The Norad Santa Tracker is quite the operation, and dozens of staff will be working to take calls, as well as give updates as to Santa’s progress on social media sites Facebook and Twitter, as well as on the Santa Tracker main website.
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The route, which usually Santa do, starts leaving the North Pole crossing the Pacific Ocean, where it begins to deliver presents in island nations, and then he heads west on the northern and southern hemispheres.
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In places like Alaska, however, remote NORAD identification technicians who monitor computer screens 24 hours a day for possible air incursions also spend Christmas Eve serving as official Santa “trackers”.
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The Santa Tracker website was launched in 1997 through there children are able to have a visual glimpse of Santa’s progress.
Santa Claus is making his way around the world and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is tracking his movement across the globe.
Now in this age of apps, keeping an eye on Santa is a one-touch effort from your smart phone.
Instead of telling the kids that they dialed the wrong number, Shoup said that he wasn’t Santa Claus but he could track him on radar.
2015 marks NORAD’s 60th year tracking Santa’s annual journey. 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 National Archives.
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The Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center has been tracking Santa and his sleigh since 1955, when a little girl called and spoke with Col. Harry Shoup. Last year, hundreds of volunteers, including many NORAD employees and Michelle Obama, fielded 135,000 calls from 234 countries.
