8
drone flights over San Jose that day.
12:58 am
first takeoff; the last was at 8:01 pm.
17 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
San Jose police drones flew 8 times on Friday 16 May 2025, the first at 12:58 am and the last at 8:01 pm PDT, by Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, PDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:58 am | Call for service | 18 min | b250ed7e |
| 1:17 am | Call for service | 19 min | 0be5047c |
| 1:38 am | Call for service | 21 min | de55eaf3 |
| 2:00 am | Call for service | 20 min | 31cdbc92 |
| 2:22 am | Call for service | 3 min | 86b16b27 |
| 2:26 am | Call for service | 17 min | ca18bb3a |
| 2:44 am | Call for service | 7 min | 894b3c2b |
| 8:01 pm | Call for service | 3 min | 207c5d86 |
How this page is made
- Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
- 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
- Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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