Trackers in Greenland and South America Check In
North Pole Flight Command just issued the request for trackers in Sector 4 to check in. Let’s show them we’re ready to go to work!
Submit Questions for Elf Crash
Elf Crash Murphy, International Director of Santa Trackers, has informed me that a lot of effort will be made before Santa launches to answer your questions.
There will be the North Pole Chat on Sunday at 10AM EST as well as late news being posted on all official North Pole websites all weekend. Crash also says he and Frank will do a podcast that focuses on the current needs Santa has as well as the questions you might have.
Please respond to this post below with questions you want to submit. You can alternatively send them to me via Private Message (for North Pole Elves part of the Elf Community).
We want to take questions from ALL tracker elves tracking Santa for Santa, so please use the comment area below to ask.
I think Elf Frank and Elf Crash plan to release that podcast sometime on Saturday, so you’ve got plenty of time to ask your questions.
Thanks!
Schedule Change Announcement
Due to circumstances related to Operation Airlift we have decided to move up the check-in process worldwide.
Check-ins will be announced via your Elf Supervisor beginning on Saturday, December 21st instead of our original plan of the 22nd.
Tracker Check-in is a process that tells your Elf Supervisor that you are or are not available to work tracking Santa for Santa.
We remind you that Santa is very concerned for your time with your family during this important season. As such, do not feel bad if you cannot be available all the time between the 21st and when Santa arrives at your home.
We appreciate what time you can dedicate to the cause of tracking Santa for Santa.
It is anticipated that this weekend will be filled with news and direction from the Elf Supervisors.
We invite you to participate, if your schedule allows, in the scheduled North Pole chat set for Sunday, December 22nd. I will be hosting that chat and will be able to share and answer questions about the latest in the status of Operation Merry Christmas.
Operation Airlift is off schedule. North Pole Flight Command has had to modify their original plans due to difficulties in getting sleighs launched from the North Pole.
As such, we anticipate this weekend will be filled with a lot of breaking news. We may be asking for reports or observations from local areas that go beyond the norm.
If time allows, Elf Frank and I will likely release a new SantaTrackers.net Podcast to discuss issues this weekend as well.
I encourage you all to read what Elf Ed Zachary posted earlier today. It may help you understand the challenges we are facing as a team in helping Santa get around the world.
As for Santa, he is well aware of the situation and is monitoring things. He plans to continue his visits with believers. At this time, he does not plan a return to the North Pole at a different time than scheduled. He continues to check in with Elf Roger Star on the status of Operation Airlift.
Santa has instructed me to check in with him every 12 hours. Those quick check-ins are by phone and I remain ready to not only forward our questions and concerns to Santa but also to receive his direction.
I will be posting as needed over the next several days so that you know what is going on and how you can help during this time.
Thank you.
A Christmas Report from All Elves
Hola, Elves of Sector 4 – we have an urgent message from Santa via North Pole Flight Command.
Santa is wanting to know about the Christmas Spirit in all areas. We need to fill out this report – in any language – as soon as possible.
The Local Christmas Report is one you might get asked a couple of times to fill out. This one, for reasons that have not yet been explained to us, appears to be really, really important. So let’s help Santa out by sharing what we know about Christmas where we are.
Thanks, Elves!
**THIS IS NOT A DRILL**
What All Elves Should Be Doing Right Now
Hi Elves!
Crash here – if you are new and you don’t know me, my name is Elf Crash Murphy and I’m the International Director of Santa Trackers. We makes me, more or less, the Head Elf, YOUR Head Elf, your boss’ boss. In my humble way, I’m here to tell ya what to do.
Now, if you follow along at SantaUpdate.com – and you should – then you likely know me from my North Pole Radio News reports as that guy who follows Santa every Christmas Eve and gives out news reports. That’s my Christmas Eve job, and it makes me, well, some people like to call me, the Ultimate Santa Tracker.
Anyway, if you’re new and don’t know what to do, relax. We’ll get you trained. There are lots of elves here to help you.
