drone flights over Brookhaven that day.

8:20 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:35 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brookhaven police drones flew 20 times on Sunday 3 May 2026, the first at 8:20 am and the last at 7:35 pm EDT, by Brookhaven Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. 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 responder95%
Not stated5%

Flights, in order

20 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
8:20 am	Drone as first responder	18 min	`4e3a96e8`
8:59 am	Drone as first responder	3 min	`bbed07b5`
10:18 am	Drone as first responder	14 min	`187c9b34`
10:38 am	Drone as first responder	12 min	`d56c2e48`
10:53 am	Drone as first responder	15 min	`ea21f9a8`
11:08 am	Not stated	7 min	`633d22ff`
11:12 am	Drone as first responder	15 min	`93a68dab`
11:35 am	Drone as first responder	10 min	`b1206b14`
12:07 pm	Drone as first responder	7 min	`53f1745b`
12:12 pm	Drone as first responder	4 min	`107230e4`
12:19 pm	Drone as first responder	21 min	`027181a1`
12:52 pm	Drone as first responder	13 min	`ae516ff6`
2:17 pm	Drone as first responder	8 min	`8eb3b779`
2:54 pm	Drone as first responder	13 min	`f2d56412`
4:42 pm	Drone as first responder	6 min	`26075076`
5:00 pm	Drone as first responder	17 min	`6284e40b`
5:20 pm	Drone as first responder	7 min	`dede1b7e`
5:54 pm	Drone as first responder	7 min	`a2cb61b7`
6:36 pm	Drone as first responder	7 min	`25f81059`
7:35 pm	Drone as first responder	14 min	`7285cd13`

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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