On this site you can see just where Santa happens to be: NORAD Santa. My niece Katie has helped out Santa’s elves at NORAD for several years while she’s stationed with the Air Force in Colorado Springs, CO.

The story behind the NORAD tracking activity:

Sometimes a simple typo can lead to a Christmas miracle.

by David Goldman @DavidGoldmanCNN
December 24, 2015: 11:30 AM ET

60 years ago, a local Sears store in Colorado Springs ran a dial Santa ad. Except the number was a misprint. Instead of listing the number for Sears’ Santa hotline, it posted the number for the Continental Air Defense Command center.

On Christmas Eve 1955, Colonel Harry Shoup began receiving calls from kids asking to speak with Santa Claus. Shoup worked at the operations department for the air defense center, now known as NORAD, so the call must have come as a bit of a surprise.

Instead of telling the kids that they dialed the wrong number, Shoup said that he wasn’t Santa Claus but he could track him on radar. 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.

A tradition was born, and NORAD has opened up its phone lines for its annual Santa Tracker ever since. Last year, hundreds of volunteers, including many NORAD employees and Michelle Obama, fielded 135,000 calls from 234 countries. That’s 40 calls per volunteer per hour.

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