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Aurora, Colorado · one day

Thursday 20 August 2026

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

17

drone flights over Aurora that day.

8:40 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:01 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Aurora police drones flew 17 times on Thursday 20 August 2026, the first at 8:40 am and the last at 9:01 pm MDT, by Aurora Police Department's published record.

17 drawable flights of 17. 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 stated65%
  2. Other24%
  3. Call for service12%

Flights, in order

17 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
8:40 amNot stated10 minAUPD-260
9:55 amOther19 minAUPD-260
10:44 amNot stated8 minAUPD-260
12:01 pmCall for service25 minAUPD-260
1:20 pmOther22 minAUPD-260
1:29 pmCall for service30 minAUPD-260
4:06 pmNot stated7 minAUPD-260
4:53 pmNot stated10 minAUPD-260
5:26 pmOther12 minAUPD-260
6:01 pmNot stated24 minAUPD-260
6:32 pmOther8 minAUPD-260
6:44 pmNot stated11 minAUPD-260
7:21 pmNot stated12 minAUPD-260
7:41 pmNot stated4 minAUPD-260
8:21 pmNot stated16 minAUPD-260
8:46 pmNot stated9 minAUPD-260
9:01 pmNot stated17 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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