9
drone flights over San Jose that day.
4:57 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 11:43 pm.
18 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
San Jose police drones flew 9 times on Wednesday 21 October 2026, the first at 4:57 pm and the last at 11:43 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:57 pm | Search | 22 min | a322b8e2 |
| 5:25 pm | Other | 21 min | e1e92491 |
| 10:12 pm | Call for service | 18 min | eb6c0ea9 |
| 10:31 pm | Call for service | 20 min | 8c88484c |
| 10:47 pm | Call for service | 15 min | af070968 |
| 10:53 pm | Call for service | 19 min | 1ebc118d |
| 11:03 pm | Call for service | 17 min | 3b0e3ece |
| 11:22 pm | Call for service | 16 min | dccff7a7 |
| 11:43 pm | Call for service | 7 min | 52fe5e0e |
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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