This “Santa Tracking” put the scares into us back in 1962. We had just come off the threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October in which we did not know if the US would last till Christmas due to Nuclear War!
Then it all blew over but we were still on edge.
On Dec 24, TV programing was broken into with the warning that NORAD had detected something incoming over the DEW line!
Was it Russian Missiles? Was this the end of the USA? All the stresses of October returned!
Then they showed a chintzy illustration of Santa and sleigh with cotton ball clouds floating by.
We didn’t know whether to be relieved that was all it was or upset for the return of stresses from that October.
That is one year they could have forgotten about Santa.
Sorry about that. But I suspect it’s given more fun and joy than scares, over the decades.