Mariana Wagner

NORAD TRACKS SANTA 2008 – Peterson AFB Colorado Springs, CO

NORAD TRACKS SANTA 2008 – Peterson AFB, Colorado Springs, CO

The Colorado Springs Real Estate Connection’s Kristen Senn (Colorado Springs Military Relocation Specialist) answers the age-old question:

Where’s Santa?

That’s the question all the kids want to know on Christmas Eve.

About NORAD – “NORAD is the bi-national U.S.-Canadian military organization responsible for the aerospace and maritime defense of the United States and Canada.” (NoradSanta.org) Because of the large amount of of high tech monitoring devices that they have, NORAD is the BEST resource for finding out WHERE that Jolly Man will be this Christmas.

NORAD Tracks Santa – History

A little history about this tradition…..NORAD has been tracking Santa since 1955 when a wrong phone number placed in local Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement had all the local kids in Colorado Springs calling NORAD to talk to Santa. The calls came into the Commander-in-Chief’s operations hotline and instead of telling them they had the wrong number he had the staff start checking the radar for his location from the North Pole.

Every year since 1955, local volunteers meet at the secret NORAD center to track Santa and answer that very popular question via phone and email for the millions of boys and girls from around the world.  Last year my husband and 2 boys volunteered to track Santa for a few hours on Christmas Eve and it’s an experience they will never forget and they are looking forward to doing again in a couple of days.

NORAD – Christmas 2008

This year the NORADSANTA.ORG website feature tracking in 7 different languages. You can track Santa in 3d via Google Earth, via your cell phone, an iGoogle Gadget, and then there is Bitz the Twittering Elf who is keeping us updated through…you guessed it, Twitter.

Track Santa With NORAD this Christmas

December 22nd, 2008 by Mariana Wagner | Leave A Comment

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