drone flights over Cobb County that day.

6:59 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:03 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Cobb County police drones flew 15 times on Thursday 5 March 2026, the first at 6:59 am and the last at 10:03 pm EST, by Cobb County 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, EST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Patrol support60%
Training and testing40%

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 (EST)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
6:59 am	Patrol support	10 min	`4eff38ec`
8:31 am	Patrol support	12 min	`8cf255f2`
9:22 am	Patrol support	7 min	`c2c2b3c3`
9:53 am	Patrol support	13 min	`a6e2cea9`
10:26 am	Patrol support	7 min	`57e361e5`
11:26 am	Training and testing	2 min	`9881739a`
11:30 am	Training and testing	1 min 43 s	`a2779fea`
2:31 pm	Training and testing	1 min 24 s	`fcc8f326`
2:38 pm	Training and testing	1 min 14 s	`32bec89d`
2:39 pm	Training and testing	1 min 41 s	`fdd20bd2`
2:44 pm	Training and testing	1 min 24 s	`d462d185`
5:40 pm	Patrol support	17 min	`80f5ccf7`
6:57 pm	Patrol support	7 min	`c1a3d89c`
8:36 pm	Patrol support	14 min	`41326737`
10:03 pm	Patrol support	13 min	`c1b68f46`

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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