You can follow the movement of Santa Claus with gifts in real time
In the United States, there is a system for tracking Santa Claus, which is represented by employees of the North American Aerospace Defense Command. You can follow Santa's journey around the world on the NORAD website. In addition, employees of the North American Aerospace Defense Command have opened a hotline: you can call the command center at 1-877-HI-NORAD (1-877-446-6723). You may ask where Santa is currently with gifts.
There are also applications that perform the same functions. These are NORAD Tracks Santa, Amazon Alexa, OnStar and the Bing search engine.
The cold coming from the Arctic, which disrupted air traffic in the United States, will not interfere with the Christmas arrival of Santa Claus. For 67 years, NORAD, a US-Canadian unit based at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, has provided images and information about Santa's holiday journey around the world.
The tradition of tracking Santa's holiday flight first began in 1955 due to a typo made by a newspaper in Colorado Springs. Instead of a department store, the telephone number where children could call and talk to Santa Claus actually belonged to the Continental Air Defense Command.
However, the officer on duty took calls from children and assured them that Santa Claus, also known in other parts of the world as Father Christmas or St. Nicholas, was already in the air and delivering gifts to good girls and boys on schedule, moving through the air on his sleigh, pulled by reindeer.
Santa Claus does not file an official flight plan, so the military can never be sure whether he has taken off or his exact route. However, real-time tracking of his flight began at 4 a.m. New York time.
Author Denis Cheredov
