CIA · CIA-UAP-018
Report of Unusual Flying-Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity (Hungary, 1955, Full Letter)
This is a three-page CIA Information Report (No. 00-B-93674) that is the companion to CIA-UAP-013: it carries the same report number and summary but additionally reproduces the fuller text of the private Hungarian holiday letter, in which the writer describes "so-called saucers" that for weeks kept "scores of scientists busy" and "amazing flyers" moving at 12,000 kilometers per hour. The added pages are domestic family correspondence (Christmas plans, a circus, family health) with the saucer passage embedded near the end.
Key excerpts
“Everyone has been excited by the so-called saucers for the past few weeks. These fast-rushing heavenly phenomena have been and still are keeping scores of scientists busy [...] these amazing flyers moved at a speed of 12,000 kilometers per hour. (p. 3)”
Alternative hypotheses
Public rumor / press-driven excitement
most probable).
Misperceived conventional aerospace activity
Astronomical or atmospheric phenomena
Genuine unidentified objects
least probable on this evidence).