Did you ever want to keep an eye is where Santa is right now? You now have the ability too, The Fantastic NORAD Santa Tracker website allows you to watch and track Santa where he is right now.
It is Christmas Eve, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has a very serious responsibility: tracking the whereabouts of Santa Claus.
The man in red has begun his annual trek around the globe.
Over 900 volunteers are manning 100 phone lines and 20 computers at the Santa Tracking Operations Center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, answering phone calls and e-mails from children worldwide.
From the NORAD Santa site:
"For more than 50 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (Conad) have tracked Santa. The tradition began after a Colorado Springs-based Sears, Roebuck & Co.. Store advertisement for children to call Santa on a special" hotline "included an inadvertently misprinted telephone number. Instead of Santa, the phone number put kids through to the Conad Commander-in-Chief's operations" hotline. "The Director of Operations, Colonel Harry Shoup, received the first" Santa "call on Christmas Eve 1955. realizing what had happened, Colonel Shoup had his staff check radar data to see if there was any indication of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Indeed there were signs of Santa and children who called were given an update on Santa's position . Thus, the tradition was born. In 1958, the Governments of Canada and the United States created a bi-national air defense command for the North American continent called the North American Air Defense Command, known as NORAD. Canada and the U.S. believed they could better Defend North America together as a team instead of separately.
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