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NORAD Celebrates Decades of Tracking Santa and Engages Volunteers for Christmas

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NORAD has been tracking Santa Claus's journey around the world for over 70 years, using radar, satellites, and jets, as part of a holiday tradition that started in 1955 when a misprinted phone number led children to call the military's command center, which then began tracking Santa as a fun holiday activity.

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