Is Santa on your radar this Christmas?

Volunteers design and build unique, 3-D tracking software so that children can follow the progress of Santa Claus as he speeds around the globe bringing gifts to all good little girls and boys.

“Next thing you know, dad had called the radio station and had said, ‘This is the commander at the Combat Alert Center, and we have an unidentified flying object”.

Miles of wire, dozens of computers and 157 telephone lines will greet hundreds of volunteers Thursday, The (Colorado Springs) Gazette reported. This year is no different. It even offers a Christmas-themed game called “Code Boogie”, which teaches kids basic programming. “And it doesn’t take too much to imagine it again”.

On a day 60 years ago, a local Sears (NASDAQ: SHLD) store in Colorado Springs ran a dial Santa ad. Except the number was a misprint.

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.

In 1958, the governments of Canada and the United States created the bi-national air defense command North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which then took on the tradition of tracking Santa.

The website is available in eight languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Chinese.

Currently, in its fourth year of being launched, Google’s tracking site has been offering peeks at Santa all month with its own version of an Advent Calendar.

NORAD is responsible for defending the skies and monitoring the sea approaches for both nations. The Cheyenne Mountain facility remains operational, however, and NORAD can quickly move back into the bunker during a crisis.

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NORAD has been keeping tabs on Santa Claus for 60 years.

Starting at 12:01 a.m. today (Dec. 24, 2015), visitors to the NORAD Tracks Santa website at noradsanta.org, can watch Santa make preparations for his flight.

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