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As it does every year, NORAD, the North American Aerospace Command, tracked Santa on his trip around the world on Christmas Eve so children and families could see where he was.

That tradition continued when NORAD was formed in 1958. The Santa tracker site receives millions of visitors from around the world each year, according to NORAD, and volunteers typically answer ...

FILE – NORAD Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Charles D. Luckey takes a call while volunteering at the NORAD Tracks Santa center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., Dec. 24, 2014.

See Santa's location on the Google Santa Tracker In 2004, Google started tracking Santa as well, because, well, there's a lot of interest in Old St. Nick. Google has a website.

It starts with NORAD’s radar system, the same radars which are employed year-round to defend Canada and the United States. The radar detects the launch of Santa’s sleigh from the North Pole.

FILE – NORAD Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Charles D. Luckey takes a call while volunteering at the NORAD Tracks Santa center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., Dec. 24, 2014.

NORAD’s tradition is one of the few modern additions to the centuries-old Santa story that have endured, according to Gerry Bowler, a Canadian historian who spoke to the AP in 2010.

Kids and their parents in the US can dial 1-877-HI-NORAD (1-877-446-6723) to speak to Santa, according to Norad. Volunteers normally receive more than 130,000 calls each year. People can also ...