Here's how to track Santa around the world, thanks to NORAD - CNN

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Santa Claus has packed his sleigh with toys for each the bully kids and helium has made definite the reindeer are secured for takeoff. Now, they are traveling astir the satellite to sojourn millions of households.

While you are waiting to perceive the jingle of bells successful the aerial that means Santa is near, the North American Aerospace Defense Command has a tracking strategy to amusement the jolly man’s advancement worldwide.

NORAD, which is liable for protecting the skies implicit the United States and Canada, activates its Santa tracking strategy astatine 6 a.m. ET connected Christmas Eve. People tin travel Santa’s travel astir the satellite connected NORAD’s website oregon they tin telephone the bid halfway astatine 1-877-HI-NORAD (1-877-446-6723).

A unrecorded operator, oregon a recording, volition springiness the caller Santa’s existent whereabouts, according to a November 30th quality merchandise from NORAD.

The tracking work tin besides beryllium accessed done the NORAD Tracks Santa app, societal media, Amazon Alexa, OnStar, and the Bing hunt engine, according to the quality release.

This is the 67th twelvemonth that NORAD has tracked Santa’s yuletide travel astir the world. It started by accident, according to NORAD’s website, successful 1955 erstwhile a section paper advertisement informed children they could telephone Santa straight – lone the interaction fig was misprinted.

“Instead of calling Santa, the kid called the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Operations Center successful Colorado Springs, Colo.,” says the website.

“Air Force Col. Harry Shoup, the commandant connected work that nighttime who answered the child’s telephone call, was speedy to recognize a mistake had been made and assured the kid helium was Santa. After much incoming calls, Shoup assigned a work serviceman to proceed answering calls and a contented was born, that continued erstwhile NORAD was formed successful 1958.”

Thus the contented was started, according to NORAD, and they person carried it connected for decades since. Millions of families and children astir the satellite person utilized the tracking work to show Santa’s whereabouts, according to NORAD.