#How to track Santa’s sleigh ride on NORAD on Christmas Eve

You better leave some milk and cookies for Santa Claus — because he’s en route to your house.

If you’ve ever wanted to track Old St. Nick yourself to see where your PSPs and Barbie Dream Houses are on the map, here’s your chance.

While the new coronavirus variant Omnicron has canceled travel plans for many, it won’t stop Santa from traveling from the North Pole.

Once again, the North American Aerospace Defense Command is back to track his journey around the globe.

NORAD will kick off its online Santa radar at 2 a.m. MT on Christmas Eve. Naughty and nice children can track him on the NORAD website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and the NORAD Tracks Santa mobile app.

To reach the NORAD Tracks Santa Operation Center for any questions or concerns regarding the fat man in a red suit, viewers can call 1-877-466-6723 or send an email to [email protected]. A staff member will give you Santa’s most recent location.

It’s a fun story of how the Santa Tracker program came to be. It all started in 1955 in Colorado Springs when Sears put out an ad in the newspaper to allow kids to call a phone number so they could chat with Santa.

However, the wrong number was printed and the calls reached the Continental Air Defense Command, NORAD’s precursor. The officer on duty realized what was happening and told his deputies and his troops to start tracking Santa Claus and began telling the kiddies where he was headed during the long winter night.

“While the tradition of tracking Santa began purely by accident, NORAD continues to track Santa,” the aerospace control organization website notes.

They added, “We’re the only organization that has the technology, the qualifications, and the people to do it. And, we love it! NORAD is honored to be Santa’s official tracker!”

Here’s what watchers should keep an eye out for: Per NORAD intelligence, Kris Kringle is about 16 centuries old, weighs a jolly 260 pounds and is 5-foot-7.