In 1955, the North American Aerospace Defense Command set up a phone line for children asking about Santa. Read more to see where you can find out where Santa is delivering presents.For all the children fretting about whether or not Santa Claus is real, he is — at least, according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which has made it a yearly tradition to track Santa's route across the world as he delivers presents on his sleigh.
On Christmas Eve, a young child decided to call the line, and the Air Force Colonel who was working that night realized what went wrong. However, he wasn't going to disappoint the kid. Now, NORAD's operation has grown from a single Santa phone line to a complex tracking operation, which includes real-time location data about all the good children Lieutenant Sean Carter, a public-affairs officer who runs the NORAD Tracks Santa program, told Insider that the phones are operated by 1,500Volunteers usually answer over 130,000 calls a year, according to NORAD.
"When Santa takes off, and Rudolph's the lead there with red nose we're able to pick him up using a series of infrared satellites that are orbiting the Earth some 22,000 miles above the Earth," Wright told NPR."And so the heat signature that Rudolph's nose puts off we're able to detect using the satellite."