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It began 70 years ago when a five-year-old called a top-secret emergency line reserved for the U.S. president and four-star generals and asked, "Hello, is this Santa?"

It was December 1955 — the height of the Cold War. The phone that rang was big and red, only to be used during an international emergency.

That wrong number — and many others that followed because of a simple typo in a newspaper ad — ended up launching a mission like none other for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD: to develop a tracking system allowing families to follow Santa's journey around the world.

Since then, the Santa Tracker has become a source of joy for millions of children.

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[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Heather Cox Richardson does, I think, a better job explaining it than this article: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-23-2025

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

That does make the process clearer, yes. Thank you.