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Apparently NORAD has a tradition of tracking Santa Claus. One of their videos has the following narrative:

"Santa Claus has entered North American airspace. [...] In order to give Santa a warm NORAD welcome, we've scrambled a couple of Canadian CF-18 aircraft to escort him into Canada."

*scratches head* "Warm NORAD welcome?" That phrase doesn't usually conjure up anything pleasant, considering what NORAD normally expects to welcome into NA airspace. Hmm. Let's milk this, shall we?

CF-18 2: "Kringle 1, this is Kringle 2, target in visual."
CF-18 1: "Roger that, Kringle 2. NORAD, this is Kringle flight, we have the sleigh spotted."
NORAD: "Roger that, Kringle flight, give him a warm NORAD welcome."
CF-18 2: "Understood, NORAD. Kringle 2, we have weapons free authorization."
CF-18 1"Roger that, Kringle 1. Fox two!"
NORAD: "... Wait, what?!"

"Ummm... Santa has LEFT North American airspace a little early. Uh.. he had to go back to the North Pole to rendezvous with an AC-130 for in-flight refueling and toy-resupply. Really."

Santa apparently visited the ISS earlier this evening, at least according to NORAD. He made reentry somewhere over Egypt. They thoughtfully showed an image of the firey re-entry, with the ablative heat shields, AKA the reindeer, operating within normal parameters....