Track Santa’s Christmas Eve journey live

An actor dressed as Santa Claus waves from a suspended sleigh over a Christmas market as the Dom cathedral stands behind on November 25, 2013 in Berlin, Germany.

Technicians in Canada and the United States would report so-called sightings of a sleigh full of toys being pulled about by flying reindeer.

This year, NORAD is celebrating its 60th anniversary of tracking Jolly Old St. Nick.

“The good thing about Santa is that he enjoys the pilot’s coming alongside as he’s a pilot himself he really enjoys the interaction with the fighters”, he said.

Google’s tracker can detect your location and gives estimates on Santa’s distance while Microsoft’s trackers allows users to simply ask Santa’s location out loud using a mobile device or a computer. All aircraft are reported to have a unique code to identify themselves. Sgt. John Gordinier, an Alaska NORAD spokesman. This year, the satellites’ infrared sensors have zeroed in on, you guessed it, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer’s bright red nose. He then works his way west in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The call was from a local youngster who dialed a misprinted telephone number in a local newspaper advertisement.

This year, those wishing to track Santa can also visit he center’s Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and TroopTube.tv sites.

NORAD Tracks Santa started in 1955, when a child trying to figure out where Santa was dialed a wrong number and ended up talking to a commander at the Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Air Force Col. Harry Shoup took a call from a child and thought he was being pranked.