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South San Francisco, California · one day

Saturday 5 September 2026

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

10

drone flights over South San Francisco that day.

12:54 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:35 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

South San Francisco police drones flew 10 times on Saturday 5 September 2026, the first at 12:54 am and the last at 10:35 pm PDT, by South San Francisco Police Department's published record.

10 drawable flights of 10. 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

  1. Call for service70%
  2. Events10%
  3. Search10%
  4. Other10%

Flights, in order

10 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
12:54 amEvents20 min6f480f5f
9:31 amCall for service14 min0ddb4a6e
11:42 amCall for service16 minde8ce056
1:25 pmCall for service10 mina6f4b4ff
6:02 pmCall for service12 min6205ce7b
6:46 pmSearch9 min085fa55f
7:21 pmCall for service15 min87e8846f
8:12 pmCall for service21 min775faa72
9:33 pmOther12 min4680101f
10:35 pmCall for service10 min01e70ad2

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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