Santa Norad Tracker In Usa 2010 And Histroy

Fifty-five years, an error in a newspaper advertisement led to the creation of NORAD's Santa Tracker, an annual tradition that has delighted children of all ages every Christmas Eve.

On December 24, 1955, a Sears department store, put an ad in Colorado Springs Santa Trackernewspaper. The announcement instructed children to call Santa Claus and included a local phone number. However, the number printed on the notice in error was the main number for Continental U.S. Air Force Air Defense Command (CONADE) Center. After several calls, Colonel Harry Shoup, who was the officer on duty that night, had an idea. Shoup told his staff to give all children called the "Current Location "to Santa Claus. A tradition that began when the then North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) CONAD replaced in 1958.

Today, NORAD relies on volunteers to make the program possible. Many volunteers are employed in Cheyenne Mountain and Peterson Air Force Base. Each volunteer attends phone calls about forty per hour, and the team typically handles more than 12,000 emails and more than 70,000 phone calls over two hundred countries and territories. Most of these contacts occur during the twenty-five hours from 2 am on December 24 until 3 am MST Dec. 25.