drone flights over Brookhaven that day.

11:26 am

first takeoff; the last was at 4:36 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brookhaven police drones flew 13 times on Thursday 5 March 2026, the first at 11:26 am and the last at 4:36 pm EST, by Brookhaven Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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, EST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Drone as first responder100%

Flights, in order

13 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 (EST)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
11:26 am	Drone as first responder	4 min	`3546a5e1`
11:36 am	Drone as first responder	9 min	`234dae54`
12:31 pm	Drone as first responder	4 min	`b5c0141d`
1:25 pm	Drone as first responder	10 min	`330bc476`
1:55 pm	Drone as first responder	10 min	`cb6e3270`
2:06 pm	Drone as first responder	19 min	`367faf69`
2:26 pm	Drone as first responder	12 min	`13d57846`
2:42 pm	Drone as first responder	15 min	`ce7355f7`
3:22 pm	Drone as first responder	6 min	`a52ffae5`
3:31 pm	Drone as first responder	20 min	`9353670b`
4:20 pm	Drone as first responder	4 min	`f0e81ea3`
4:25 pm	Drone as first responder	7 min	`9c6f4a4e`
4:36 pm	Drone as first responder	8 min	`b55356c2`

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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