Mere days before Santa Claus makes his trek around the world, a commander of the military team tracking his journey has revealed how the man in the red suit achieves the impossible.
In an interview with 麻豆传媒 Channel on Friday, Maj. Kathleen Leaton, Mission Crew Commander with the Santa Trackers at Canadian Forces Base North Bay, revealed how Santa circumnavigates the globe in his one-night delivery run.
鈥淪anta experiences time a little differently than you or I,鈥� she said. 鈥淲hat seems to us to be 24 hours is actually weeks, months to him, potentially. He鈥檚 operating in a slightly different space-time continuum.鈥�
Without that ability, covering the 160 million kilometres needed to visit each home -- -- seems an impossible challenge.
dates back to 1955, when children kept calling a phone number incorrectly printed in a Colorado Springs newspaper advertisement for Sears. The ad billed the number as a direct line to Santa, but callers were instead connected to CONAD, as NORAD was called at the time.
Rather than hang up on the children, Col. Harry Shoup had his operators update each child on Santa鈥檚 whereabouts and a tradition was born.
WATCH the NORAD Santa Tracker livestream on on Christmas Eve
