Wesley Fryer developed this podcast on one night sitting on the porch with other adult at a Scout Troop outing. He ended up sitting next to Stacia who actually with the Air Force Public Affairs Officier for 5 years at NORAD. Wesley had his digital recording device in hand and went into action.
It was a great story how NORAD got involved by accident to track Santa Clause. In 1958, a little boy called NORAD by accident. Colonel Shoup of NORAD received the message at the time. From that point on, NORAD tracked Santa and his reindeeer across their screens using DSP satellites. Corporations such as Google and U-Tube got involved. Plus, there were 1200 volunteers at one point who spent their time tracking Santa. Stacia said, "We always knew where Santa was."
This was a great story how NORAD got involved to track Santa! Wesley mentioned, "Google loves educating people." To me, this is exacting what they did. There is a related website to go along with the tracking of Santa, which is http://www.noradsanta.org/. This podcast includes technology, a little bit of history and imagination.
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