Santa Tracking Online – NORAD Unveils Upgraded Web Site with Interactive Tracking and Information on Santa Claus

While the NORAD Santa Tracking online has become something of a tradition each year with animated video of Santa Claus in flight, this year the website has really upped their game incorporating new technology and details, including secret Santa Files from NORAD HQ.

The upgraded Santa Tracker site includes games every day at the North Pole village, an advent calendar arcade, Christmas music files, a library all about Santa and Christmas traditions around the world, and much more.

The new site does so much more than just show you where Santa is during his one-night ride around the globe.

The tracking of Santa by NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) goes back over 50 years go 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement misprinted the telephone number for children to call Santa. Instead of reaching Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief’s operations “hotline.”

The Director of Operations at the time, Colonel Harry Shoup, had his staff check the radar for indications of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Children who called were given updates on his location, and a tradition was born.

Three years later when Canada and the United States joined to create bi-national air defense command for North America called the North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD), and the new agency continued the tradition of tracking Santa.

For those concerned about budget, know that men, women, family and friends of NORAD have selflessly volunteered their time to personally respond to phone calls and emails from children all around the world – and the same is true for the NORAD Santa Tracking web site.

The NORAD Tracks Santa program is made possible by volunteers and through the generous support of corporate licensees who bear virtually all of the costs.

Today the tracking of Santa Claus incorporates the use of Radar, Satellites, SantaCams and even Fighter Jet escorts. See for yourself at http://www.noradsanta.org/.