{"id":56815,"date":"2017-12-24T20:08:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T20:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/12\/24\/for-62nd-year-norad-takes-calls-from-kids-awaiting-santa\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:48:22","slug":"for-62nd-year-norad-takes-calls-from-kids-awaiting-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2017\/12\/24\/for-62nd-year-norad-takes-calls-from-kids-awaiting-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"For 62nd year, NORAD takes calls from kids awaiting Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. \u2014 Hundreds of volunteers at an Air Force base in Colorado were answering questions on Sunday from eager children who wanted to know where Santa was on his Christmas Eve travels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NORAD Tracks Santa got underway early Sunday morning at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was the 62nd year for the wildly popular program run by the U.S. and Canadian militaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some key facts about the program:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HOW TO GET NORAD UPDATES:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The toll-free telephone number for NORAD tracks Santa is 877-Hi NORAD or 877-446-6723. About 1,500 volunteers answer the phones in shifts throughout Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The website is <a href=\"\/TEMP-LINK-TEMP\/\" title=\"\" class=\"selected-link\">www.noradsanta.org<\/a>, with updates offered in a number of languages in addition to English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Updates are also posted on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New this year, Amazon\u2019s voice-activated computer service Alexa will be relaying NORAD Tracks Santa updates through the Echo device once the function has been enabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/off-duty\/2017\/12\/20\/norad-adds-alexa-to-its-santa-tracking-toolkit\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-NORAD-122517.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">NORAD adds Alexa to its Santa-tracking toolkit<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Phone, email, Facebook, Twitter, Alexa &#8230; plenty of options to keep eyes on the jolly old elf.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HOW IT STARTED:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Colorado Springs newspaper ran an ad in 1955 inviting children to call Santa but mistakenly ran the phone number for the hotline at the Continental Air Defense Command, which was tasked with monitoring the skies for a possible nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. Children began calling and the CONAD staff happily played along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program is now run by CONAD\u2019s successor, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, a U.S.-Canadian command that monitors the skies over both countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2017\/10\/25\/air-force-says-santa-isnt-real-regrets-it-immediately\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Santa-Alaska-small.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Air Force says Santa isn&#8217;t real, regrets it immediately<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">A spirited Twitter spat between Air Force bases turned unexpectedly dark Wednesday when the Air Force\u2019s official Twitter account dropped a bombshell: Santa isn\u2019t real.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BY THE NUMBERS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, NORAD Tracks Santa received nearly 154,200 phone calls and drew 10.7 million unique visitors to its website. 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