The NORAD Santa Tracker and the Google Santa Tracker have been activated for Christmas 2015, with millions of children around the world looking to track exactly where Santa is on the way to delivering their presents.
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The Colorado-based organization, which stands for North American Aerospace Defense Command, is keeping tabs not only on where Santa and his reindeer are at any given moment around the world, but how many gifts he’s delivered.
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He has not yet made his way across the Atlantic to Bermuda, and judging by last year’s tracking, Santa may be in the Bermuda area at around midnight tonight.
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The Santa tracking tradition started in 1955, when a Colorado Springs, Colorado, Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement encouraging local children to call Santa listed an incorrect phone number. The ad told kids to call Santa at a number that turned out to be a secret hotline at the Continental Air Defense Command, the name for NORAD’s predecessor.
Shoup had his staff check the radar for signs that Santa was making his way south from the North Pole. Windows phone users can ask Cortana for Santa’s location, and OnStar subscribers can press the button in their vehicle to get an update.
“Oh, don’t worry, Santa knows where you are”, Nicole Dutil reassured one anxious young caller.
NORAD – the North American Aerospace Defence Command – plays a crucial role in the defence of the U.S. and Canada. But Col. Shoup wasn’t one to crush the dreams of wide-eyed children wishing to speak to Santa, so he went along with it.
The program is in its 60th year, and in addition to serving kids by phone it includes a website that shows Santa’s location along with constantly updating statistics about his trip.
Those volunteers will also be providing updates as to where Santa is through social media networks Facebook and Twitter.
Gordinier says Rudolph’s red nose is a real tip-off for them, because it gives off an infrared signature similar to a missile launch. Volunteers took 117,000 phone calls and answered 9,600 emails.
“The Santa Tracker uses the same technology that’s powering the government’s critical systems”, said Susan Keys, head of Avaya Government Solutions, which handles the call center.
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First lady Michelle Obama was expected to volunteer, with calls forwarded to her on Christmas Eve.
