Two USAF men and Santa on radar screen, circa 1965
- Title
- Two USAF men and Santa on radar screen, circa 1965
- LC Subject
- United States. Air Force Surveillance radar
- Creator
- Oregon State University. Reserve Officers Training Corps
- Description
- Two USAF sergeants looking at radar screen with Santa and reindeer. Standard publicity stock photograph used for Christmas Eve reports of Santa being picked up on military radar. The radar equipment in the photograph gives some indication to the era, probably mid-1960s. "For immediate release: Flash! U. F. O. sighted! Powerful radars of the Portland Air Defense Sector have begun receiving scope returns on a strange unidentified flying object in the vicinity of the North Pole and headed south. U. S. Air Force radarmen Airman First Class Jerry A. Dickinson (left) from Oakland, Calif. and Technical Sergeant John C. Candelaria of New York were the first to spot the U. F. O. Huge digital computers of the Air Defense Command indicate the aerial 'invader' will arrive over (name of community) at midnight on December 25th."
- Work Type
- photographic prints photographs
- Date
- 1960/1970
- Identifier
- P002:173
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Local Collection Name
- Oregon State University Military Photographs Collection, 1875-1975 (P 002)
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Primary Set
- OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Is Part Of
- Series 5: Cold War Years, 1946-1975
- Institution
- Oregon State University
