Watch Santa Claus travel
And thanks to Google, Microsoft, and NORAD, you can track Santa’s whereabouts from your phone, computer, or tablet. You can blast a streaming Good King Wenceslas while exploring Santa’s village, which includes information about NORAD, Santa Claus, holiday traditions, related YouTube videos, holiday stories and coloring pages.
The military’s North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, at Peterson Air Force Base, launched its 60th year of tracking Santa’s Yuletide adventure.
A Sears department store Santa phone bank, accidentally posted the wrong phone number for children to call in their Christmas wish lists.
Santa will be on the go until he makes his final stop at Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean early Christmas Day.
The Santa tracking app will be up on the Spin Control website through Christmas Eve. It originally started in 1955 when a newspaper offered a phone number for children to call and find out exactly where Santa was at that exact time. Instead of turning the calls away, the director of operations, Colonel Harry Shoup, had his staff provide radar-tracked updates of Santa’s location.
The Colorado-based organization, which stands for North American Aerospace Defense Command, is keeping tabs not only on where Santa and his reindeer are at any given moment around the world, but how many gifts he’s delivered.
Log on to the NORAD Santa Tracker website and watch Saint Nick get ready for the big trip, rand the Santa-curious may speak with live operators who will dish on the big guy’s coordinates: 1-877-Hi-NORAD (1-877-446-6723).
Last year, NORAD received more than 134,000 phone calls and answered over 6,500 emails.
NORAD was created in 1958 by the governments of Canada and the United States as a bi-national air defense command.
“When we get back to the North Pole, we feed the reindeer lots of hay and goodies because they worked so hard over the night and then we put them in their stalls”, said Santa.