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  4. May 2026
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Aurora, Colorado · one day

Saturday 16 May 2026

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

25

drone flights over Aurora that day.

8:34 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:13 pm.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Aurora police drones flew 25 times on Saturday 16 May 2026, the first at 8:34 am and the last at 11:13 pm MDT, by Aurora Police Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. 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, MDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Other64%
  2. Not stated28%
  3. Call for service8%

Flights, in order

25 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 (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
8:34 amOther23 minAUPD-260
9:08 amOther11 minAUPD-260
10:12 amNot stated16 minAUPD-260
10:21 amCall for service14 minAUPD-260
10:34 amOther10 minAUPD-260
11:08 amOther12 minAUPD-260
11:20 amNot stated3 minAUPD-260
11:27 amOther12 minAUPD-260
11:42 amNot stated11 minAUPD-260
11:54 amOther3 minAUPD-260
12:38 pmOther12 minAUPD-260
1:37 pmCall for service26 minAUPD-260
2:13 pmOther24 minAUPD-260
2:30 pmNot stated27 minAUPD-260
2:54 pmNot stated19 minAUPD-260
3:54 pmOther2 minAUPD-260
3:57 pmOther15 minAUPD-260
4:18 pmOther5 minAUPD-260
5:07 pmOther19 minAUPD-260
6:10 pmOther18 minAUPD-260
6:29 pmNot stated28 minAUPD-260
6:58 pmOther30 minAUPD-260
9:20 pmNot stated23 minAUPD-260
9:55 pmOther28 minAUPD-260
11:13 pmOther12 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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