NORAD began to track Santa Claus in 1955, following an accidental phone call made to the agency by a young boy interested in in speaking with Kris Kringle.

Is this Santa Claus?” that tiny voice asked. “Dad’s pretty annoyed,” Shoup’s daughter Terri Van Keuren recalled in 2009. “He barks into the phone, demanding to know who’s calling. “The little voice is now crying,

NORAD is the most reliable name in Santa tracking. On the job since 1955, when a young child from Colorado Springs accidentally called in (he meant to call a number advertised by a local department store), they've been following Santa's journey using their radar technology ever since.