31
drone flights crossed Silver Spring.
31
of them in October 2026.
3 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Police drones crossed Silver Spring 31 times between 2 October 2026 and 21 October 2026, by Milwaukee Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 21 October 2026.
3 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.
55% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).
0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.
Why, in the agency's words
The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 31 flights that crossed this area.
Hour of day
Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.
Flight list, October 2026
| Date | Takeoff (CDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct 2026 | 12:02 am | Training and testing | 1 min 26 s | c0956206 |
| Fri 2 Oct 2026 | 6:58 am | Training and testing | 1 min 05 s | b22e6be1 |
| Fri 2 Oct 2026 | 11:59 pm | Training and testing | 3 min | 09b717bb |
| Mon 5 Oct 2026 | 12:05 am | Training and testing | 3 min | 4f3b97d2 |
| Mon 5 Oct 2026 | 11:59 pm | Training and testing | 2 min | 5da18488 |
| Tue 6 Oct 2026 | 8:20 am | Training and testing | 3 min | d48ed72d |
| Wed 7 Oct 2026 | 12:12 am | Training and testing | 3 min | a7b0d845 |
| Thu 8 Oct 2026 | 12:05 am | Training and testing | 3 min | f4f56271 |
| Thu 8 Oct 2026 | 4:37 pm | Call for service | 26 min | 67f3c7f9 |
| Thu 8 Oct 2026 | 5:05 pm | Call for service | 25 min | c7478ed2 |
| Thu 8 Oct 2026 | 5:32 pm | Call for service | 28 min | 4e5f2ada |
| Thu 8 Oct 2026 | 6:05 pm | Call for service | 25 min | b119369a |
| Fri 9 Oct 2026 | 12:08 am | Training and testing | 5 min | f9b8386a |
| Fri 9 Oct 2026 | 11:58 pm | Training and testing | 1 min 15 s | 9a09fdf5 |
| Sat 10 Oct 2026 | 8:13 am | Training and testing | 1 min 27 s | d61cb64a |
| Sat 10 Oct 2026 | 8:35 am | Call for service | 19 min | 358bb8b4 |
| Sun 11 Oct 2026 | 8:09 am | Training and testing | 1 min 59 s | 66884abf |
| Mon 12 Oct 2026 | 4:17 am | Training and testing | 9 min | 5db528e1 |
| Mon 12 Oct 2026 | 8:24 am | Training and testing | 1 min 07 s | be6a7766 |
| Tue 13 Oct 2026 | 11:04 am | Training and testing | 2 min | e01b1536 |
| Wed 14 Oct 2026 | 12:04 am | Training and testing | 4 min | dc8e3da2 |
| Wed 14 Oct 2026 | 10:19 am | Training and testing | 1 min 45 s | 588304b9 |
| Thu 15 Oct 2026 | 4:15 am | Training and testing | 5 min | a9f27da4 |
| Thu 15 Oct 2026 | 8:56 am | Patrol support | 2 min | 55f2e3ba |
| Fri 16 Oct 2026 | 8:00 am | Training and testing | 2 min | d1d13dae |
| Fri 16 Oct 2026 | 11:39 pm | Call for service | 33 s | 23fd629a |
| Fri 16 Oct 2026 | 11:41 pm | Call for service | 3 min | 1f41b2d6 |
| Fri 16 Oct 2026 | 11:44 pm | Call for service | 7 min | b3383222 |
| Mon 19 Oct 2026 | 12:05 am | Training and testing | 3 min | b89a9181 |
| Wed 21 Oct 2026 | 12:02 am | Training and testing | 3 min | 82c56937 |
| Wed 21 Oct 2026 | 11:57 pm | Training and testing | 2 min | 076b8d56 |
All 31 flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.
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.
- Boundary. "Silver Spring" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Milwaukee (Neighborhoods, data.milwaukee.gov), licence recorded as "Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)", in the place layer file for Milwaukee.
- A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.
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