Harry Shoup – the commander on duty at the NORAD’s predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command – fielded a call from a child who dialed a misprinted telephone number in a newspaper ...

U.S. and Canadian Air Force officials remain on high alert today, tracking the movements of an airborne Nordic sleigh propelled by eight reindeer. Every Dec. 1, the North American Aerospace ...

By now, it's a famous story: back in December of 1955, a red phone at the Continental Air Defense Command, NORAD's predecessor, started ringing. It wasn't a four-star general on the line — but a ...

The modern tradition of tracking Santa began in 1955 when a young child accidentally dialed the unlisted phone number of NORAD’s predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command operations center.

Children trying to call Santa instead reached the on-duty commander at the Continental Air Defense Command, which would later be known as NORAD. Air Force Col. Harry Shoup kindly played along and ...

Instead of ringing Old Saint Nick, a child called the Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Air Force Col. Harry Shoup, who answered the child’s call ...

Harry Shoup's menacing red phone — perched in what was then the Operation Center at Colorado Springs' Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) — rang. It was Shoup's direct line to the ...