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1950s-style documentary illustration of two eleven-year-old boys in a Nashville Tennessee alley field staring up at a dull silver cylinder with helicopter skids hovering above a tree at noon, a silver probe tube extending from its underside into the leaf canopy, and a blue glow at its rear, 1956.

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Tennessee Sightings

1956: Nashville, Tennessee — The Cylinder That Sniffed the Trees

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: September 29, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP ENCOUNTER REPORT 1956: Nashville, Tennessee — The Cylinder That Sniffed the Trees Around noon in 1956, two eleven-year-old boys were building...

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1956: Nashville, Tennessee — The Cylinder That Sniffed the Trees

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