NORAD chalks up another successful year tracking Santa

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SAN ANTONIO (AFPN) --  North American Aerospace Defense Command officials wrapped up another successful year of tracking Santa on his annual trip to homes around the world, according to NORAD officials.

The 756 volunteers answered 65,355 phone calls between 2 a.m. Christmas Eve and 2 a.m. Christmas Day, said Maj. Stacia Reddish, NORAD's Track Santa project officer.

NORAD volunteers received calls from every state in the U. S., with the most callers phoning in from Texas, California and Florida.

"All of those poor states with no snow," Major Reddish said.

Between Nov. 17 and Dec. 31, the NORAD Tracks Santa Web site, www.noradsanta.org, received 907,958,865 hits from 210 countries and territories around the world. Those viewers will have more to look forward to on the Web site for Christmas 2007.

"We always try to set Santa cams up over an additional major city each year, so we have additional video trails for the kids to look at," Major Reddish said.

With 51 years of tracking Santa under its belt, NORAD is always planning ahead to make the next holiday season more enjoyable than the last.

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