Senator asks if NORAD will track Santa this Christmas Eve

Every year on Christmas Eve, the North American Aerospace Defense Command takes on the mission of following Santa’s Christmas journey across the world.

In a 1955 advertisement, the newspaper inadvertently listed the direct line of the crew commander at a US Air Force base in Colorado as the number children should call to reach Santa.

NORAD is normally responsible for monitoring any aerospace or marine threat but every Christmas season, it focuses on one figure who is anything but a threat: Santa Claus. Children and parents can call the NORAD operations floor at 1-877-446-6723 for live updates, or they can track Santa at www.noradsanta.org online.

Thousands of volunteers are staffing phone banks, answering emails and programming the NORAD website.

Any time on December 24, Windows Phone users can ask Cortana for Santa’s location, and OnStar subscribers can press the OnStar button in their vehicles to locate Santa.

Alternatively, as Santa is getting a lot of high-tech help these days, you can also check out Google’s Santa Tracker – Google is tracking Santa using Google maps.

“Well, I think it’s a welcome reminder that, while most Americans are at home enjoying Christmas with their families, that our airmen, soldiers, sailors and marines, whether they’re in NORAD or around the world are out there keeping us safe”, Cotton said. “Really, in November, that’s when it all starts in a big way”. NORAD staff got a call on a red phone available only to the President of the United States, but the caller was a child asking where Santa was, he said. But on Christmas Eve, Santa returns to the North Pole to begin his world-wide journey to bring happiness and joy to children everywhere.

As Christmas approaches, kids start waiting for NORAD and Google Santa Tracker websites. We do, however, know from history that it appears he arrives only when children are asleep!

Previous year on December 24, according to Chouinard, NORAD Tracks Santa received over 134,000 calls and over 6,500 e-mails.

Watch the official Santa Tracker announcement below. NORAD has been tracking Santa Claus for decades, six decades to be precise along with its predecessor.