The holiday season has arrived and Santa’s elves have taken over the NORAD control room! Every holiday season, they come down from the North Pole to help NORAD Track Santa. Get an inside look at the command center in action as the man in red takes flight to practice for the big night. Be sure to track Santa with NORAD on December 24th. | NORAD Tracks Santa

Have you heard of the NORAD Santa Tracker? It's the North American Aerospace Defense Command's annual program that tracks Santa's Christmas Eve journey around the world. Here's a classified secret: this beloved tradition only exists because a Sears newspaper ad printed the wrong phone number in 1955. When kids tried calling Santa, they accidentally reached a secret Cold War military command center instead. Luckily, the command center played along and started tracking Santa on their radar, launch