Technology makes tracking Santa Claus as easy as entering a few key strokes and clicking through a few screens.
Photo courtesy of NORAD
The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, is tracking the big man is red from Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado.
NORAD, which was established by the governments of Canada and the United States, has been tracking the jolly old elf since its formation in 1958. Prior to that, the military organization’s predecessor, CONAD, tracked Santa since the Sears Roebuck & Co. inadvertently encouraged children to call the CONAD Commander-in-Chief’s operations hotline in 1955. Col. Harry Shoup, according to NORAD, had his staff check for indications of Santa and gave children his current location.
NORAD utilizes its high-tech equipment, including radar, satellites, Santa Cams and even fighter jets, to monitor Claus’ movement, NORAD reports.
The North Warning System alerts the military when the international traveler takes off using 47 installations strung across the northern border of North America.
Once NORAD confirms take-off, the agency’s cutting-edge technology does the rest.
And once he arrives in North America, Canadian fighter pilots greet Santa Claus, NORAD reports. When he crosses the border into the United States, a few lucky American NORAD pilots fly alongside his sleigh and tiny reindeer,
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