But they inadvertently listed the top-secret phone number of the Continental Air Defense Command, NORAD's predecessor, also based in Colorado Springs. Shoup picked up an emergency-only “red ...

Is this Santa Claus?” that tiny voice asked. “Dad’s pretty annoyed,” Shoup’s daughter Terri Van Keuren recalled in 2009. “He ...

now NORAD, a joint U.S. and Canadian effort to spot potential enemy attacks. Tensions were growing with the Soviet Union, ...

NORAD is also taking calls at a telephone hotline ... Shoup of the Continental Air Defense Command received a call on a red telephone at his windowless command post in Colorado Springs.

NORAD’s annual tracking of Santa has endured ... Shoup picked up an emergency-only “red phone” and was greeted by a tiny voice that began to recite a Christmas wish list.

On any other night, NORAD is scanning the heavens for potential ... Shoup picked up an emergency-only “red phone” and was greeted by a tiny voice that began to recite a Christmas wish list.

NORAD’s annual tracking of Santa has endured ... Shoup picked up an emergency-only “red phone” and was greeted by a tiny voice that began to recite a Christmas wish list.

NORAD's live operators chat with callers about Santa's whereabouts. Shoup stationed some airmen on the red phone to field the calls pouring in from children wanting to talk about their Christmas ...

NORAD’s annual tracking of Santa has endured ... Shoup picked up an emergency-only “red phone” and was greeted by a tiny voice that began to recite a Christmas wish list.“ ...

NORAD’s annual tracking of Santa has endured ... Shoup picked up an emergency-only “red phone” and was greeted by a tiny voice that began to recite a Christmas wish list.