Brief

This file, cataloged as CIA-UAP-009, is a 1957 CIA Information Report on UFO sightings over Budapest, Hungary. The release of 6/12/26 corresponds to a version that CIA had previously published in more heavily redacted form on its public website. The single page of source text provided is corrupted or illegible, so no load-bearing factual claims can be extracted from the document body itself.

Metadata

Agency

CIA

Release

6/12/26

Incident

1957

Location

Budapest, Hungary

Type

PDF • .pdf

Length

1 pages

Tags

Budapest, Hungary, 1957, UFO sighting

Key points

• The document is a CIA Information Report dated to 1957 concerning unknown flying objects over Budapest, Hungary.p.1
• A more redacted version of this same report has previously been available on CIA's public website, per the release description.p.1
• Only one page was provided, and its extractable text is garbled, leaving no readable verbatim content.p.1

Most interesting

• The report concerns sightings over Budapest in 1957, during the Cold War, a year after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
• The description notes a more redacted version of this report already exists on CIA's public website, suggesting this release restores previously withheld text.