Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity
CIA-UAP-013 · Release 03 (6/12)
Agency
CIA
Document type
PDF
Location
Budapest, Hungary (Other)
Incident date
1956
Release
Release 03 (6/12)
Evidence tier
Tier 2 · Documented firsthand report
What the document says
This 1956 CIA Information Report describes flying object sightings reported by a Budapest-based sub-source, including a sketch showing the objects' suspected formation and flight path between Budapest and Moscow. A more redacted version of this report has been available on CIA's public website.
Auto-extracted from the original PDF · may contain extraction artifacts. The source document above is authoritative.
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Context
This is one of 21 CIA records in the declassified archive, reported in the Other region. It was published in Release 03 (6/12).
Evidence tiers describe the type of record (sensor capture vs. written report vs.
administrative file) · not a claim about its conclusions. UFO Papers reports only what the documents state.