Track Santa Claus around the world with NORAD's flight tracker | WATCH LIVE

While nationalist anxieties person loomed implicit the Northeast amid imaginable drone sightings, 1 sighting volition soon bring vacation cheer crossed the country: Santa Claus.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command is erstwhile again prepared to way Santa and his reindeer astir the world.

NORAD, which is liable for protecting the skies implicit the United States and Canada, activates its Santa tracking strategy astatine 6 a.m. ET connected Christmas Eve. Santa watchers tin travel his travel connected NORAD's website oregon they tin telephone the bid halfway astatine 1-877-HI-NORAD (1-877-446-6723) to enactment successful the yearly Christmas tradition.

The tracking work tin besides beryllium accessed done the NORAD Tracks Santa app, societal media, Amazon Alexa, OnStar and SiriusXM, according to NORAD.

This is the 69th twelvemonth NORAD has tracked Santa's yuletide travel astir the world. It started by accident, according to NORAD's website, successful 1955 erstwhile a section paper advertisement informed children they could telephone Santa straight - lone the interaction fig was misprinted. Instead of ringing Old Saint Nick, a kid called the Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center successful Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Air Force Col. Harry Shoup, who answered the child's call, was speedy to recognize the mistake and assured the kid helium was Santa, according to the website. After much calls, Shoup assigned an serviceman to reply the calls, "and a contented was born." That contented continued erstwhile NORAD was formed successful 1958.

The Santa tracker tract receives millions of visitors from astir the satellite each year, according to NORAD, and volunteers typically reply much than 130,000 calls.

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