8
drone flights over South San Francisco that day.
2:05 am
first takeoff; the last was at 8:58 pm.
7 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
South San Francisco police drones flew 8 times on Thursday 9 July 2026, the first at 2:05 am and the last at 8:58 pm PDT, by South San Francisco Police Department'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:05 am | Call for service | 6 min | 96ac0398 |
| 3:29 am | Call for service | 18 min | 417800f6 |
| 10:38 am | Call for service | 18 min | 093ca4c4 |
| 1:25 pm | Call for service | 8 min | f28d7c7c |
| 4:46 pm | Events | 7 min | b1e337e7 |
| 5:01 pm | Search | 7 min | 3b9f1d42 |
| 5:55 pm | Traffic and crashes | 5 min | da99e306 |
| 8:58 pm | Search | 6 min | 7916607d |
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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