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How old is Santa Claus? NORAD tracker reveals all on Christmas icon: Find out age, weight and height

How old is Santa Claus? NORAD tracker reveals all on Christmas icon: Find out age, weight and height

Published by Parlour News

How old is Santa Claus? And how tall is he? Have you ever had these questions? Well, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), famous for its Santa Tracker, revealed Santa’s age, weight, and height in its “About Santa FAQ”. Santa Claus’s age, weight, and height revealed(Unsplash) Santa Claus’s age, weight, and height Santa Claus is the iconic figure that we have learnt to associate with Christmas. This legendary character has gained worldwide popularity due to numerous pop culture references and extensive commercialization over the years. Although it is “hard to know for sure”, NORAD reports Santa Claus is at least 1,600 years old. Command analysts conclude that Santa is roughly 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 260 pounds based on flight profile data from radar, satellites, and numerous tracking sightings over more than 50 years. NORAD’s Santa tracker It was by coincidence that NORAD started tracking Santa. A child misdialed a printed phone number from a department shop advertisement in the local newspaper in 1955 while attempting to contact Santa. He called the …

NORAD’s Santa tracker was a Cold War morale boost. Now it attracts millions of kids

NORAD’s Santa tracker was a Cold War morale boost. Now it attracts millions of kids

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The Christmas tradition has become nearly global in scope: Children from around the world track Santa Claus as he sweeps across the earth, delivering presents and defying time. NORAD’s Santa tracker was a Cold War morale boost. Now it attracts millions of kids Each year, at least 100,000 kids call into the North American Aerospace Defense Command to inquire about Santa’s location. Millions more follow online in nine languages, from English to Japanese. On any other night, NORAD is scanning the heavens for potential threats, such as last year’s Chinese spy balloon. But on Christmas Eve, volunteers in Colorado Springs are fielding questions like, “When is Santa coming to my house?” and, “Am I on the naughty or nice list?” “There are screams and giggles and laughter,” said Bob Sommers, 63, a civilian contractor and NORAD volunteer. Sommers often says on the call that everyone must be asleep before Santa arrives, prompting parents to say, “Do you hear what he said? We got to go to bed early.” NORAD’s annual tracking of Santa has endured …

US-Canadian military agency ‘tracks’ Santa Claus on Christmas for 68th year

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The joint US-Canadian military monitoring agency has continued its decades-long Christmas tradition of tracking Santa’s whereabouts, helping children around the globe find out when his reindeer-powered, present-filled sleigh is coming to town. Representational Image A 3-D, interactive website at www.noradsanta.org showed Santa Claus and his reindeer on their imagined worldwide delivery route, allowing users to click and learn more about the various cities along the way. Wrap up the year gone by & gear up for 2024 with HT! Click here The Santa tracker presented by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) dates to 1955, when a Colorado newspaper advertisement printed a phone number to connect children with Santa but mistakenly directed them to the hotline for the military nerve center. To avoid disappointing the little ones, NORAD’s director of operations at the time, Colonel Harry Shoup, ordered his staff to check the radar to see where Old Saint Nick might be and update the children on his location. Sixty-eight years later NORAD is continuing the tradition of setting up a temporary call center …