For the 60th year NORAD will allow children from all around the world to track Santa‘s progress on Christmas Eve.

The yearly mission for NORAD (North American Defense) began when the government agency was not even in existence in its current form. It was 1955 when a phone call came in at the Continental Air Defense Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado. That phone call was placed by a child who wanted to talk to Santa based on an ad in a newspaper with a misprinted phone number.

Sixty years later NORAD uses the latest technology to track the annual trip around the world Santa makes to deliver gifts to good boys and girls. Watch the video below about how the NORAD Santa tracker began and grew over the decades.

Children can go to noradsanta.org to do more than track Santa’s trip on Christmas Eve. There are games, videos, they can explore the North Pole Village and much more.

From all of us here at Bloomington-Normal’s #1 Country, B104, MERRY CHRISTMAS!

By: Buck Stevens