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  4. August 2025
  5. 29

Carbondale, Illinois · one day

Friday 29 August 2025

12 drone flights from Southern Illinois University Police Department's published record.

12

drone flights over Carbondale that day.

5:58 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:37 pm.

2 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Carbondale police drones flew 12 times on Friday 29 August 2025, the first at 5:58 am and the last at 6:37 pm CDT, by Southern Illinois University 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. Not stated100%

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
5:58 amNot stated17 minSIUPD-25
6:38 amNot stated6 minSIUPD-25
7:35 amNot stated7 minSIUPD-25
6:11 pmNot stated1 min 54 sSIUPD-25
6:14 pmNot stated1 min 42 sSIUPD-25
6:17 pmNot stated2 minSIUPD-25
6:19 pmNot stated2 minSIUPD-25
6:24 pmNot stated2 minSIUPD-25
6:27 pmNot stated2 minSIUPD-25
6:29 pmNot stated4 minSIUPD-25
6:35 pmNot stated2 minSIUPD-25
6:37 pmNot stated6 minSIUPD-25

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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