North Pole Flight Command is reporting that sleigh sighting reports have spiked from tracker elves in nearly every sector over the past month.

“We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Elf Wilbur Boeing, a flight analyst at Flight Command. “Freelance elf reports seem to be dominating this trend and they appear to be coming from a lot of coastal areas, such as the Pacific Coast of Canada, the USA and Mexico. That makes sense because that’s the flight corridor to the North Pole for inbound traffic.”

Elf Pinky of Sector 5 says the reports coming in from trackers are “off the charts” for October. She says the sleigh sighting reports are plentiful but she also reports robust activity with weather, roof and local Christmas reports.

Likewise in Sector 1, which largely has seen reporting increase from the South China Sea to the North Pacific – another popular flight corridor, Elf Randi says that because of so many sleigh sightings they are also seeing a corresponding increase in tracker elf sign-ups in Sector 1. “What’s happening is that word of these sleighs in the skies is spreading, mostly I think on social media, and as people ask ‘what is that?’ and they learn they are flying sleighs, they naturally get curious about Santa and the work the North Pole does, so they sign up.” Elf Randi said.

The same thing is happening in the Atlantic, according to Elf Rolf, Elf Supervisor for Sector 3 in Europe and Africa. “All this traffic to and from the North Pole in September and October has led to a lot more new elf sign-ups. People are interested. They want to help.”

Elf Flip has promised an update on the total count of tracker elves world wide in the coming days. We will see what impact this has had on all the recruiting numbers for new elves.

Hi Elves of Sector 1!

As you may have heard on North Pole Radio News the activity covering the crisis in Santa’s Workshop is supposed to be affecting all Sectors and the work we do as tracker elves. I have been listening to Elf Crash and the elves at North Pole Flight Command to figure out what direction we need to be taking right now. Honestly it is hard to sort out.

We really want to be watching the skies for any activity we see. So, this would be a good time to reacquaint yourself with the sleigh sighting report and to be prepared to use it at any time.

The skies over the shipping lanes associated commonly with the Pacific Ocean would be our target – meaning that areas in Japan, the Philippines, all of Micronesia and of course the east coast of Australia and all of New Zealand – you could see sleighs, day or not. If you see something, say something.

In terms of how we can help them, well, it’s all about the weather, Of course, for many parts of our sector it is an active weather season and that is why we have been sending in weekly weather reports. Right now, I would tell you, if you see big changes in your weather or a forecast for unsettled weather, especially with high level winds, we need to know about it. Do not wait to send in a weekly report if you are seeing more changes of a more immediate nature.

From what I have been told teams led by Comet and Cupid are active, leading a fleet of teamsters driving sleighs full of rubber, aluminum, silicone and oil. They are running back and forth, north to south and back north again, through the skies roughly every 18 hours.

In addition, there are no less than 6 ships of the North Pole Navy likewise on the waters of Sector 1 in the Pacific. Even though each of these ships have their own weather teams, we still want to remember them in our weather reporting. I have asked for positioning information on each ship but have yet to have that information given to me.

I am hearing that Prancer and Vixen might be leading another team of sleighs through our skies soon, too. I’ll keep you updated.

Thanks!

Hello from Christmas Island. I’m sorry we have not put out much news.

We are having Internet issues at our new Regional Tracking Center in Christmas Island (Australia). In fact, I’m having to send this via my phone and it’s a big pain.

Please be patient with us.

I think we will be open far in advance of Santa’s date of August 1st but the lack of Internet is slowing us down. I think they will have to install Starlink, which they are working on now. This really should have been resolved in advance by the Regional Tracking Center Committee. But we’re having to deal with it now and it is slowing everything else down.

So, I’m NOT ignoring your messages. I’ve just got issues getting to them.

Give us a few days and I’ll let you know when Sector 1 is live.