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