CityDroneWatch
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  2. Arizona
  3. Mesa
  4. September 2026
  5. 6

Mesa, Arizona · one day

Sunday 6 September 2026

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

16

drone flights over Mesa that day.

1:23 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:15 pm.

18 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Mesa police drones flew 16 times on Sunday 6 September 2026, the first at 1:23 am and the last at 3:15 pm MST, by Mesa Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. 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. Other81%
  2. Not stated19%

Flights, in order

16 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
1:23 amOther9 minMESAPD-2
1:35 amOther22 minMESAPD-2
1:58 amOther22 minMESAPD-2
2:22 amOther22 minMESAPD-2
3:19 amOther15 minMESAPD-2
3:52 amOther20 minMESAPD-2
7:43 amOther22 minMESAPD-2
8:13 amOther7 minMESAPD-2
8:38 amOther8 minMESAPD-2
9:15 amNot stated17 minMESAPD-2
10:13 amNot stated10 minMESAPD-2
10:53 amOther17 minMESAPD-2
11:13 amNot stated25 minMESAPD-2
12:03 pmOther10 minMESAPD-2
2:55 pmOther28 minMESAPD-2
3:15 pmOther19 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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