# Follow Santa's Progress tonight

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-santas-progress-tonight/337088>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 24, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-santas-progress-tonight/337088 "2005-12-24T17:50:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-santas-progress-tonight/337088/1 "2005-12-24T17:50:31Z")

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NORAD is again tracking Santa Claus throughout his journey tonight. As I post, the most recent sighting was over the Taj Mahal, and he is “a few minutes ahead of schedule.”

You can follow his progress here: [http://www.noradsanta.org/index.php](http://www.noradsanta.org/index.php)

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**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-santas-progress-tonight/337088/2 "2005-12-24T21:47:54Z")

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He’s in Italy now.

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**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-santas-progress-tonight/337088/3 "2005-12-24T23:04:36Z")

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Now, if there was onlt a way we could feed that data to a couple of Sidewinder missiles 😉

“Roger NORAD, splash one Bogey, returning to base with Venison…”  
😉

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-santas-progress-tonight/337088/4 "2005-12-24T23:07:58Z")

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[Google Earth](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/this-just-in.html) is doing something cool tracking-wise this year, too. Very cute for the kiddies. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2005, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-santas-progress-tonight/337088/5 "2005-12-24T23:11:41Z")

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> [@MacTech](#):
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> Now, if there was onlt a way we could feed that data to a couple of Sidewinder missiles 😉
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> “Roger NORAD, splash one Bogey, returning to base with Venison…”  
> 😉

[Here ya’ go!](http://www.unit.org.uk/secure/) The password is “buffalo”, without the quotation marks, of course.

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**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/follow-santas-progress-tonight/337088/6 "2005-12-25T03:59:29Z")

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He’s over New York right now, headed toward Quebec. _Au revoir_, Santa!

I’ve always thought this was cool of NORAD to do every year. 🙂