I can remember being just a little lad and listening to the AM radio on Christmas Eve. We all know the excitement of Christmas Eve and the anticipation of Santa coming. The old tube type radio would crackle and hum as the radio announcer would break in and say the U.S. Air Force and NORAD had spotted an unidentified object flying at high speed from the North Pole headed towards the United States.
They would play some Christmas music and then the announcer would come on saying that the USAF had sent fighter planes to intercept the object. Then more music and they would have an officer talking from a base somewhere and he would report that the planes had spotted a sleigh being pulled by reindeer and they were sure it was Santa but where investigating. Sometime later it would get closer and closer to the SW Ohio area. I assume that it was a low wattage station and therefore knew their listeners would be in this area.
Fond memories indeed.





