CityDroneWatch
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  2. Arizona
  3. Mesa
  4. September 2025
  5. 23

Mesa, Arizona · one day

Tuesday 23 September 2025

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

8

drone flights over Mesa that day.

6:12 am

first takeoff; the last was at 2:32 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Mesa police drones flew 8 times on Tuesday 23 September 2025, the first at 6:12 am and the last at 2:32 pm MST, by Mesa Police Department's published record.

8 drawable flights of 8. 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 stated62%
  2. Other38%

Flights, in order

8 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
6:12 amNot stated3 minMESAPD-2
6:27 amOther19 minMESAPD-2
7:09 amNot stated15 minMESAPD-2
7:47 amOther12 minMESAPD-2
8:48 amNot stated16 minMESAPD-2
11:55 amNot stated14 minMESAPD-2
1:03 pmNot stated12 minMESAPD-2
2:32 pmOther15 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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