Where in the world is Santa? Michelle Obama and NORAD know

The NORAD website will provide “Santacam” updates throughout the day, releasing photos and videos of Santa while he travels around the world.

Google and Microsoft are continuing their separate Internet holiday traditions that allow children, no matter how grown up they might be, to track Santa online as he makes his way around the world on Christmas Eve.

This began the tradition of tracking Santa, a tradition that was carried on by NORAD when it was formed in 1958.

Google and Microsoft have launched their Santa trackers.

Using standard airspace monitoring tools, Santa’s tracked. If an aircraft doesn’t have a code, Gordinier said, NORAD can scramble jets to see who it is and what they’re doing.

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.

Alaska is usually his last stop before heading home, Gordinier said. All night, Shoup and his team fielded calls, giving kids details about Santa’s location as he and his reindeer flew through the sky to deliver gifts to children.

Miles of wire, dozens of computers and 157 telephone lines will greet hundreds of volunteers Thursday, The (Colorado Springs) Gazette reported.

There is also a Twitter account and Facebook page, as well as apps for Windows, Android and Apple mobile devices that have the same tracking information and games found on the website.

“We can’t wait to track you again this year and help the believers around the world follow your journey”.