USA – According to NORAD (North American Aerospace defense command) they will be tracking Santa this year even with the Government Shutdown. NORAD has given Santa tracking coverage since 1955. To follow the santa tracking check out NORAD webpage.
In the event of a government shutdown, NORAD will continue with its 63-year tradition of NORAD Tracks Santa on Dec. 24. Military personnel who conduct NORAD Tracks Santa are supported by approximately 1,500 volunteers who make the program possible each and every year. pic.twitter.com/fY0oyjrdDc
— NORAD & USNORTHCOM (@Norad_Northcom) December 21, 2018
Santa tracking by NORAD was originally a accident that happened because of a Sears ad misprint that gave a secret government red phone number to kids. According to NPR, The red phone rang one day in December 1955, and Shoup answered it, Pam says. “And then there was a small voice that just asked, ‘Is this Santa Claus?’ ”
His children remember Shoup as straight-laced and disciplined, and he was annoyed and upset by the call and thought it was a joke — but then, Terri says, the little voice started crying.
“And Dad realized that it wasn’t a joke,” her sister says. “So he talked to him, ho-ho-ho’d and asked if he had been a good boy and, ‘May I talk to your mother?’ And the mother got on and said, ‘You haven’t seen the paper yet? There’s a phone number to call Santa. It’s in the Sears ad.’ Dad looked it up, and there it was, his red phone number. And they had children calling one after another, so he put a couple of airmen on the phones to act like Santa Claus.”
SITE VISITS DONE@Santa is ready, @Norad_Northcom is ready …are you! #Christmas #Santa #SantaClaus #NORADTracksSanta pic.twitter.com/VK0oz2KiNd
— Ric Peterson (@RicPetersonShow) December 20, 2018
