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  4. August 2026
  5. 12

Carbondale, Illinois · one day

Wednesday 12 August 2026

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

14

drone flights over Carbondale that day.

7:30 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:16 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Carbondale police drones flew 14 times on Wednesday 12 August 2026, the first at 7:30 am and the last at 3:16 pm CDT, by Southern Illinois University Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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. Other100%

Flights, in order

14 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
7:30 amOther11 minSIUPD-26
7:57 amOther13 minSIUPD-26
8:25 amOther11 minSIUPD-26
9:03 amOther10 minSIUPD-26
9:56 amOther7 minSIUPD-26
10:26 amOther10 minSIUPD-26
11:24 amOther14 minSIUPD-26
12:07 pmOther21 minSIUPD-26
12:52 pmOther10 minSIUPD-26
1:11 pmOther8 minSIUPD-26
1:46 pmOther10 minSIUPD-26
2:10 pmOther5 minSIUPD-26
2:34 pmOther8 minSIUPD-26
3:16 pmOther28 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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