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  4. January 2026
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San Francisco, California · one day

Wednesday 7 January 2026

13 drone flights from San Francisco Police Department's published record.

13

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

—

times not published in this record.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 13 times on Wednesday 7 January 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

11 flights with a published block-level point of 13. The record gives no path.
One flight, at its published block

Hour by hour

Times not published in this record.

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service77%
  2. Other23%

Flights, in order

13 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (PST)PurposeAirborneFlight
—Call for service5 min15546738
—Call for service11 min1f46a2a0
—Call for service10 min41d667cf
—Other2 min53640191
—Other10 min5462df39
—Call for service20 min813ce83d
—Other20 min9363b6bf
—Call for service10 minaeaa6836
—Call for service16 minbf0896a3
—Call for service5 mind344b66a
—Call for service20 mind999d482
—Call for service15 mine4ea5079
—Call for service29 mine82c6942

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
  • Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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