“And they had children calling one after another, so he put a couple of airmen on the phones to act like Santa Claus”.
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The tracking of Santa pre-dates the Internet age, and NORAD itself – and was quite accidental.
Colonel Harry Shoup ordered staff to answer calls with an update on Father Christmas’ location and the tradition has continued, now with a live tracker of Santa’s journey online.
More than 70,000 children still call NORAD to talk to Santa on a toll-free line – (877) HI-NORAD or (877) 446-6723 – and another 12,000 or so send e-mails to [email protected].
The military’s Santa-tracking efforts have become considerably more elaborate since 1955.
60 years ago on December 24, 1955, a Sears Department store placed an advertisement in a Colorado Springs newspaper which told children that they could call Santa personally and his very own secret telephone number was included in the ad.
It comes on a glorious night when nine reindeer zoom into the sky at the North Pole and carry his sleigh full of toys around the globe, stopping at house after house where he descends down the chimney with a gift for ever good little boy and girl inside.
The number was for a crisis phone at Air Operations Center at Continental Air Defense Command, NORAD’s predecessor, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The call center in a training building will be staffed for 23 hours on Christmas Eve. Google also has a Santa tracker with some games and other treats, which you can find here.
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While the sun has yet to set on American East Coast, the annual Santa Tracker kicked off early Friday, according to eastern standard time, Following Santa’s liftoff at the North Pole to his first stop in Novoye Chaplino, Russia to Australia and parts of Asia on his way west. Almost 9 million people from more than 200 countries are expected to check in with NORAD’s Santa-tracking website before they go to bed on Christmas Eve.
