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How a typo and calls to a top secret phone number started the Santa Tracker tradition

Santa Tracker began with a phone call to Colonel Harry Shoup




In early December 1955, the phone rang at an air base in Colorado Springs. The officers on the watch floor of the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) – who were defending the skies above the US and Canada – stiffened.



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Publish date : 2024-12-23 16:30:00

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