NORAD Santa Tracker Returns for 55th Year

The North American Aerospace Defense Command is launching its Santa tracker for the fifty-fifth consecutive year and has launched the NORAD Santa website to help people track Santa Claus. The website will feature rotating holiday games and activities, and on December 24th, will feature videos captured from Santa Cams along Santa’s journey. At midnight MST on December 24th, Santa will go through his check list and begin his journey and children can track his sleigh ride with up-to-the-minute map updates from Google Maps and Google Earth on NORAD Tracks Santa website.

This year, children are able to track Santa through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and TroopTube. To follow us on these Santa-tracking tools, type in “@noradsanta” into the search engine to start your tracking.

The tradition of tracking Santa began in 1958 and was inspired by a child who had called a misprinted number in an advertisement to the Contental Air Defense Command Operations Center in Colorado in 1955. The commander on duty gave the child the request information on where Santa is and his progress on his journey around the world.