CIA Document Talks About “Flying Saucers” Traveling 7,400+MPH in 1955; More Information Discovered Yet Withheld By Agency

Document Title: Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity Agency: Central Intelligence Agency Date: 17 April 1955 Notable for: Describing "flying saucers" traveling at speeds of over 7,400 miles per hour. This document is part of a collection released by The Black Vault, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) clearing house responsible for the declassification of hundreds of thousands of pages released by the U.S. Government and Military. The document is made available through the declassification efforts and research of John Greenewald, Jr., creator of The Black Vault. The document was released on March 12, 2024, with no redactions lifted, revealing that even more information by the CIA is withheld on a UFO case that suggests a technology beyond known human capability at the time. Central Intelligence Agency Washington. D.C. 20505 11 January 2022 John Greenewald, Jr. 27305 W. Live Oak Road Suite #1203 Castaic, CA 91384 john@tJreenewald.com Reference: EOM-2020-00226 Dear Requester: This letter is a final response to your 6 January 2020 Mandatory Declassification Review request referenced above and submitted under Executive Order 13526 (hereafter "the Order") for: REPORT OF UNUSUAL FLYING OBJECT SIGHTINGS AND ATTENDANT SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0000015279. We completed a thorough search for records responsive to your request and located the enclosed document which we can release in segregable form with deletions as marked on the basis of Sections 3.3(h)(2) and 6.2(d) of the Order. As the CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator, I am the CIA official responsible for this determination. You have the right to appeal this response to the Agency Release Panel within 90 days from the date of this letter. Please explain the basis for your appeal. You may address appellate correspondence to: Information and Privacy Coordinator Central Intelligence Agency Washington, DC 20505 If you have any questions regarding this response, you may seek assistance by calling this office at 703-613-1287. Sincerely, Mark Lilly Information and Privacy Coordinator Enclosure The Black Vault is the largest online Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) document clearing house in the world. The research efforts here are responsible for the declassification of hundreds of thousands of pages released by the U.S. Government & Military. Discover the Truth at: http://www.theblackvault.com This document is made available through the declassification efforts and research of John Greenewald, Jr., creator of: for Release: 2021/12/27 C06874941 SEE BOTTOM OF PAGE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REPORT PREPARED AND DISSEMINATED BY CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY THIS IS INFORMATION CLASSIFIED INFORMATION COUNTRY REPORT NO. _,.oo— B-9367U SUBJECT Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity DATE DISTRIBUTED 17 April 1955 NO. OF PAGES 5 NO. OF ENCLS. SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT * PLACE ACQUIRED (By source) RESPONSIVE TO c o /c DATE ACQUIRED (By source) S a v 55 □ATE OF INFORMATION (Date or dates, place or places, events or conditions described in report excluded) E w 5 5 . SOURCE 3.3(h)(2) 6.2(d) 3.3(h)(2) 6.2(d) In February 1955, I received a letter from my niece in Budapest. This letter contained the following interesting item (free translation); "The so-called flying saucers (rockets) / sic / for several weeks kept the people in a nervous state. These very fast speeding flyers kept scientific groups very busy. I'm sure you heard already from the papers, 12 thousand kilometers per hour was estimated on these flyers." Included with the letter was the following sketch indicating the formation and suspected course of the show objects; Budapest Moscow This is the first time my niece has mentioned such objects in her letters. This document is a country report, disseminated by the Central Intelligence Agency, and is classified information. It was distributed on 17 April 1955, and is part of a collection released by The Black Vault. This is what the public record looks like at its most ordinary. storyflo.com. https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/cia/EOM_2020_00226_FINAL.pdf