# NORAD Tracks Santa

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norad-tracks-santa/12261>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 24, 1999, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norad-tracks-santa/12261 "1999-12-24T17:57:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 1999, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norad-tracks-santa/12261/1 "1999-12-24T17:57:00Z")

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This site is really neat! They track Santa all over the world! Check it out!  
[http://www.noradsanta.org/](http://www.noradsanta.org/)

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**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 1999, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norad-tracks-santa/12261/2 "1999-12-25T06:35:00Z")

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I always provide a link to that site from mine every Christmas. It’s a tradition (2 years running).

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[http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/SantyGrin.gif](http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/SantyGrin.gif)

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I once lost my corkscrew and had to live on food and water for several days  
-W.C. Fields  
[http://members.tripod.com/~Bob\_Baloo/index.htm](http://members.tripod.com/~Bob_Baloo/index.htm)

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**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 1999, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norad-tracks-santa/12261/3 "1999-12-24T22:26:00Z")

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When I was a kid, there’d be an announcement at the beginning of the local news that NORAD had picked up a UFO coming from over the north pole. During the news, they would give updates, like “Beale AFB has just launched two F-106 interceptors to shoot down the UFO”.

You never saw little kids riveted to the evening news like that in your life. “They’re gonna shoot down Santa!” we’d wail.

As the news program was about to end, they’d cut to “live cockpit chatter”. They’d be right about to fire their missiles, vaporizing Santa, when they’d identify him and stand down. They would then provide escort rather than shoot him down. What an emotional roller coaster for a six-year-old!

–Baloo

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I once lost my corkscrew and had to live on food and water for several days  
-W.C. Fields  
[http://members.tripod.com/~Bob\_Baloo/index.htm](http://members.tripod.com/~Bob_Baloo/index.htm)

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**Author:** ![Suzeanne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Suzeanne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suzeanne)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 1999, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/norad-tracks-santa/12261/4 "1999-12-24T23:45:00Z")

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[http://www.santatracker.com/](http://www.santatracker.com/)

The Santa Tracker. Add this to your NORAD Christmas Eve viewing. My kids seem to enjoy this one a lot more.