According to USA Today, the saloon was behind a locked door covered with a poster of John Wayne ... which changed to NORAD in 1958. By 1997, the Santa Tracker had gone digital, with close to ...

blending festive fun with state-of-the-art monitoring. The NORAD Santa Tracker has an unexpected origin story. In 1955, a Colorado Springs department store mistakenly printed the wrong phone ...

NORAD also has an online tracker for children to watch Santa travel across the world in real-time. This year’s website launched on December 1, and it currently shows a village in the North Pole ...

they always ask me about NORAD Tracks Santa," Mathias told CBS News in a 2023 interview. "It really has been amazing how it brings people together who maybe have no knowledge of the military." ...

The Santa Tracker combines NORAD’s state-of-the-art radar, satellites, jet fighters, and special “Santa Cams” to follow St. Nick’s journey across the globe. On Christmas Eve, a team of volunteers ...

Its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command, handled the project for three years before NORAD took over. Here's what to know as the tracker mapped out Santa's journey. From his starting ...

The tracking service can also be accessed through the NORAD Tracks Santa app, social media, Amazon Alexa, OnStar and SiriusXM, according to NORAD. This is the 69th year NORAD has tracked Santa's ...

And so those satellites track (Santa) through that heat source.” NORAD has an app and website, www.noradsanta.org, that will track Santa on Christmas Eve from 4 a.m. to midnight, mountain standard ...

Officers played along. Since then, NORAD Tracks Santa has gone global, receiving calls from around the world and posting updates on social media for millions of fans. NORAD also updates its ...

Santa Claus is comin' to town on Christmas Eve. But which ones and when? Families can track his journey with these websites and mobile apps.