CIA · CIA-UAP-013
Report of Unusual Flying-Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity (Hungary, 1955)
This is a one-page CIA Information Report (No. 00-B-93674) summarizing a private letter received in November 1955 by a naturalized U.S. citizen from a niece in Hungary, describing "so-called flying saucers" that reportedly kept people in a nervous state and occupied scientists, with an estimated speed of 12,000 km/h.
Key excerpts
“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 am sure you heard already from the press, 12,000 kilometers km per hour was estimated on these flyers." (p. 1)”
Alternative hypotheses
Public rumor / press-driven panic
most probable).
Misidentified conventional aerospace activity
Astronomical or atmospheric phenomena
Genuine unidentified objects
least probable on this evidence).