'Well, the radio stations would call him like every hour and say, 'Where's Santa now?'" Van Keuren said. "Next thing you know, Dad had called the radio station and had said, 'This is the commander at the Combat Alert Center, and we have an unidentified flying object. On Christmas Eve, the airmen added Santa's sleigh to the glass board the command center used to track flights over the United States.
When the calls continued, Shoup began staffing the line with airmen to answer for Santa. Although initially annoyed by the call, Shoup played along, his children told Stor圜orps. Shoup was surprised when a small voice on the other line asked for Santa. So when the phone rang one day that December, Col.
"Only a four-star general at the Pentagon and my dad had the number," Van Keuren told Stor圜orps when she and her siblings visited recently to share the story of how the Santa tracking program began. Terri Van Keuren, one of Shoup's daughters, recalls that red phone being an important one. But rather than being a direct line to the North Pole, the misprinted number instead connected to a telephone on the desk of the Continental Air Defense Command's director of operations, Col. ran an advertisement in a Colorado Springs-area newspaper with a phone number that children could call to speak with Santa. But not everyone knows that this popular Christmas tradition began over 50 years ago with a typo in a Colorado newspaper ad. We salute you for your continuous support.Every year, millions of children follows Santa Claus' journey around the world with the NORAD Santa Tracker, which uses military radar to track Santa's flight as he delivers gifts to all the good little boys and girls. We will keep working at improving our app in every way we can. Your suggestions are always valuable to us. We will also take your advice and try eliminating places that are too unfamiliar. With the new version, you will see a lot of improvements including Santa behaving in a more realistic way once he takes off. Thank you for your kind words and recommendations.
#SANTA TRACKER UPDATE#
I hope that when we get past Christmas i can update my star rating from 4, to five. I am a blind person reliant on voiceover and in the before the update it was hard for me to hear the locations due to the way the voice on my phone pronounces unfamiliar place names. I have noticed 1 already, it was good to see Santa in Dublin, a place we have all heard of lol. I will wait to see what differences i notice. We have had an update a few hours ago which brings a brand new version. Wish there were some jingling sleigh bell sounds in the mix. Once we got to midnight Xmas eve uk time he made his drop then he was back sleeping in the North Pole again. The last time i used it on Xmas eve his journey started on 18th December. It doesn’t correspond with the image of Santa and how he operates. The only time he is in the North Pole is at night when he sleeps. It tells you Santa is feeding reindeer etc but you never hear of him in the workshop. We will see how it goes, some more improvements spring to mind.
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