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Mesa, Arizona · one day

Thursday 16 July 2026

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

24

drone flights over Mesa that day.

4:44 am

first takeoff; the last was at 8:14 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Mesa police drones flew 24 times on Thursday 16 July 2026, the first at 4:44 am and the last at 8:14 pm MST, by Mesa Police Department's published record.

24 drawable flights of 24. 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. Other54%
  2. Not stated46%

Flights, in order

24 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
4:44 amNot stated1 min 36 sMESAPD-2
4:47 amNot stated1 min 42 sMESAPD-2
5:37 amNot stated8 minMESAPD-2
8:02 amOther8 minMESAPD-2
8:49 amOther6 minMESAPD-2
9:41 amOther16 minMESAPD-2
9:50 amOther10 minMESAPD-2
10:28 amOther14 minMESAPD-2
11:29 amOther10 minMESAPD-2
12:20 pmOther13 minMESAPD-2
1:01 pmOther9 minMESAPD-2
1:17 pmNot stated21 minMESAPD-2
1:42 pmOther6 minMESAPD-2
1:52 pmOther10 minMESAPD-2
2:49 pmOther19 minMESAPD-2
3:10 pmOther13 minMESAPD-2
4:37 pmOther24 minMESAPD-2
5:01 pmNot stated26 minMESAPD-2
5:21 pmNot stated42 sMESAPD-2
5:24 pmNot stated25 minMESAPD-2
5:50 pmNot stated20 minMESAPD-2
7:52 pmNot stated11 minMESAPD-2
8:10 pmNot stated2 minMESAPD-2
8:14 pmNot stated2 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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