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  4. August 2026
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San Francisco, California · one day

Sunday 9 August 2026

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

21

drone flights over San Francisco that day.

—

times not published in this record.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Francisco police drones flew 21 times on Sunday 9 August 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

18 flights with a published block-level point of 21. 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 service90%
  2. Other10%

Flights, in order

21 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 (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
—Call for service9 min0a04ebf7
—Call for service10 min0b6fe6e5
—Other13 min1716e867
—Call for service14 min26131ab0
—Call for service16 min2a937eda
—Call for service16 min41beebf2
—Call for service7 min50c6aa04
—Call for service5 min530d5836
—Call for service11 min5fd9d720
—Call for service15 min6dde17d5
—Call for service13 min6dfd4fc1
—Call for service2 min6e112087
—Call for service15 min7c616733
—Call for service9 min80f0642f
—Call for service12 min8210a5ad
—Call for service3 mina078f104
—Call for service11 mina525951c
—Call for service14 minbb360250
—Other2 mincb36d7fe
—Call for service14 mine56be6dc
—Call for service19 minf8362717

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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