UFO sightings over Budapest, CIA report, 1957
Official file: CIA-UAP-009, Unknown Flying Objects Observed Over Budapest
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Key facts
- Official file ID
- CIA-UAP-9 (cited as CIA-UAP-009 in this file)
- Document type
- Document
- Agency
- CIA
- Released in
- R03 · 2026-06-12
- Incident date
- 1957
- Incident location
- Budapest, Hungary
- Coordinates
- 47.4813896, 19.1457723
- Pages legible
- 0/1
- VIRIN
- 260508-O-D0360-1086
Official description
This is a 1957 CIA Information Report regarding UFO sightings over Budapest. A more redacted version of this report has been available on CIA's public website.
Document status
AI summary withheld: only 0 of 1 scanned pages contain legible text, so an automatic summary risked being inaccurate. Read the official description above or consult the source PDF for the complete record.
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[PAGE 1] [no legible text — the source scan itself is extremely low-resolution (embedded image only 134x221 px), not blank or redacted. The page visibly has the structure of a CIA Information Report (header box with COUNTRY/SUBJECT fields, REPORT NO./DATE DISTR. box, and roughly five numbered paragraphs of body text), but at the available resolution no individual word is legible even under heavy magnification. A higher-resolution scan would be needed to transcribe this page.]
Generated with AI from the official file — may contain errors.
Source: U.S. Department of War / AARO — public domain · war.gov/ufo
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