NORAD Tracks Santa
NORAD Tracks Santa is an annual Christmas-themed program in which NORAD simulates the tracking of Santa Claus, who is said to leave the North Pole to travel around the world on his mission to deliver presents to children every year on Christmas Eve.[1][2][3] The program starts on December 1, but the actual Santa-tracking simulation starts on midnight of December 23. It is a community outreach function of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and has been held annually since 1955.[1]
NORAD Tracks Santa Media
The 1955 Sears ad with, according to legend, the misprinted telephone number that led to the NORAD Tracks Santa program
Harry Shoup, the Santa Colonel
NORAD volunteers answering phone calls in 2007
Screenshot of the live NORAD Tracks Santa web page, 2023
First Lady Michelle Obama reacts while talking on the phone to children across the country as part of NORAD Tracks Santa 2016.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 [web.archive.org/web/2011122418… "Why we track Santa"]. NORAD. Archived from [www.noradsanta.org/en/whytrack… the original] on December 24, 2011.
{{cite web}}: Check|archive-url=value (help); Check|url=value (help) - ↑ [www.newsline360.com/noradsanta… "NORAD is Ready to Track Santa's Flight"]. Press release. November 29, 2017. www.newsline360.com/noradsanta…. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
- ↑ Hughes, Trevor (December 23, 2017). [www.usatoday.com/story/news/20… "All eyes to the skies to track Santa's Christmas Eve flight"]. USA Today. www.usatoday.com/story/news/20…. Retrieved December 19, 2018.