drone flights over Brookhaven that day.

9:47 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:23 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brookhaven police drones flew 15 times on Friday 20 March 2026, the first at 9:47 am and the last at 7:23 pm EDT, by Brookhaven Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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, EDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Drone as first responder100%

Flights, in order

15 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 (EDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
9:47 am	Drone as first responder	7 min	`9ea3b795`
10:41 am	Drone as first responder	10 min	`5a220fa5`
11:23 am	Drone as first responder	9 min	`81fdb75e`
11:55 am	Drone as first responder	12 min	`1d8a9782`
12:11 pm	Drone as first responder	12 min	`0bf3d57c`
1:01 pm	Drone as first responder	11 min	`ddbf366c`
1:26 pm	Drone as first responder	3 min	`2985dd72`
1:49 pm	Drone as first responder	14 min	`d3ae0262`
2:04 pm	Drone as first responder	14 min	`26e2860c`
2:57 pm	Drone as first responder	5 min	`db3345f8`
3:58 pm	Drone as first responder	17 min	`0019e4e3`
4:32 pm	Drone as first responder	9 min	`e97d29db`
5:55 pm	Drone as first responder	18 min	`722c749c`
6:43 pm	Drone as first responder	17 min	`84d957c8`
7:23 pm	Drone as first responder	10 min	`51e0ac27`

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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