This is a one-page CIA Information Report dated April 17, 1956, distributed under report number 00-B-93674, concerning flying object sightings reported from Budapest, Hungary, with information dated to November 1955. The source is a naturalized U.S. citizen of Hungarian extraction who received a letter from a niece residing in Budapest. The letter described "flying saucers" that had kept the local population in a nervous state for several weeks and prompted activity by scientific groups; the niece estimated the objects' speed at 12,000 kilometers per hour. A hand-drawn sketch accompanying the letter indicated the objects' suspected formation and flight path between Budapest and Moscow.
The document is notable as a second-hand, civilian account filtered through personal correspondence, making its evidentiary weight limited. A more heavily redacted version was previously available on the CIA's public website; this PURSUE Release 01 version restores additional text. Key gaps include no identification of the scientific groups mentioned, no corroborating technical data, and no follow-up reporting visible in this record. The sketch referenced in the text does not appear to have survived in the released pages.