Right now and for the next five weeks or so we will be getting lots of new elves. There’s always mass confusion because a new elf wants to do everything. They want to tell other elves what to do, they want every elf job out there and they want to ride with Santa on his sleigh.
Well, again, relax. Ain’t none of that is going to happen because you are a new elf. And you have to learn to be the tracker elf you are before you get to do any of that stuff.
So, relax! We’ve all been there. Once upon a time we were all new elves.
So what should you be doing? Glad you asked!
I got together with all the Elf Supervisors and made this list. I’m banning the posting of news until at least the first part of next week (Monday, November 25th), so that you can catch up with the following things:
- If you are a freelance elf, READ EVERYTHING. Then send in your first freelance elf report. In that first report I want you to just give us a status on yourself and your availability to track Santa for Santa up until Christmas Eve.
- If you are a North Pole elf and a member here of the Elf Community here at SantaTrackers.net, I want you to first get your profile set. You should put the word “Elf” in front of your name on your profile. You should have an avatar that represents YOU. And you should have a cover photo, which is placed behind your avatar on your profile. There are lots of elves and tutorials on the site to help you get this done.
- Then, no matter what kind of elf you are, I want you to go read everything at Elf University. Learn your Sector. Figure out who your Elf Supervisor is. You are tracking Santa for Santa – that means you will be communicating with the North Pole through your tracker reports. Take all this really seriously and learn how to do it FAST.
- Find the page to Santa Tracker Radio – and listen to it. It’s great. On December 23rd you’re all going to be listening to it because that’s when North Pole Radio News broadcasts the Tracking Santa around the World radio show. It’s very famous and you’ll hear me on there now and then.
- Then go listen to a few past episodes of the Santa Tracker Podcast. New episodes will be coming out soon and you will need to know where to find them. The older episodes all have great information about how to be a tracker elf.
Now let me give you some stuff NOT to do:
- Don’t tell others what to do. Elf Moe is just itching to ban elves who don’t belong here because they get a big head because they’re an elf. We don’t do that. BE NICE.
- If you’re new, don’t even think of trying to get an additional elf job unless Elf Sandy Claus in Elf Resources says you can apply for something. Most jobs require a lot of points and at least one year of service. So if you’re new, you won’t get any of the jobs being posted.
- Don’t give up. Being an elf is not easy. Lots of other elves here will help you. You will get it and Santa needs you.
Ok, now let me just ask our veteran elves who have been here more than a year to do a few things:
- If there are new jobs posted by Elf Sandy Claus, please consider applying for them.
- Please help the new elves in everyway you can.
- Please help new elves you know to sign up at SantaTrackers.net. We need more GOOD elves.
- Participate in the Elf Parade next week by submitting pictures of your costume and how you dress up your bike, trike, scooter, etc.
- Make sure you are up to date on your reports.
- Watch the skies for flying sleighs. There are LOTS of them out there right now (watch the News at NorthPoleFlightCommand.com and SantaUpdate.com for more on that)
- Elf Supes are going to ask for pictures of your Christmas trees soon. Just a heads up.
Ok, you got questions? Ask them in the comments below.
Thank you, Elves.
Possible Sighting of the Test Flights
We have our first possible sighting of the test flights of Santa’s sleigh reporter from a tracker elf in Venezuela.
Elf Medina, a resident of that country and a 3-year tracker elf, reported the possible sighting and recorded some video, which he sent to us.
Whenever there is a sleigh sighting of any type there is a verification process to validate the sighting. There are three steps to the process and Elf Medina’s report has cleared the first step.
The first step is to get by the review process here at the Regional Tracking Center. We take his report and his photos or videos and process them through three different steps as well at our level. It first goes to a regional observer who matches the report to flight data. If it passes that test, it goes to our internal review board who looks at all the information and determines if it is strong enough to move forward. If they approve it, it gets sent to me to determine whether or not to pass it to North Pole Flight Command.
In the case of this report, all three of our steps at the Regional Tracking Center for Sector 4 have been met and I have indeed sent it to Flight Command, who is presently reviewing it.
