It's almost Christmas and everyone's favorite jolly elf will soon be traveling around the
world so today I think we should talk about how you can track Santa on Christmas Eve
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For centuries dating back to the 1600's Santa Claus has performed a big job on Christmas Eve
he has just a few short hours to deliver presents all over the world lucky for him
he actually gets 36 hours to do this thanks to the difference in time zones
now even with that extra time many people don't really understand how he travels so fast
sure the reindeer pulled the sleigh but the sleigh itself is an amazing piece of technology
Santa's sleigh can create something called relativity clouds a concept discovered by Albert
Einstein which allows him to move extremely fast while time around him moves extremely slow
for decades now the us military has been tracking Santa and his secret technology
to try to understand exactly how he does it for many years it was a secret project but in 1948 the
US Air Force publicly disclosed they were tracking Santa on Christmas eve and issued their first
public Santa location report it wasn't until a few years later when kids started catching on that
they could ask the military where Santa was and get an up-to-date report on his current location
In 1955 a company named Sears accidentally published a phone number
to the Continental Air Defense Command, or CONAD, and told kids they could call in for
Christmas to ask about Santa when they called Colonel Harry Shoup answered and was forced
to start providing updates by phone to all the kids calling in asking where Santa was
In 1958 the operation was taken over by the North America Air Defense Command, or NORAD,
but it wasn't until 1981 when NORAD eventually started publishing the phone number themselves
and finally agreed to be the official Santa tracking organization
These days NORAD handles 12,000 emails and over 100,000 phone calls from more than 200
countries the operation became so big and popular that they set up their own website
called noradsanta.org where kids can track Santa's position on their own last year their website had
8.9 million visitors and this year even during the pandemic NORAD will still be tracking Santa
whether you're on Santa's naughty or nice list check out his location at noradsanta.org
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