Track Santa online with NORAD website

And this year’s event was extra special as NORAD celebrated its 60th year of tracking Santa Claus. Sgt. John Gordinier, an Alaska NORAD spokesman.

And they scattered in their red and green suits to the mail room, present wrapping counter, naughty and nice station, toy factory, candy land and reindeer stable.

Luckily, Santa is good at keeping in touch with NORAD, Gordinier said. “Part of what we do in the military and part of this program is you have to keep up with the times”.

“Rudolph’s nose gives off an infrared signature similar to a missile launch”. He then works his way west in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. After making his last deliveries, he will head home to the North Pole for some well-deserved rest – before starting preparations for next Christmas.

“Make sure that you know, all his fire protective gear is working, but also his his smoke detectors and everything, make sure they’re working and just to make sure that he doesn’t play with fire”. More than 1,200 volunteers man a command center each year to field all the calls and emails.

Those volunteers will also be providing updates as to where Santa is through social media networks Facebook and Twitter. Of course, both have plenty of less educational games too, from Google’s elf-filled music maker to Microsoft’s Flapping Bird.

NORAD has video of Santa flying all over the world.

The children instead reached another hotline instead: the operations hotline of Col. Harry Shoup, the crew commander on duty at what was then known as the Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center, an organization that helped guard North America against potential air attack.

The phone kept ringing throughout the night and the deadly serious senior Air Force officers worked a roster system using Colonel Shoup’s tour de force as their inspiration. When he figured out he was talking to a little boy, he pretended he was Santa. Patty and her husband, Bryan, who is retired from the Air Force, have been volunteering at NORAD each Christmas Eve for five years, fielding calls from children from all over the world eager to hear about Santa’s progress.

The 60-year-old tradition started with a typo in a Sears advertisement.