NORAD ready to track santa
Dec. 23rd, 2008 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yesthattomIn 1955, a Sears & Roebuck store in Colorado Springs, CO ran an advertisement announcing a hotline children could call to talk with Old Saint Nick himself. Because of a misprint, instead of connecting to Santa, callers were directed to the Commander-in-Chief’s Operations hotline at NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command--in other words, the infamous “red-phone.”
The person that answered the phone pretended to be Santa and handled every call.
Following this, NORAD started producing “tracking reports” for Santa. They announce official flight plan approvals at a press conference every year, they provide updates over the course of the night, etc. For the last few years they’ve even had a web site. For the last few years it has been a Google project, with Google Earth KML files, YouTube videos, etc.
This year’s web site is ready to roll: http://www.noradsanta.org/
(Oh, and this year you can track Santa from you mobile phone.)
The person that answered the phone pretended to be Santa and handled every call.
Following this, NORAD started producing “tracking reports” for Santa. They announce official flight plan approvals at a press conference every year, they provide updates over the course of the night, etc. For the last few years they’ve even had a web site. For the last few years it has been a Google project, with Google Earth KML files, YouTube videos, etc.
This year’s web site is ready to roll: http://www.noradsanta.org/
(Oh, and this year you can track Santa from you mobile phone.)
