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.

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!

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

Friends in Sector 4 in South America, Greenland and in parts of the North Atlantic – we have been invited by North Pole Flight Command to begin checking in for tracking Santa for Santa. Please do so below as soon as you possibly can!

Your Elf Name *

Your Sector *

• Sector 1
• Sector 2
• Sector 3
• Sector 4
• Sector 5

Please tell us which days you are available (local time) *

• Saturday, December 21st
• Sunday, December 22nd
• Monday, December 23rd
• Tuesday, December 24th

Can North Pole Flight Command contact you if needed via SantaTrackers.net? *

• Yes
• No

Do you have anything right now from your area that you feel Santa or your Elf Supervisor needs to know?

Send it to North Pole Flight Command