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The tracker relies on radar technology and satellites to keep tabs on Santa, according to NORAD, which notes those methods are the same ones the agency employs to protect skies over North America.
Visitors can track Santa's flight from 4 a.m. to midnight MST. Trackers worldwide can also call 1-877-HI-NORAD (1-877-446-6723) on Dec. 24 to ask live operators about Santa's location from 6 a.m ...
Starting on Christmas Eve, families can track Santa Claus' location through NORAD's Santa Tracker.
It started with a child’s accidental phone call in 1955. The Colorado Springs newspaper printed a Sears advertisement that encouraged children to call Santa, listing a phone number. A boy called. But he reached the Continental Air Defense Command, now NORAD, a joint U.S. and Canadian effort to spot potential enemy attacks.
How do Norad track Santa? We are pausing our live coverage – Merry Christmas! 11:20, Tara Cobham. ... Santa is now in the UK as he just left Cardiff and is on his way now to Durham.
A rare addition to Santa’s story. NORAD’s tradition is one of the few modern additions to the centuries-old Santa story that have endured, according to Gerry Bowler, a Canadian historian who spoke to the AP in 2010. Ad campaigns or movies try to “kidnap” Santa for commercial purposes, said Bowler, who wrote “Santa Claus: A Biography.”
Between 2007 and 2008, people who visited the NORAD Tracks Santa site were told they could track Santa in Google Earth. [26] They were given a link to download Google Earth, and then a KMZ file to download. From 2009 to 2011, the tracking in the Google Earth app was moved to the Google Earth Web API on the NORAD Santa website.
You can also track Santa through NORAD's hotline with Verizon at 1-877-446-6723. Volunteers typically answer over 130,000 calls from Santa scouts around the world. Google