Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity, 1955 — CIA File
A 1955 report on a UFO sighting in Hungary. The information came from a letter between Hungarian relatives, living in the USA and Budapest.
Incident Overview
In 1955, in Hungary, CIA preserved a documentary record that was declassified and published on June 12, 2026 as part of the third tranche of the Department of War’s Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE).
What the government released
A 1955 report on a UFO sighting in Hungary. The information came from a letter between Hungarian relatives, living in the USA and Budapest. A more redacted version of the report has been available on CIA’s public website.
Primary-source excerpt
Drawn directly from the released document: “We are planning to see it with the children~ Ev eryone has been ·excited by the so called saucers for the past few weeks. These fast rushing heavenly phenorna have been and still are keeping scores of scientists busy -~I_____ ras surely seen them or read about them; these amazing ~liers moved at a speed of 12 000 kilometers per hour. We wish you all good health and send our regards and affection to mother and the children.”.
Status of the case
Records released under the PURSUE program are designated unresolved by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which means the federal government has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Where AARO has offered a likely source for an item — an infrared sensor aboard a military aircraft, a commercial camera, or a known optical effect — that attribution is the agency’s working assessment rather than a final determination. Conventional candidates such as drones, balloons, flares, satellites, parallax and forced-perspective artifacts, and ordinary aircraft remain on the table for any unresolved case absent better data than a single sensor pass or a witness recollection.