It's been a holiday tradition since 1955 and the 2010 edition of the NORAD Santa Tracker is up an running. And yes, it even has an app for your phones as well.The tradition started as the result of a Colorado Springs, CO based Sears placing an advertisement in the local newspaper that included a phone number that kids could call to talk to Santa.
However, the number in the printed ad was incorrect. The calls meant for Santa ended up going to CONAD (the Continental Air Defense Command), the forerunner of NORAD.
On the night a December 24, 1955 the officer on duty that night, Colonel Harry Shoup, instructed his personnel to give all children who called in that night a current location for Santa oday it has morphed into the corporate sponsored NORAD Tracks Santa program which uses volunteers from Cheyenne Mountain and Peterson AFB. The program also has Facebook and Twitter pages and is responsible for the Santa reports you see included in your local news outlet's Christmas Eve weather forecasts.
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