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Dec. 18th, 2004 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingSanta to get fighter escort
NORAD plans to sent two CF-18 fighters to escort Santa on Christmas eve, as well as providing real-time photos and radar tracking on
http://www.noradsanta.com/
NORAD, jointly operated by the United States and Canada, has been tracking Santa for 50 years, ever since a newspaper in Colorado mistakenly printed a number for a "Santa Hotline".
The number turned out to be the operations hotline for NORAD headquarters in the state where tense radar operators were hunched over their radar screens on a cold night at the beginning of the Cold War.
"Needless to say, the military personnel on duty were very surprised to hear small children's voices on the operations hotline asking to speak to Santa," the release said.
The senior officer told childrens he could see Santa heading south from the North Pole, starting a tradition that has now endured for half a century.
NORAD plans to sent two CF-18 fighters to escort Santa on Christmas eve, as well as providing real-time photos and radar tracking on
http://www.noradsanta.com/
NORAD, jointly operated by the United States and Canada, has been tracking Santa for 50 years, ever since a newspaper in Colorado mistakenly printed a number for a "Santa Hotline".
The number turned out to be the operations hotline for NORAD headquarters in the state where tense radar operators were hunched over their radar screens on a cold night at the beginning of the Cold War.
"Needless to say, the military personnel on duty were very surprised to hear small children's voices on the operations hotline asking to speak to Santa," the release said.
The senior officer told childrens he could see Santa heading south from the North Pole, starting a tradition that has now endured for half a century.