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Track Santa online with NORAD website

You can blast a streaming Good King Wenceslas while exploring Santa’s village, which includes information about NORAD, Santa Claus, holiday traditions, related YouTube videos, holiday stories and coloring pages.

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Shoup, who has since been dubbed the “Santa Colonel”, chose not to hang up on the children who called that night. Instead of calls ringing to Santa, the phone number rang the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD), what was to become the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).

Volunteers will also share Santa’s location on Facebook and Twitter.

First-time tracker volunteer Katie Morand, 14, said helping out is her way of giving back to the community. The number, though, was misprinted – and the calls ended up going somewhere else.

“Google’s Santa Tracker launches today – And it’s time to follow the jolly man’s sleigh”, the California-based Internet firm said in a blog post “Tis the season for Santa Tracker” playfully penned in rhyme. NORAD monitors the skies above North America for attacks and UFOs. The misdirected call was the result of the child reversing two numbers of a Santa Line phone number printed in a Sears advertisement, according to the ABC News. He then works his way west in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

NORAD’s 60th year of tracking Santa involves more than the military. When he figured out he was talking to a little boy, he pretended he was Santa.

“The children always ask if they’re on the naughty list, but one of the unique statements they’ve said is that ‘I’m waiting for Santa to come through the ceiling in my roof, ‘ which they meant their attic access to their room”, said Volunteer Carlenn Trunkhill.

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NORAD claims Canadian and American fighter jets accompany Saint Nick in each country’s airspace though the website lacks accounts of the journey from the airmen.

Tracking tradition continues