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Bethesda, Maryland · one day

Monday 8 June 2026

10 drone flights from Montgomery County Police Department's published record.

10

drone flights over Bethesda that day.

2:32 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 4:00 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Bethesda police drones flew 10 times on Monday 8 June 2026, the first at 2:32 pm and the last at 4:00 pm EDT, by Montgomery County Police Department's published record.

10 drawable flights of 10. 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, EDT.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Drone as first responder100%

Flights, in order

10 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 (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
2:32 pmDrone as first responder13 minbac0a50c
2:44 pmDrone as first responder22 mind1aac0e2
2:47 pmDrone as first responder20 min23cc0fbc
2:56 pmDrone as first responder13 mind88c0346
3:12 pmDrone as first responder17 minea28e2b2
3:32 pmDrone as first responder13 min8b8315e0
3:48 pmDrone as first responder17 min271559dd
3:48 pmDrone as first responder18 min0b7ed950
3:57 pmDrone as first responder13 min6a612c27
4:00 pmDrone as first responder12 minca35614a

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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