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Carbondale, Illinois · one day

Wednesday 3 June 2026

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

9

drone flights over Carbondale that day.

10:02 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:24 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Carbondale police drones flew 9 times on Wednesday 3 June 2026, the first at 10:02 am and the last at 6:24 pm CDT, by Southern Illinois University Police Department's published record.

9 drawable flights of 9. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other33%
  2. Not stated22%
  3. Call for service22%
  4. Training and testing11%
  5. Traffic and crashes11%

Flights, in order

9 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
10:02 amOther6 minSIUPD-26
10:10 amNot stated1 min 48 sSIUPD-26
10:14 amNot stated2 minSIUPD-26
11:32 amCall for service13 minSIUPD-26
11:57 amCall for service6 minSIUPD-26
12:18 pmTraining and testing10 minSIUPD-26
1:00 pmOther24 minSIUPD-26
2:44 pmOther24 minSIUPD-26
6:24 pmTraffic and crashes10 minSIUPD-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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