drone flights over San Jose that day.

12:36 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:54 pm.

20 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

San Jose police drones flew 9 times on Friday 28 August 2026, the first at 12:36 am and the last at 10:54 pm PDT, by Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office's published record.

9 drawable flights of 9. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.

One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, PDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Call for service100%

Flights, in order

9 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
12:36 am	Call for service	18 min	`36be3b78`
12:56 am	Call for service	20 min	`adddb37a`
1:17 am	Call for service	21 min	`7166c607`
1:40 am	Call for service	22 min	`ccc4c34d`
2:03 am	Call for service	17 min	`c328a3a0`
2:45 am	Call for service	16 min	`a1b5fd63`
10:14 pm	Call for service	9 min	`2906622f`
10:32 pm	Call for service	20 min	`972c0d04`
10:54 pm	Call for service	20 min	`45f36214`

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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