NORAD is still on the job

December 24, 1955 –
NORAD tracked Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition,

thanks to a misprinted phone number in a Sear’s retail catalogue, on this date.

For the first several years, it was run by the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Center. (Psst bunkies don’t worry – Even though the ex-president believed that NORAD was part of the deep state, NORAD continues to track Santa’s progress.)

And so it goes.