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South San Francisco, California · one day

Friday 20 March 2026

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

7

drone flights over South San Francisco that day.

12:59 am

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

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South San Francisco police drones flew 7 times on Friday 20 March 2026, the first at 12:59 am and the last at 10:54 pm PDT, by South San Francisco Police Department's published record.

7 drawable flights of 7. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service43%
  2. Search29%
  3. Assisting another agency14%
  4. Traffic and crashes14%

Flights, in order

7 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
12:59 amCall for service18 min401f1f62
12:51 pmAssisting another agency15 min8de120fb
4:12 pmTraffic and crashes7 min4c26980e
4:51 pmCall for service8 min8a1baa74
8:57 pmSearch22 min9202b7a7
10:07 pmSearch22 min3a2f60bf
10:54 pmCall for service9 mina30e2cac

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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