8
drone flights over Bloomington that day.
9:45 am
first takeoff; the last was at 10:10 pm.
7 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Bloomington police drones flew 8 times on Thursday 20 August 2026, the first at 9:45 am and the last at 10:10 pm CDT, by Bloomington Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:45 am | Training and testing | 7 min | 8c5c481a |
| 9:57 am | Training and testing | 6 min | b8f3cc42 |
| 10:09 am | Other | 4 min | df9b74f2 |
| 11:01 am | Training and testing | 21 min | a13fd7b5 |
| 11:02 am | Training and testing | 15 min | 37e45698 |
| 10:01 pm | Training and testing | 4 min | 8c4521ed |
| 10:06 pm | Training and testing | 4 min | e5027e72 |
| 10:10 pm | Training and testing | 9 min | 804a0bd3 |
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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