nieces living in Budapest. 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 saucers (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 km 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: Budapest Moscow 3. This is the first time my niece has mentioned such objects in her letters. 4. Available on loan from CIA Library is a photostatic copy of original letter in Hungarian and an English translation. The excerpt quoted in para. 1 is marked in brackets in this letter. UNCLASSIFIED - end - LIMITED: Dissemination limited to full-time employees of CIA, AEC and FBI; and, within State and Defense, to the Intelligence components, other offices producing NIS elements, and higher echelons with their immediate supporting staffs. Not to be disseminated to consultants, external projects or reserve personnel on short term active duty (excepting individuals who are normally full-time employees of CIA, AEC, FBI, State or Defense) unless the written permission of the originating office has been obtained through the Assistant Director for Collection and Dissemination, CIA.
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Report, from the pursue 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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.