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."
U. S. Air Force, dated July 21, 1952. Beaver Engraving Co. stamp and grease pencil size markings on reverse. Unidentified USAF Colonel, standard uniform shirt with tie tucked. Officer's lapel pins in good detail as is his pilot wings over left pocket.
Stock military photo, stamped on reverse: "Photo by United Technology Corp. (Photographic Dept.) Sunnyvale, Calif." No date listed. Photograph of a USAF missile rocket motor being tested in bunker on the side of a wooded hill. Photo was probably used for an article in the Oregon Stater, or for USAF ROTC training.