Tag: norad santa tracker
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NORAD tracking Santa with a huge team of volunteers this Christmas Eve
If you and your family will be tracking Santa on Christmas Eve, you have Colorado Springs-based NORAD and its nearly 1,000 volunteers to thank. Every Christmas Eve NORAD, officially known as North American Aerospace Defense Command, puts together tools and pulls volunteers to help people around the world track Ol’ St. Nick as he does…
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How NORAD began tracking Santa
NORAD has been tracking Santa Claus since 1955. Do you know how the decades-old tradition started? A mistake. That year, on Christmas Eve, an advertisement from Sears, published in The Gazette, offered children the chance to call Santa — but listed the wrong number. Instead of calling Santa, kids reached Air Force Col. Harry Shoup —…