US Forces Command “Last night 11:30 Santa was flying over Seoul”

There was news that Santa’s grandfather was visiting Seoul last night.

This is the content of the US North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) at 11:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve yesterday (24th).

The command’s tracking Twitter account for Santa Claus said that a sleigh led by a reindeer is heading towards Seoul, the capital of Korea.

I stopped by Japan just before and then came straight to Korea.

At 11:55, 20 minutes later, an article was posted saying that he was heading for China.

This is an account that tracks a virtual Santa, not a real Santa.

What made NORAD track Santa’s location?

The beginning goes back 65 years.

According to CNN, in 1955, a department store in the U.S. launched an advertisement with the phrase “Speak to Santa” ahead of Christmas.

However, I accidentally wrote down the number from NORAD’s predecessor, Continental Air Defense Command.

The ad was printed unmodified, with the wrong number, and eventually led to a child’s phone call.

The night before Christmas, Captain Harry Suf of the US Air Force answered the call to the child asking for Santa’s location.

“I’m not Santa, but I can track where I am with radar,” he said.

So that night, Colonel Suf received a lot of phone calls and told the children where Santa was.

Starting with this, NORAD has been holding events to inform children of Santa’s location before Christmas.

The fictitious Santa location can be found through the Santa tracking website (www.noradsanta.org).

“The heat from Rudolph’s red nose allows us to track its location through infrared signals,” NORAD explains to children.

Santa is currently passing through the skies of Alabama, USA as of 1:30 p.m. that day.

The NORAD Santa website says, “So far, Santa has handed out about 5.8 billion gifts.”