drone flights over Bloomington that day.

12:36 am

first takeoff; the last was at 2:11 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Bloomington police drones flew 17 times on Thursday 7 May 2026, the first at 12:36 am and the last at 2:11 pm CDT, by Bloomington Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing100%

Flights, in order

17 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 (CDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
12:36 am	Training and testing	15 min	`77190cd1`
2:37 am	Training and testing	1 min 18 s	`4c570564`
2:43 am	Training and testing	32 s	`9aaffd20`
2:45 am	Training and testing	4 min	`b9160706`
2:51 am	Training and testing	1 min 14 s	`4a252458`
2:54 am	Training and testing	22 min	`9c869ace`
2:54 am	Training and testing	2 min	`edb61dfa`
2:58 am	Training and testing	20 min	`28b30c37`
3:19 am	Training and testing	18 min	`e2509ba6`
3:21 am	Training and testing	18 min	`2588ffd6`
3:41 am	Training and testing	11 min	`031042ae`
3:59 am	Training and testing	8 min	`a1bbcee4`
4:13 am	Training and testing	17 min	`a4c57241`
4:41 am	Training and testing	10 min	`124df0ec`
5:02 am	Training and testing	12 min	`82efe4ef`
5:19 am	Training and testing	4 min	`4aec021b`
2:11 pm	Training and testing	17 min	`cbb3c8dc`

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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