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Aurora, Colorado · one day

Thursday 17 September 2026

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

21

drone flights over Aurora that day.

7:37 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:19 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Aurora police drones flew 21 times on Thursday 17 September 2026, the first at 7:37 am and the last at 11:19 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 stated48%
  2. Other43%
  3. Assisting another agency5%
  4. Call for service5%

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
7:37 amNot stated3 minAUPD-260
8:16 amOther14 minAUPD-260
9:12 amNot stated1 min 30 sAUPD-260
9:19 amAssisting another agency13 minAUPD-260
9:40 amNot stated2 minAUPD-260
10:10 amCall for service12 minAUPD-260
11:26 amNot stated2 minAUPD-260
11:29 amNot stated1 min 54 sAUPD-260
11:58 amOther7 minAUPD-260
1:40 pmOther9 minAUPD-260
2:00 pmOther30 minAUPD-260
2:12 pmOther21 minAUPD-260
3:58 pmOther25 minAUPD-260
4:14 pmNot stated18 minAUPD-260
4:33 pmNot stated11 minAUPD-260
5:06 pmNot stated8 minAUPD-260
5:44 pmNot stated10 minAUPD-260
6:23 pmOther15 minAUPD-260
9:53 pmNot stated10 minAUPD-260
10:19 pmOther27 minAUPD-260
11:19 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.

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