NORAD Tracks Santa is an annual Christmas-themed program in which NORAD tracks Santa Claus. The program starts on December 1, but the actual Santa-tracking starts at midnight annually on December 23. It is a community outreach function of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and has been held annually since 1955.
About NORAD Tracks Santa in brief
NORAD Tracks Santa is an annual Christmas-themed program in which NORAD tracks Santa Claus, who leaves the North Pole to travel around the world on his mission to deliver presents to children every year on Christmas Eve. The program starts on December 1, but the actual Santa-tracking starts at midnight annually on December 23. It is a community outreach function of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and has been held annually since 1955. Each year volunteers make possible possible updates to the program to get updates on Santa Claus’ supposed progress to the general public to get a number for the public to call to get an update on Santa’s progress. In 1981, NORAD openly published a hotline number for people to call on Santa to get updated updates on his progress. The number is: ME 2-6681. In 1958, the North America Air Defense Command took over the reporting responsibility from CONAD, and the reporting became more elaborate as the years passed. On December 24, 1960,NORAD claimed that the sleigh had made an emergency landing on the ice of Hudson Bay, where Royal Canadian Air Force interceptor aircraft claimed to have been intercepting Santa.
In 1961, RCAF planes were said to have escorted him when he resumed his journey after the front of his Dancer’s front foot had been injured. Eventually, the program was renamed NORAD, which was renamed North American aerospace Defense Command in 1981, after which it was no longer possible to make possible updates on the possible progress of Santa Claus. In 2012, the NORAD program was rebranded as NORAD Santa Tracks Santa, which is now run by NORAD Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 2013, the Santa Claus Tracks Santa program was relaunched as the Santa Tracker Program. The Santa Tracker program is run by the Santa Trackers Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Denver, Colorado, and is funded by donations from the Santa Tracking Foundation and other charitable foundations. In the U.S., the Santa tracker program was started by the American Foundation for Santa Claus Research and Education, which has raised more than $100 million for charity since the 1970s. In 2014, the organization raised $1.5 million for the Santa Tracks Foundation.
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