NORAD Tracks Santa Wiki



Welcome to the NORAD Tracks Santa Wiki

Track Santa Throughout the Year and Watch Two Decades of Santa Cam Videos !!

We are a community of volunteer internet-based journalists, historians, and archivists dedicated to gathering, archiving and disseminating information about Santa Tracking in general, the works of the NORAD Tracks Santa Program, and other Santa Tracking and Winter Holiday Wizard tracking websites and activities.

This site and wiki is NOT affiliated with NORAD, nor affiliated with the www.noradsanta.org website, nor affiliated with any of the NORAD Tracks Santa Program partners and corporate sponsors, nor affilated with any other Winter Holiday Wizard tracking websites, activities, partners and corporate sponsors.

This site uses publicly available information gathered by volunteer internet-based journalists, historians, and archivists of the NORAD Tracks Santa Program and other Santa Tracking and Winter Holiday Wizard tracking websites and activities.

A community of those who believe in the spirit of the Holiday Season and that this spirit is alive and well in one's heart !!

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articles since March 2010

Thanks to Lt.Col.(Retired) Jamie Robertson, CD, former Deputy Director of NORAD's Public Affairs (1997 - 2001), for his recent contribution (December 2011) of the 2000 NORAD Tracks Santa (with interviews) videotape to the NORAD Tracks Santa Wiki Community !!

View the NORAD Tracks Santa video clips from December 2000 at this link here.

Are there others out there with 1997 to 1999 NORAD Tracks Santa videotapes and/or CD-ROMs to contribute to the NORAD Tracks Santa Wiki Community ??


 * Overview, Videos and Audio, Holiday Music, Downloads, External Links, and Other
 * Summary of NORAD Tracks Santa
 * NORAD Tracks Santa Primer - Part 1 - History
 * NORAD Tracks Santa Primer - Part 2 - Website
 * Colorado Springs School District 11
 * NORAD Tracks Santa Videos
 * Holiday Videos from Around the World
 * Celebrity Audio and Video Messages
 * Other Videos
 * Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
 * NORAD Tracks Santa - Holiday Music - 2000 - 2005
 * NORAD Tracks Santa - Downloads
 * NORAD Tracks Santa - External Links
 * NORAD Tracks Santa - 10th Tracking Season Commemorative Album - 1964
 * NORAD Chief Santa Trackers of Renown
 * GLONASS Tracks Father Frost
 * Airservices Australia Tracks Santa
 * NASA Tracks Santa
 * Service Awards for Contributions to the NORAD Tracks Santa Wiki


 * Santa Tracker Marketplace, About NORAD, About Santa, Contacts and Other
 * Santa Tracker Marketplace
 * About NORAD
 * About NORAD - Why We Track Santa
 * About NORAD - How We Track Santa
 * About NORAD - Operation Good Will
 * About Santa
 * About Santa - Is He Real
 * About Santa - FAQs
 * About Santa - Santa Snacks
 * NORAD Tracks Santa - Contacts
 * NORAD Tracks Santa - Technical Support
 * Partners and Corporate Sponsors
 * Media Information
 * In Memory of Colonel (Retired) Harry Shoup, USAF
 * FAA and Santa’s Sleigh - Santa One
 * NOAA Helps NORAD Track Santa
 * Canadian NORAD Region and the Canadian Contributions to the NORAD Tracks Santa Program
 * E-mail and Letter Writing to Santa Claus
 * NORAD Tracks Santa in Popular Culture

NORAD Tracks Santa - Santa Finishing his Mission Over Hawaii on 25 December 2011. For text of narration, click here. Link to full size video


 * First-hand reminiscences and memoirs of NORAD Tracks Santa (NTS) Operations Center volunteers from 1955 to the present.
 * First-hand reminiscences and memoirs of those who organized the NORAD Tracks Santa program from 1955 to the present.
 * First-hand reminiscences from anyone with a first-hand perspective as a partner member or sponsor member of the NORAD Tracks Santa program from 1955 to the present.
 * First-hand reminiscences of those who tracked Santa on-line using the NORAD Tracks Santa website from 1997 to the present.
 * Anyone with CD-ROM's with .mpeg, .mov, .ram., flv, and/or .avi files of Santa's journey as tracked by the NORAD Tracks Santa program for the 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2001 tracking seasons (All Languages !!).
 * Anyone with videotapes (any format) of Santa's journey as tracked by the NORAD Tracks Santa program for the 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2001 tracking seasons (All Languages !!).

Thanks in advance from the NORAD Tracks Santa Wiki Community !!

Comment from Lt.Col.(Rtd) Jamie Robertson - NORAD's Chief Santa Tracker from 1997 - 2001

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See the Wiki article "Canadian NORAD Region and the Canadian Contributions to the NORAD Tracks Santa Program"



In December 2007, the Space Foundation recognized the NORAD Tracks Santa program as a Corporate Patron Level Partner in the Certified Imagination Product Category of the Space Foundation's Space Certification Program.



The NORAD Tracks Santa program won the Public Relations Society of America’s (PRSA) 2009 Silver Anvil Award of Excellence for the 50th anniversary in 2008 of NORAD’s annual Tracking of Santa Claus (NORAD being the successor in 1958 to the U.S.-only CONAD annual Tracking of Santa Claus effort that started in 1955). The full category title of the PRSA 2009 Silver Anvil Award is “2009 Silver Anvil Award of Excellence Winner – Event and Observances – Seven or Fewer Days – Government” and the award title is “NORAD Tracks Santa: Keeping the Dream Alive.”

Santa Tracker Theme Music Link to full size video



Video of school children on 20 December 2011 at the US Embassy in London, England, United Kingdom who looking forward to Santa's visit and reminding everyone to to look at the NORAD Tracks Santa website on Christmas Eve. Link to full size video



 

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