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Budapest flying objects

1955 to 1957
Budapest, Hungary

Unresolved
Representative drawing from the From orbit page, not this specific sighting.

The official description

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.

Quoted from the U.S. Department of War, PURSUE UAP releases. Read every file for this incident in Official files or at war.gov/UFO.

Witnesses

Not named in the files

Explanation

Unresolved

The official files offer no explanation.

Sources

  1. U.S. Department of War, PURSUE UAP releases (war.gov/UFO)war.gov
  2. U.S. Department of War, Release 03: CIA-UAP-009, Unknown Flying Objects Observed Over Budapestwar.gov
  3. U.S. Department of War, Release 03: CIA-UAP-013, Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activitywar.gov
  4. U.S. Department of War, Release 03: CIA-UAP-018, Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activitywar.gov

From the U.S. Department of War PURSUE releases. The description is quoted from the official file.

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