Flight Command first sends the report to the Sleigh Department, which has a flight command committee that plans and reviews all sleigh flights anywhere in the world. It does not take them long to determine if a report we send in qualifies.
Once they take a look at it, it goes before the General Board at North Pole Flight Command. They review all the data and reports compiled up to that point in the process. Then they have a very important discussion to answer specific questions.
1. Is this a legitimate sighting of Santa’s sleigh?
2. If true, do we confirm it publicly?
3. If false, do we release that information publicly?
4. Who does this information serve if we do release it?
As they debate those questions we wait.
That is where we are at now in the process. From all I know, no other sighting report has gone so far this year.
Thanks to Elf Medina for his good work.
Test Flights Coming Our Way
Greetings, Elves!
I have been officially notified from North Pole Flight Command that the test flights of Santa’s sleigh are heading to Sector 4.
Given their last known position near Iceland it is difficult to know it that means they will head north and west towards Greenland or south and west towards South America.
I asked. They wouldn’t tell me.
So I guess we will need to be ready for anything.
We STILL do not have an elf on record this year who has spotted any of the test flights of Santa’s sleigh. I find that to be unbelievable. Wouldn’t it be cool if a Sector 4 elf scored the first sleigh in the skies?
If you see something, say something!
I don’t know how long we’ll have the test flights here. So let’s make the best of it.
Ground Report Requested
Hi elves!
We have a little bit of an unusual request from flight command – they want a ground report from all areas of Sector 4 if we can swing it. They’d like it within the next 7 days.
From what I understand they are dispatching scout teams to Sector 4. Why? I’m not really sure. It could be prep work for Santa’s flight or it could have something to do with future test flights over our area.
They really aren’t telling me anything.
Regardless of their reasons, let’s try to meet with the request if we can.
Thanks!
Special Reporting Needs in Greenland
Hello my fellow Elves!
A lot of people forget that Greenland is a part of Sector 4. That is largely because there are very few people who actually live in Greenland. It’s kind of a unique place.
But it is a critical part of Santa’s flight. He has to go there and it is fraught, frankly speaking, with dangers for him.
We reviewed our needs in Greenland with Elf Roger Star, who had some special requests from Santa.
We can either get more elves there or solicit the help of elves who might travel there to help report on conditions in Greenland.
We do not believe it is possible to get many new elves in Greenland. There are a few. But their are far apart and their reports are not adequate to meet the needs there.
So we are asking folks who may travel there on business or on pleasure, for their work in the military of various nations and such, and others who have reason to go there between now and Santa’s flight time, to take on these reporting needs if possible.
Please reach out to me personally on this project and I will direct you with what we’d like you to do. For security purposes, we cannot outline our needs in Greenland a this time.
Thanks!
Sector 4 Call to Duty
Hola, Amigos!
Sector 4 is now active with our Regional Tracking Center in Peru. As part of our efforts to get organized, we’d like as many elves as possible in Sector 4 to please do an Elf Status Report.
We’re just trying to get a handle on our numbers.
When last season ended we had roughly 6 million tracker elves in Sector 4. The majority of those were freelance elves. Freelance elves are going to come and go but our North Pole Elves – you guys! – need to be accounted for.
I just need to see how many of you are on the job right now.
We’ll get to other things soon but in my view this is the most important thing we can be doing right now.
So get that in as soon as you can.
Thanks – TR
Sector 4 Can Stand Down Now
Friends in Sector 4 – the official word has come: it’s time for us to call it a year. The stand down order is in.
Fortunately, our work in the preseason make it so we didn’t have much to do today. It was fun just watching Santa cross the world.
Thank you for your many efforts this year!
Merry Christmas!
Sector 4 in the Red Zone
Elves! Sector 4 is now in the Red Zone. We’re on the clock, on the big board, in the spotlight – whatever it is you want to call this, it’s just our time.
Are you ready to track Santa for Santa?
Let’s get ahead of things. If you’re up and able, please send in the Weather Report, updated for your area, via the form below:
