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Bloomington, Illinois · one day

Thursday 16 July 2026

12 drone flights from Bloomington Police Department's published record.

12

drone flights over Bloomington that day.

4:02 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:09 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Bloomington police drones flew 12 times on Thursday 16 July 2026, the first at 4:02 pm and the last at 10:09 pm CDT, by Bloomington Police Department's published record.

12 drawable flights of 12. 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

  1. Events92%
  2. Call for service8%

Flights, in order

12 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)PurposeAirborneFlight
4:02 pmEvents9 mina9d35e18
4:05 pmEvents3 min2f8d96e8
4:17 pmEvents2 min11d0491b
4:20 pmEvents3 minbfdb23ac
4:35 pmEvents10 min0e940d48
4:51 pmEvents5 min309ae7ed
4:59 pmEvents8 min4a9a58a2
5:11 pmEvents7 min30085ca9
5:19 pmEvents2 min1a4711ce
5:22 pmEvents10 mindd3dc2f7
5:37 pmEvents10 minfa69ae37
10:09 pmCall for service8 mina5b8d05f

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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