It starts with NORAD’s radar system, the same radars which are employed year-round to defend Canada and the United States. The radar detects the launch of Santa’s sleigh from the North Pole.

With December 25 in just two days, modern technology is set to bring festive cheer by allowing eager children and adults alike to track Santa Claus as he embarks on his global gift-giving journey.

We just track him!” The Norad tracker can be accessed here. Norad claims to be able to track Santa using an expert radar system called the North Warning System, which can detect when he has ...

NORAD also has an online tracker for children to watch Santa travel across the world in real-time. This year’s website launched on December 1, and it currently shows a village in the North Pole ...

For more than 65 years, NORAD ... of tracking Santa began in 1955 when a young child accidentally dialed the unlisted phone number of the CONAD Operations Center upon seeing an newspaper advertisement ...