CityDroneWatch
  1. CityDroneWatch
  2. Colorado
  3. Aurora
  4. July 2026
  5. 23

Aurora, Colorado · one day

Thursday 23 July 2026

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

36

drone flights over Aurora that day.

12:01 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:44 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Aurora police drones flew 36 times on Thursday 23 July 2026, the first at 12:01 am and the last at 10:44 pm MDT, by Aurora Police Department's published record.

36 drawable flights of 36. 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. Not stated72%
  2. Other22%
  3. Call for service6%

Flights, in order

36 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
12:01 amNot stated9 minAUPD-260
8:30 amOther18 minAUPD-260
8:46 amOther14 minAUPD-260
9:16 amNot stated12 minAUPD-260
9:34 amNot stated3 minAUPD-260
9:45 amNot stated9 minAUPD-260
10:11 amNot stated24 minAUPD-260
10:45 amNot stated9 minAUPD-260
11:18 amNot stated7 minAUPD-260
11:20 amNot stated13 minAUPD-260
11:38 amNot stated4 minAUPD-260
11:41 amNot stated11 minAUPD-260
12:45 pmNot stated1 min 12 sAUPD-260
12:58 pmNot stated21 minAUPD-260
2:00 pmNot stated2 minAUPD-260
3:04 pmNot stated13 minAUPD-260
4:14 pmNot stated3 minAUPD-260
4:18 pmOther9 minAUPD-260
4:29 pmNot stated11 minAUPD-260
4:34 pmNot stated3 minAUPD-260
4:49 pmOther7 minAUPD-260
5:01 pmNot stated11 minAUPD-260
5:30 pmNot stated9 minAUPD-260
6:11 pmNot stated25 minAUPD-260
6:28 pmNot stated8 minAUPD-260
6:39 pmOther12 minAUPD-260
6:57 pmNot stated1 min 18 sAUPD-260
7:04 pmNot stated29 minAUPD-260
7:27 pmCall for service23 minAUPD-260
7:41 pmNot stated21 minAUPD-260
9:06 pmOther22 minAUPD-260
9:33 pmOther4 minAUPD-260
9:46 pmCall for service17 minAUPD-260
9:50 pmNot stated12 minAUPD-260
10:09 pmNot stated27 minAUPD-260
10:44 pmOther10 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.

Corrections and questions: see the about page. See about this site for the sources and the publication rules.