It's been a holiday tradition since 1955 and the 2010 edition of the NORAD Santa Tracker is up an running. And yes, it even has an app for your phones as well.
The tradition started as the result of a Colorado Springs, CO based Sears placing an advertisement in the local newspaper that included a phone number that kids could call to talk to Santa.
The tradition started as the result of a Colorado Springs, CO based Sears placing an advertisement in the local newspaper that included a phone number that kids could call to talk to Santa.
However, the number in the printed ad was incorrect. The calls meant for Santa ended up going to CONAD, the forerunner of NORAD.
On the night a December 24, 1955 the officer on duty that night, Colonel Harry Shoup, instructed his personnel to give all children who called in that night a actual location for Santa Claus, and a custom was born.
Now it has morphed into the collective bought at NORAD chases Santa broadcast which uses voluntaries from Cheyenne Mountain and Peterson AFB. The program as well has Facebook and Twitter pages and are responsible for the Santa accounts you assure included in your local news show outlet's Christmas Day evening weather forecasts.
And since Santa's workshops undisclosed position is someplace about the North pole and is at heart Canadian territory, the America founded NORAD trackers clog helping hand from their Canadian counterparts as well.
And children, to keep Santa safe on his nocturnal mission of present bringings he gets fighter escorts while over U.S. and Canadian airspace.
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