HTN: Tracking Santa

Members of the New York Air National Guard are on duty as the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) prepares to track Santa's annual trip around the world. Members at the Northeast Air Defense Sector in Rome, NY, stay on-duty around the clock tracking the jolly old elf's journey across the eastern half of the U.S. As part of NORAD, NEADS uses radar, satellites, Santa Cams and fighter jets to track Santa. The Santa tracking tradition started in 1955, after a Sears Roebuck and Co. ad for children to call Santa misprinted the phone number. Instead of reaching Santa, the children reached the Continental Air Defense Command's Commander In Chief's operations hotline. The NORAD Tracks Santa website is: http://www.noradsanta.org.