CIA-UAP-009

Unknown Flying Objects Observed Over Budapest 

Agency
CIA
Format
Document, 1 page
Incident date
1957
Released
Release 03, June 12, 2026
Source
war.gov

Description from war.gov

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. 

Archive note war.gov published this report as a 134 x 221 pixel image of the page, too small to read or to OCR. The text has no transcription here for that reason.

1 page, 4 words of text

Page 1

The text is machine-read (OCR) from the scan and can contain errors. The scan is the record.

Machine summary

Written by Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) on June 12, 2026, from the record's text and war.gov's description. It is not part of the record and can contain errors; check it against the document.

CIA-UAP-009 is a 1957 CIA Information Report documenting UFO sightings over Budapest, Hungary. The report was produced by the Central Intelligence Agency and concerns observations of unknown flying objects in the airspace above the Hungarian capital. Specific details regarding witnesses, object descriptions, and the number of observed craft are not recoverable from the available OCR text excerpt.

The document is notable primarily because a more heavily redacted version has been publicly available on the CIA's website prior to this release; the PURSUE Release 01 version presumably contains additional unredacted content. The absence of recoverable OCR text from the first page limits assessment of what new information is now visible. The 1957 date places the incident during the Cold War, a period when the CIA actively collected intelligence on aerial phenomena over Eastern Bloc countries, partly to distinguish unknown objects from Soviet military activity. The extent of remaining redactions in this version is not determinable from the provided excerpt.

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