Weather Becoming a Focus

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As you can see from the news out of Santa Update today the weather is becoming more and more of a focus. I know it may seem boring and tedious to some of you but we really need some regular weather updates from every area. Here’s the link to the weather report.

The frequency of weather reports, due more to Operation Air Lift than Santa’s flight right now, should be about three days or whenever there is a shift in your local forecast.

If you listened to Elves Frank and Crash today you can tell they are concerned. The concern is 10x at Flight Command and next week is going to be super busy in the skies, if they can get the sleighs off the ground.

To me, after years of experience doing this, I sense they are going to need more from us than normal.

You can expect calls for landing zone reports, transit reports and air traffic reports. It’s coming I can feel it.

For those elves who are new and have not done it, please get your roof reports and chimney reports in first thing.

It’s crunch time, elves.

A Christmas Report from All Elves

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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**

 

Report Today if You Can

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Elves of Sector 1 – you’ve seen the other sectors requesting this and we’re going to do the same. Santa himself is asking for a Local Christmas Report from all areas.

Please go here to fill out the report. 

The feeling is that the Christmas Spirit may not be strong this year. Is this true where you are? Santa is trying to get this figured out.

Please send in your report as soon as you can.

URGENT REQUEST

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Elves of Sector 2 – an urgent request has been given to us to get done a Local Christmas Report from all areas.

This came from a meeting with North Pole Flight Command earlier today.

The topic of the meeting was the Christmas Spirit, which is always of concern to Santa. For some reason, he’s VERY concerned about it right now.

What is the Christmas Spirit like where you are? That’s the urgent question.

Please go to this report and complete it as soon as possible.

Thanks.

Local Christmas Report Requested

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As you saw Elf Pinky in Sector 5 say, we’re asking all elves to send in the same report. This is very rare. This is worldwide. This is asked of tracker elves everywhere.

We held a Zoom meeting with North Pole Flight Command today and Elf Roger said that after a serious conversation with Santa yesterday it was decided we need to do this.

You can access the report at this link. 

We need to know what you are seeing out there. Please answer the questions and send it in as soon as you can.

This is a points-eligible report. It counts!

Important: Local Christmas Report Needed

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North Pole Flight Command has issued an urgent request for a Local Christmas Report from all areas. You can fill out the report right here.

I’ll just tell you straight up that they are very concerned about the Christmas Spirit. This comes straight from the top, from Santa himself.

This report relies on your opinion. Don’t be shy is sharing it. Tell us about the Christmas spirit in the area where you are.

I’m not sure why this is important right now but this was asked of all elves in every sector.

Let’s get to work on this report.

Thanks.

Use the Sleigh Sighting Report

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Elves, as a reminder, if you see something in the sky you think might be a sleigh – please use the Sleigh Sighting report.

We are getting a higher level of possible sightings these days, powered by Operation Airlift, the test flights of Santa’s sleigh, and all the purported UFO activity out there. Elves are seeing things but they are not sure what they are.

That’s fine. If it’s a sleigh or you think it is a sleigh, please use the Slight Sighting Report found at this link. We can try to chase it down for you to confirm it or not.

Just like every other sector we have yet to have a confirmed sighting this year. But the possibility of sighting a sleigh goes up every day between now and Christmas. It’s going to happen eventually.

Freelance elves, please use your standard report.

Any report that provides photos or videos get a BIG bonus!

Drones in Sector 5

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Hello Elves of Sector 5,

Elf Rolf posted about UFOs in Sector 3 yesterday and no sooner did he do that than new reports started to come in from elves in our Sector. The activity in New Jersey has especially resulted in a lot of reports. Here is one image that was sent us of what is being seen in New Jersey:

Drones

One tracker elf we talked to who personally has witnessed these drones says that they are there in the skies all night, moving back and forth. They hover a lot. They do move some but largely just sit in one spot.

He described them as having a propeller noise or some kind of engine. They could be as big as a car, he said.

With these reports have come a lot of questions to North Pole Flight Command and to the Regional Tracking Center here in St. Nicholas.

Does the North Pole have drones? Yes, we do. But, they are not this size and they do NOT have these colors of lights. The North Pole has not dispatched any drones outside of North Pole air space since last Christmas and currently does not have any drones deployed anywhere in the world.

Does Santa’s sleigh look like these drones so many are seeing? NO. Lights on ALL North Pole sleighs are larger and brighter. Typically they are all white lights. They front from front to back of the sleigh, and along the bridle lines to the reindeer. So a North Pole sleigh in the sky will appear as a long floating string of lights.

So far, nothing that has been captured of these drones could ever be confused with a genuine North Pole sleigh.

We are monitoring events with the drones/UFOs in North America. We are seeing reports from California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, New Jersey and spot locations up in Canada. There is no pattern and no air activity related to the North Pole in any of these sightings.

Please continue to report what you see. We will do our best to confirm whether or not what you are seeing is North Pole connected. So far this week, none of what is being reported can by confirmed by North Pole Flight Command.

UFOs Reported in Sector 3

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Elves,

Over the past couple of weeks in the regular news media there have been reports of UFOs in many places around the world. In our Sector, they are appearing in England and in Germany. There might be other places as well. Here are a couple of photos of what some people are seeing:

UFOs

UFOs

Some people have been sending in pictures like this and reporting the UFOs. Some think they are connected with North Pole Flight Command or Santa in some way.

We are aware of these events. There are so many reported sightings that it is hard for us to keep track of them.

