drone flights over Brookhaven that day.

9:53 am

first takeoff; the last was at 7:30 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Brookhaven police drones flew 20 times on Tuesday 5 May 2026, the first at 9:53 am and the last at 7:30 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
9:53 am	Drone as first responder	12 min	`69c3bce4`
9:54 am	Drone as first responder	15 min	`6ccd7051`
10:25 am	Drone as first responder	8 min	`43f82e4a`
10:47 am	Drone as first responder	17 min	`d7f9a911`
11:05 am	Drone as first responder	13 min	`cc1f3119`
11:29 am	Drone as first responder	25 min	`fffdd35a`
11:46 am	Drone as first responder	19 min	`f2167665`
12:15 pm	Drone as first responder	4 min	`60e4012e`
1:22 pm	Drone as first responder	11 min	`9850e177`
1:58 pm	Drone as first responder	7 min	`8c737ca3`
2:34 pm	Drone as first responder	10 min	`98e0b14c`
2:35 pm	Drone as first responder	8 min	`598b2490`
2:47 pm	Not stated	20 min	`9cffdf60`
4:39 pm	Drone as first responder	16 min	`d94db505`
4:57 pm	Drone as first responder	10 min	`3c2ae240`
5:06 pm	Drone as first responder	9 min	`60194284`
5:31 pm	Drone as first responder	7 min	`b7e8fc75`
6:41 pm	Drone as first responder	19 min	`967a474f`
6:59 pm	Drone as first responder	16 min	`aad13d5c`
7:30 pm	Drone as first responder	17 min	`59cee0e5`

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.

Corrections and questions: file an issue in the korvid-labs repository (demo).