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San Francisco, California · one day

Saturday 5 September 2026

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

29

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 29 times on Saturday 5 September 2026, times not published, by San Francisco Police Department's published record.

23 flights with a published block-level point of 29. 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

29 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 service21 min06149bb3
—Call for service8 min1311c7d4
—Call for service11 min138af180
—Call for service14 min19199e32
—Call for service9 min1d23c592
—Call for service5 min2c1bd0f6
—Call for service20 min34726582
—Call for service16 min386f5342
—Call for service3 min4df8726c
—Call for service11 min5dafc558
—Call for service19 min60b8826d
—Call for service14 min647ed3c5
—Call for service8 min6c8e77ad
—Call for service3 min781f4af2
—Call for service11 min78ffca16
—Call for service14 min8bd89f97
—Other13 min98aa4626
—Call for service5 min997c821e
—Call for service5 min9a3c811e
—Call for service17 minb028bcf5
—Other14 minc0dbb147
—Call for service5 minc8f66b2a
—Call for service1 min 00 sca8ecd6b
—Call for service10 mind1c8d9be
—Call for service7 mind2af220e
—Call for service11 mind5869165
—Other13 mine6c30084
—Call for service15 minf2dc790c
—Call for service4 minf488d579

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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