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The map tracking Santa's trip around the world will begin Christmas Eve from NORAD, a joint U.S.-Canada command responsible for protecting the skies over both nations. Visitors can track Santa's ...
For decades, Norad has swapped its usual airspace monitoring duties to answer children’s questions about Santa’s journey and his astonishing present-delivery operation.
Various Christmas-themed games, quizzes and a family guide are available on Google's Santa Tracker. USA TODAY will also live stream Santa's journey beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday. You can watch it below:
Although NORAD claims to use radar and other technologies to track Santa, the website merely simulates the tracking of Santa. [5] The program follows the tradition of the September 1897 editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" in the New York Sun. [6] [7] and was an inspiration of the Google Santa Tracker, which launched in December ...
The 2018 Google Santa Tracker page also allowed users to use the Google Assistant to simulate a call to Santa or listen to a Christmas story. [11] The website had 42.2 million visitors in December of that year. [12] The website claimed that Santa had delivered 5.6 billion presents in 2019. [13]
While public anxieties have loomed over the Northeast amid possible drone sightings, one sighting will soon bring holiday cheer across the country: Santa Claus.
The tracker relies on radar technology and satellites to keep tabs on Santa, according to NORAD, which notes those methods are the same ones the agency employs to protect skies over North America.
In a recent interview with the AP, Air Force Lt. Gen. Case Cunningham explained that NORAD radars in Alaska and Canada —- known as the northern warning system — are the first to detect Santa.