Kid Kypree‘s dramatic arrest was caught on camera … not traditional body cam footage, but from high in the sky — because a drone captured the moment law enforcement caught him.

TMZ has obtained footage taken from an infrared camera of the incident … where a heat signature — which we’re told is Kypree — is slowly making its way through the woods.

Check out the clip … Kid Kypree’s creeping through the trees, looking for a way out — but, seeing none, he returns to the property, where he’s arrested by cops.

It’s a pretty different version of Kypree than the one who was seen on video hitting his significant other multiple times in a harrowing video.

As we told you, Kid Kypree was arrested on a felony domestic violence charge after he was seen hitting his girlfriend multiple times during an incident in Battle Creek, Michigan.