8
drone flights over Carbondale that day.
7:21 am
first takeoff; the last was at 7:41 pm.
12 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Carbondale police drones flew 8 times on Friday 8 May 2026, the first at 7:21 am and the last at 7:41 pm CDT, by Southern Illinois University 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:21 am | Other | 18 min | SIUPD-26 |
| 12:54 pm | Other | 22 min | SIUPD-26 |
| 3:00 pm | Other | 13 min | SIUPD-26 |
| 3:24 pm | Other | 10 min | SIUPD-26 |
| 6:29 pm | Not stated | 12 min | SIUPD-26 |
| 6:56 pm | Not stated | 11 min | SIUPD-26 |
| 7:11 pm | Other | 11 min | SIUPD-26 |
| 7:41 pm | Not stated | 22 min | SIUPD-26 |
How this page is made
- Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
- 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
- Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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