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Aurora, Colorado · one day

Sunday 20 September 2026

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

31

drone flights over Aurora that day.

9:52 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:59 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Aurora police drones flew 31 times on Sunday 20 September 2026, the first at 9:52 am and the last at 11:59 pm MDT, by Aurora Police Department's published record.

31 drawable flights of 31. 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. Other45%
  2. Not stated42%
  3. Call for service10%
  4. Traffic and crashes3%

Flights, in order

31 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
9:52 amOther8 minAUPD-260
10:02 amNot stated21 minAUPD-260
10:51 amTraffic and crashes11 minAUPD-260
11:25 amNot stated15 minAUPD-260
12:26 pmOther8 minAUPD-260
12:34 pmNot stated14 minAUPD-260
12:40 pmOther6 minAUPD-260
12:56 pmNot stated1 min 24 sAUPD-260
12:57 pmOther16 minAUPD-260
1:23 pmNot stated26 minAUPD-260
1:40 pmNot stated1 min 12 sAUPD-260
1:41 pmNot stated28 minAUPD-260
2:03 pmNot stated14 minAUPD-260
2:14 pmOther11 minAUPD-260
4:16 pmNot stated11 minAUPD-260
4:31 pmNot stated18 minAUPD-260
4:45 pmNot stated12 minAUPD-260
5:32 pmCall for service20 minAUPD-260
6:16 pmOther17 minAUPD-260
6:18 pmOther10 minAUPD-260
7:07 pmOther12 minAUPD-260
7:25 pmOther12 minAUPD-260
7:37 pmOther13 minAUPD-260
7:44 pmOther10 minAUPD-260
10:07 pmNot stated8 minAUPD-260
10:41 pmCall for service13 minAUPD-260
10:48 pmCall for service11 minAUPD-260
11:04 pmNot stated4 minAUPD-260
11:10 pmOther12 minAUPD-260
11:42 pmOther24 minAUPD-260
11:59 pmOther24 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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