Tuesday, December 22, 2015

How Santa Showed up on NORAD's Radar 60 Years Ago

Where's Santa?


NORAD's operations center, Colorado Springs, around 1961.

Sixty years ago this month an Air Force officer unwittingly started a Christmas tradition that continues to this day – NORAD's annual tracking of St. Nick on his worldwide rounds, Michael Beschloss reports on nytimes.com.

For more, including how even President Kennedy reassured a Michigan girl during the Cold War that all was well at the North Pole, according to Beschloss: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/upshot/how-santa-claus-ended-up-on-us-militarys-radar.html?smid=nytcore-iphone-share&smprod=nytcore-iphone

To track Santa: http://www.noradsanta.org/

Photo: tumblr.


Santa will soon be on his way.

Photo: Pinterest.

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