Public safety
AFC championship game briefly suspended after drone incursion in Baltimore
Baltimore, United States28 Jan 2024 · event dateapproximate location In short
What happened: public safety at Baltimore on 28 January 2024.
Effect: confirmed by the sources.
Was it a drone? Drone presence is confirmed. Who was behind it: not established.
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A drone incursion caused a temporary interruption of the AFC championship game in Baltimore on2024-01-28.
AttributionNot established
Claims and evidence
2 sources · 2 original statements
Sources that repeat the same original statement count once: a number of articles is not a number of independent confirmations.
| Claim | Original source | Assessment |
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| Drone DOT-OIG records the drone incursion and game suspension. Source passage [1]“the game was temporarily suspended” Passage checked word for word against the source on 17 Oct 2026. | US DOT Office of Inspector General | supports Government account of drone incursion; shared court/investigation origin with DOJ. |
| Impact News account describes play interrupted. Source passage [2]“officials put the game on hold” Passage checked word for word against the source on 17 Oct 2026. | Sporting News via Sporting News | supports No exact duration inferred. |
Source genealogy
Grouped by recorded original statement, not by publisher. Unmapped sources have unknown dependency; linked statements may also share an earlier origin. This is not an independence score.
- US DOT Office of Inspector General
- US DOT Office of Inspector General: criminal complaint [1] · Direct account
- Sporting News
- Sporting News: game interruption [2] · Relayed statement
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Left: publishers; right: recorded original statement. Converging lines show shared origin, not publication order. Dashed nodes have unknown dependency.
What we know
Play was temporarily suspended. No exact interruption duration, injury or physical damage total asserted.
DOT-OIG describes a drone incursion and temporary suspension. Sporting News separately reports the broadcast explanation and administrative timeout.
What remains unknown
This event is separate from other stadium drone interruptions. Exact device model, route and location are not supplied here. The Government complaint alleges unauthorised drone operation. A charge is not a finding of guilt; subsequent legal outcomes are outside these two selected accounts.
Operator attribution: Not established. No hostile organisation or state assigned. Individual legal proceedings are described without private names.
How the story changed
AFC championship game interrupted by drone incursion. [1]
DOT-OIG publishes criminal complaint account. [1]
Editorial changes
- Revision 2 · 17 Oct 2026Added verified publication times for existing sources.
- Revision 1 · 17 Oct 2026Curated dossier created after checking the cited sources line by line.
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DroneLedger. “AFC championship game briefly suspended after drone incursion in Baltimore.” Dossier baltimore-afc-championship-drone-interruption-2024-01-28, revision 2, updated 17 Oct 2026. https://droneincidents.com/incident/baltimore-afc-championship-drone-interruption-2024-01-28/v2/
APA
DroneLedger. (17 Oct 2026). AFC championship game briefly suspended after drone incursion in Baltimore (Dossier baltimore-afc-championship-drone-interruption-2024-01-28, revision 2). https://droneincidents.com/incident/baltimore-afc-championship-drone-interruption-2024-01-28/v2/
Dataset DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23345422
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