The NORAD Christmas tracker seems to be down as users are not able to follow Santa on his journey.
We just track him!" NORAD coordinates with Santa’s Elf launch staff to confirm his launch time, but from that point on, Santa calls the shots. He's just getting started!”
With tracking tools like the NORAD Santa Tracker and Google's Santa Tracker, everyone can follow Santa's journey this Christmas Eve.
Santa Claus has packed his sleigh with toys for all the good kids and he has made sure the reindeer are secured for takeoff. Now, they are traveling around ...
Thus the tradition was started, according to NORAD, and they have carried it on for decades since. Harry Shoup, the commander on duty that night who answered the child’s phone call, was quick to realize a mistake had been made and assured the child he was Santa. After more incoming calls, Shoup assigned a duty officer to continue answering calls and a tradition was born, that continued when NORAD was formed in 1958.” Now, they are traveling around the world to visit millions of households. Millions of families and children around the world have used the tracking service to monitor Santa’s whereabouts, according to NORAD. ET on Christmas Eve.
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It didn’t stop there: Shoup decided that it would be fun to give the children calling in information on Santa’s trip around the world. They can follow Santa’s progress around the world through social media or the official NORAD Santa Tracking website: He grabbed a nearby airman and told him to answer the calls as Santa Claus. The phone number advertised was off by a single digit, so instead of calling the North Pole, children were actually calling what we now know as NORAD. How had the child gotten a highly-classified number? The call was coming in on a top-secret line, which could only mean one thing.
The NORAD Santa tracker is now live! For the 67th year, children can track Santa Claus as he delivers presents around the globe this Christmas Eve.
NORAD's mission is to watch the skies above North America for any potential threats. (Santa has been up for hours.) Santa is now over the Solomon Islands," NORAD wrote on its Facebook page at 7:30 a.m. You can also email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) for the latest. NORAD's Santa Tracker lets families watch Father Christmas in 3D as he transits the South Pacific, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. NORAD's array of geostationary satellites above the Earth monitor the journey. That's the word from the joint U.S.-Canadian military operation that for 67 years has been tracking Jolly Old St.