On Dec. 24 each year, Norad conducts one of its most important missions: tracking Santa as he delivers presents to children around the world.
The Norad Tracks Santa Website is available in eight languages and features games, music and videos.
Founded in 1958, Norad is headquartered in Colorado and has installations across the U.S. and Canada., the annual Santa-tracking tradition began by accident in 1955 due to a phone number typo in a newspaper ad. When a child dialed it in the hopes of speaking with Santa, they actually got the on-duty commander of what was then known as the Continental Air Defense Command in Colorado Springs.
Quick to realize the mistake, U.S Air Force Colonel Harry Shoup assured the child that they were speaking to the big man himself. Calls kept coming in, and Shoup assigned an officer to answer them, creating a tradition that continued when Norad was formed with Canada. While Norad admits its fighter jets can't keep up with something that travels "faster than starlight," it has learned a great deal over nearly seven decades of monitoring the"Based on flight profile data gathered from Norad's radar and satellite tracking, Norad concludes that Santa probably stands about 5 feet 7 inches [170 cm] tall and weighs approximately 260 pounds [118 kilograms] ," Norad explains.
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