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Aurora, Colorado · one day

Wednesday 16 September 2026

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

21

drone flights over Aurora that day.

9:05 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:07 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Aurora police drones flew 21 times on Wednesday 16 September 2026, the first at 9:05 am and the last at 10:07 pm MDT, by Aurora Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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 stated76%
  2. Other24%

Flights, in order

21 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
9:05 amNot stated2 minAUPD-260
9:15 amNot stated14 minAUPD-260
9:37 amNot stated14 minAUPD-260
9:56 amOther12 minAUPD-260
9:57 amNot stated11 minAUPD-260
10:15 amOther5 minAUPD-260
11:03 amNot stated1 min 12 sAUPD-260
11:19 amOther24 minAUPD-260
11:48 amNot stated25 minAUPD-260
11:59 amOther3 minAUPD-260
12:18 pmNot stated16 minAUPD-260
12:35 pmNot stated20 minAUPD-260
2:23 pmNot stated11 minAUPD-260
3:04 pmNot stated9 minAUPD-260
5:41 pmOther27 minAUPD-260
6:56 pmNot stated24 minAUPD-260
7:23 pmNot stated8 minAUPD-260
8:22 pmNot stated25 minAUPD-260
8:49 pmNot stated15 minAUPD-260
9:05 pmNot stated2 minAUPD-260
10:07 pmNot stated26 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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