Information Report: Fast-moving Flying Objects Over Stalingrad and Unknown Flying Objects Observed Over Budapest

This document consists of two separate intelligence reports compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency regarding sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena in the Soviet Union and Hungary. The first report details an incident in the spring of 1954 near the Barrikadi Munitions Works in Stalingrad, USSR. A witness, hospitalized for jaundice, reported observing an object flying from the southeast to the northwest. The witness noted that the object appeared to be climbing and produced a screeching, whistling noise, though the object itself was not clearly visible, only a disturbance in the air. The second report concerns sightings in Hungary during May and June 1956. It states that several engineers reported that the Hungarian Ministry of Defense was alerted to a formation of unknown flying objects traveling at an extremely high rate of speed at an altitude of 25,000 meters. These objects were reportedly tracked by Hungarian Air Defense Command radar, but no action was taken, allegedly because the command lacked the necessary weaponry to intercept them. The report notes that for two or three weeks, sightings were reported almost daily, with the objects exhibiting rapid changes in direction, acceleration, and deceleration. Ultimately, Hungarian authorities concluded that these objects did not exist and dismissed the reports as a 'flying saucer' scare orchestrated by US propaganda.