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12/18/2002 Archived Entry: "Military declassifies rare pictures of Santa"

PICTURES OF SANTA RELEASED BY NORAD: NORAD announced yesterday that they have been tracking and photographing Santa Claus for about 45 years and have even snapped pictures of him at work over the decades.

"The photographs also include a grainy black-and-white image taken in 1959 of Santa on a rooftop."

"A news release yesterday on the NORAD site, www.noradsanta.org, also announced that Santa had agreed to a 'full-blown test flight' to be held today.

"The test will follow Santa for 30 minutes over the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Alaska, escorted by Canadian and U.S. fighter jets.

"'Two CF-18s from Canada's Air Force will intercept and escort Santa to Alaska, where they will hand off to two American F-15s,' says the news release, which explains the exercise is to test tracking equipment in advance of Christmas."