8
drone flights over San Jose that day.
5:32 am
first takeoff; the last was at 8:27 am.
14 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
San Jose police drones flew 8 times on Thursday 27 August 2026, the first at 5:32 am and the last at 8:27 am 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:32 am | Call for service | 22 min | 55f30bae |
| 5:49 am | Call for service | 14 min | 5f417efb |
| 5:59 am | Call for service | 13 min | cf9f7c74 |
| 6:07 am | Call for service | 12 min | 65364dd0 |
| 6:16 am | Call for service | 14 min | 7329be9a |
| 6:26 am | Call for service | 14 min | f3922af2 |
| 6:37 am | Call for service | 12 min | ecf9eb40 |
| 8:27 am | Call for service | 15 min | a4c274f0 |
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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