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  4. August 2025
  5. 6

Mesa, Arizona · one day

Wednesday 6 August 2025

12 drone flights from Mesa Police Department's published record.

12

drone flights over Mesa that day.

10:15 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:46 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Mesa police drones flew 12 times on Wednesday 6 August 2025, the first at 10:15 am and the last at 6:46 pm MST, by Mesa Police Department's published record.

12 drawable flights of 12. 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, MST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated92%
  2. Other8%

Flights, in order

12 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 (MST)PurposeAirborneFlight
10:15 amNot stated1 min 30 sMESAPD-2
10:18 amOther10 minMESAPD-2
10:44 amNot stated9 minMESAPD-2
11:12 amNot stated9 minMESAPD-2
11:24 amNot stated11 minMESAPD-2
11:39 amNot stated10 minMESAPD-2
11:52 amNot stated10 minMESAPD-2
2:10 pmNot stated10 minMESAPD-2
2:23 pmNot stated10 minMESAPD-2
2:37 pmNot stated10 minMESAPD-2
5:49 pmNot stated19 minMESAPD-2
6:46 pmNot stated18 minMESAPD-2

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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