This photo illustration shows the NORAD logo on a cell phone screen while the tracker follows Santa flying over New York City on a computer monitor in Los Angeles on December 24, 2023.

Its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command, handled the project for three years before NORAD took over. Here's what to know as the tracker mapped out Santa's journey. From his starting ...

The online tracker has a running count of Santa’s gift deliveries. NORAD is also taking calls at a telephone hotline: 1-877-446-6723. The command warned on Tuesday that some callers were ...

Gen. Charles D. Luckey takes a call while volunteering at the NORAD Tracks Santa center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., Dec. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File ...

NORAD’s Santa Tracker, the beloved decades-old tradition of virtually following Santa Claus as he delivers gifts to children ...

And so those satellites track (Santa) through that heat source.” NORAD has an app and website, www.noradsanta.org, that will ...

responsible for monitoring and defending the skies above North America — shows NORAD's Santa Tracker. Credit: AP It started with a child’s accidental phone call in 1955. The Colorado Springs ...