NORAD mission-ready with new Santa tracking app [Video]

Santa won’t be stopped by the pandemic. He’ll be delivering presents on Christmas Eve, just like he always does, and a team of volunteers will be tracking his global location, just like they do every year. Although a reduced number of volunteers will be available to talk to children directly, NORAD Tracks Santa has come up with several innovative ways to share Santa’s whereabouts.

NORAD has been tracking Santa’s movement since 1955 when Colonel Harry Shoup answered the first phone call on a top-secret line. A mother had seen a SEARS advertisement in a Colorado Springs newspaper and dialed the number for her little girl to call and talk to Santa. In a twist of fate, the advertisement accidentally listed one wrong digit in the phone number, so instead of calling the local SEARS Department Store, the number rang into the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD), the predecessor of NORAD, also based in …