We even have elves on ships of the North Pole Navy that have photographed or captured video of UFOs in the North Atlantic.

We can assure you what these things are NOT: they are NOT flying sleighs. In fact, we are yet to receive a photo in our regional tracking center from our sector this year of a flying sleigh.

We don’t bring this up to scare anyone. Like others, we cannot say what these things are. But we are aware of them and we’re wondering, just like everyone else is.

For the record, we are keeping all North Pole sleigh craft far away from areas that report UFO activity.

We remain interested in this story. We will follow the direction of local governments, now and into the future, when it relates to Santa’s flight or flights of other sleighs of the North Pole. We do not expect issues that might impede Santa’s presence in our sector this year.

Just know we are aware and are following the news closely on this situation. If you see something that you think might be a sleigh, by all means report it. We will try to confirm if it is a sleigh or not.

Thanks.

Elfie Selfies Wanted

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Hello Sector 5,

I’ve been doing some research here, just comparing where we are now to this same date a year ago.

We are actually ahead in our elf count – more elves this year than last year by about 2%. We have an increase of 16% in freelance elves and a drop, actually, of North Pole tracker elves of about 3%.

I’m not worried about that. We’ll top out better than 30 million total elves by the time Santa takes off.

What I’m a little concerned about is that we are down on roof reports by about 8%. I know we’ll see a rush over the next few weeks, so I’ll just keep an eye on it for now. But if you’re new and have not yet sent in a roof report, please do so.

By the way, a shout out to all those great elves on the Elf Wall helping all the new elves out. You’re doing a great job and I thank  you!

Also, I’m working on putting up photos of as many of our Sector 5 elves as we can. I have a big wall inside the Tracking Center here in Minnesota that I’m putting Elfie Selfies on so our team here knows what you all look like.

If you haven’t done so already, can you please send in a selfie so we can add your smiling face to our wall? Here’s the form to send it in.

Thanks!

Do You See Sleighs?

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Do you see sleighs?

For whatever reason the test flights of Santa’s sleigh are over our sector. That, plus the fact the Operation Air Lift is now underway, there are a lot of signs in our skies of activity.

Add to that the phenomenon of UFOs and visible satellites in the skies these days and there are a lot of things going on.

Where possible, try to capture photos or videos of anything that looks like a sleigh to you in the skies.

We’ve have had a few reports sent in the past couple of weeks. Keep them coming. Use this report.

Stuff We Don’t Talk About

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Elf Moe has been on a tear, banning elves almost as fast as they sign up.

They get banned because they don’t really understand what it means to be an elf. We ask them to go to ElfHQ.com to learn the Elf Code and to take the Elf Oath. If they really understand those things they would be more careful here in the world of elves.

Of course, many of them are young. Some are just too excited to be an elf. Some were never meant to be elves in the first place.

To be an elf takes a special kind of person. An elf has two ears and one mouth – and uses them in that proportion.

An elf has to be really smart. They need to read, to learn and to act in a certain way to be an elf. That’s because Santa has standards. Santa didn’t get to become Santa by saying everything that just pops into his head. He had to learn how to talk, to respond and to act to get the reputation he has as Santa.

The same is true of all of us elves. We have to learn that there are things we know as elves and things we should talk about as elves. Even more true are the things we should NOT talk about as elves, too.

For example, Elf of the Shelf. I’ve talked about this plenty of times in the past and I won’t get into it again. You can read about that stuff elsewhere.

But I’ll just say here we, as elves, in this world right here on SantaTrackers.net – we don’t talk about it.

Why? Because it’s a personal matter.

Officially, Santa and the North Pole have nothing to do with personal elves known as Elf on the Shelf. We don’t know where they come from or who manages them. But that’s just one reason why we don’t talk about them.

We don’t talk about them because they are personal.

Not everyone, you see, has a personal elf or an Elf on the Shelf. So not only CAN’T we talk about them officially it’s not nice to talk about them when everyone doesn’t have one. Make sense?

Another thing we don’t talk about are things shared with us from our Elf Supervisor or North Pole Flight Command. You are shared information here because you need to know it as we track Santa for Santa. But the whole world doesn’t need that information.

Think about it. What if you know that Santa is in a certain place and we talk about it here? That’s fine. That’s good. That’s what the community is here for. But you need to be smart before you share that information with someone who hasn’t take the Elf Oath. What if that is someone who doesn’t like Santa or Christmas? What would they do with that information?

You gotta think.

And another thing we stay away from here is talking about other Santa trackers out there like Google or Norad. What’s so bad about them? They’re not bad. They’re just wrong. They don’t work for Santa. They don’t connect with North Pole Flight Command. They use the stuff of the US military and of airline technology to track Santa.

And what’s wrong with that? IT’S WRONG. They don’t have information from Santa to say where Santa is.

We don’t talk about them here because:

  1. We don’t want to give anyone wrong information.
  2. They aren’t connected with Santa.
  3. They frequently give out bad information.

That’s it. So don’t talk about them. Don’t bring them up.

Is it bad that you, as an elf working for Santa, goes to the places to see what they have to say? No, that’s your personal business. But don’t bring what they do HERE and talk like it is the truth, because it isn’t. Keep it to yourself.

What about Santa? Can we as elves talk about Santa?

Of course we can. And we should. Santa is one of the good guys. We realize that even you, an elf, are still learning about Santa. We try to give you the right information about Santa right here from the North Pole. Why wouldn’t we want everyone to know that.

So think, Elf. Think hard before you say things.

You’re an elf now. Santa expects you to be smart.