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Track Santa’s worldwide journey with NORAD on Christmas Eve
Posted On Dec 27 2015
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The Norad Santa Tracker is quite the operation, and dozens of staff will be working to take calls, as well as give updates as to Santa’s progress on social media sites Facebook and Twitter, as well as on the Santa Tracker main website.
Instead of telling the kids that they dialed the wrong number, Shoup said that he wasn’t Santa Claus but he could track him on radar.
“It actually went through to the command center at what was then known as the Continental Air Defense Command – NORAD’s predecessor”, Maj.
In 1955, a Colorado Springs-based Sears, Roebuck & Co. advertisement misprinted the telephone number for children to call Santa. Volunteers answered calls from an estimated 125,000 children around the globe looking for Santa’s whereabouts.
For the 60th consecutive year, the North American Aerospace Defense Command is continuing its tradition of telling youngsters the location of Santa Claus on his annual storybook world tour.
When a child called in to CONAD on Christmas Eve asking where Santa was, man-in-charge Colonel Harry Shoup first thought it was a prank call.
The NORAD Santa-tracking website includes games and allows people to ask Cortana, Microsoft s virtual assistant software, where Santa is at any given moment. The website is available in eight languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Chinese. Jennifer Stadnyk of the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs, said.
NORAD is responsible for defending the skies and monitoring the sea approaches for both nations. How can he move so fast and deliver so many presents?
“The Santa Tracker uses the same technology that’s powering the government’s critical systems”, said Susan Keys, head of Avaya Government Solutions.
Yes, Santa Claus is coming to town.
You better watch out!
If you have an Android device, you can track Santa’s path on the official Google app, which is also compatible with Chromecast for users who want to view the tracker from their TVs.
