Will PATCH be montoring Santa's trip here?

While PATCH won't be keeping an attentive eye to the sky on Friday evening, thankfully military officials from NORAD will. Beginning at 6 a.m. on Dec. 24, NORAD will begin its annual monitoring of Santa's Operations Center. You can follow along at http://www.noradsanta.org/en/index.html.

NORAD is the bi-national U.S.-Canadian military organization responsible for the aerospace and maritime defense of the United States and Canada. In recent years NORAD's mission has evolved to include coordinating closely with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and NAV CANADA, Canada's equivalent to America's FAA, to monitor the airspace within Canada and the United States. In addition, the command also conducts maritime monitoring and of course, Santa's treck around the world.