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  4. January 2026
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Aurora, Colorado · one day

Wednesday 21 January 2026

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

24

drone flights over Aurora that day.

12:12 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 9:45 pm.

20 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Aurora police drones flew 24 times on Wednesday 21 January 2026, the first at 12:12 pm and the last at 9:45 pm MST, by Aurora 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. Not stated100%

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
12:12 pmNot stated13 minAUPD-260
12:28 pmNot stated13 minAUPD-260
12:42 pmNot stated13 minAUPD-260
1:03 pmNot stated20 minAUPD-260
1:30 pmNot stated21 minAUPD-260
1:54 pmNot stated25 minAUPD-260
2:26 pmNot stated24 minAUPD-260
2:54 pmNot stated21 minAUPD-260
3:29 pmNot stated17 minAUPD-260
3:47 pmNot stated20 minAUPD-260
4:08 pmNot stated23 minAUPD-260
4:32 pmNot stated19 minAUPD-260
5:24 pmNot stated19 minAUPD-260
5:44 pmNot stated23 minAUPD-260
6:08 pmNot stated22 minAUPD-260
7:00 pmNot stated22 minAUPD-260
7:30 pmNot stated22 minAUPD-260
7:52 pmNot stated15 minAUPD-260
8:13 pmNot stated1 min 12 sAUPD-260
8:16 pmNot stated1 min 12 sAUPD-260
8:18 pmNot stated25 minAUPD-260
8:44 pmNot stated26 minAUPD-260
9:21 pmNot stated23 minAUPD-260
9:45 pmNot stated15 minAUPD-260

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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