NORAD Website Tracks Santa Throughout Tonight's Journey
Kids and adults can follow St. Nick's every move on his way to Woonsocket.
It’s Christmas Eve in Woonsocket — do you know where your supernatural gift-giver is? NORAD does. The North American Aerospace Defense Command, charged with, "ensuring air sovereignty and air defense of the airspace of Canada and the United States,” according to their web site, has been tracking Old Saint Nick for the last 50 years. In 1955, according to the site's about us page, a Sears Roebuck ad for kids to call Santa misprinted the number, sending them instead to the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD). The staff gave callers updates on Santa’s location, and they’ve been doing it every year since. They continued the tradition in 1958 when Canada and the US formed NORAD as a dual air monitoring system, updating the practice in …
