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Aurora, Colorado · one day

Saturday 26 September 2026

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

40

drone flights over Aurora that day.

2:32 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:58 pm.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Aurora police drones flew 40 times on Saturday 26 September 2026, the first at 2:32 am and the last at 11:58 pm MDT, by Aurora Police Department's published record.

40 drawable flights of 40. 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. Other80%
  2. Not stated8%
  3. Call for service5%
  4. Assisting another agency5%
  5. Traffic and crashes2%

Flights, in order

40 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
2:32 amOther25 minAUPD-260
2:58 amOther22 minAUPD-260
3:22 amOther22 minAUPD-260
3:45 amOther20 minAUPD-260
4:06 amOther22 minAUPD-260
4:33 amOther21 minAUPD-260
5:40 amOther17 minAUPD-260
8:37 amCall for service23 minAUPD-260
8:44 amOther9 minAUPD-260
8:57 amOther15 minAUPD-260
9:09 amOther22 minAUPD-260
9:55 amOther20 minAUPD-260
10:16 amOther14 minAUPD-260
10:40 amOther16 minAUPD-260
11:11 amOther22 minAUPD-260
11:51 amOther7 minAUPD-260
12:14 pmOther14 minAUPD-260
12:44 pmOther23 minAUPD-260
1:17 pmOther13 minAUPD-260
1:21 pmOther17 minAUPD-260
1:48 pmAssisting another agency16 minAUPD-260
2:05 pmAssisting another agency22 minAUPD-260
2:46 pmOther18 minAUPD-260
3:19 pmOther4 minAUPD-260
3:20 pmNot stated22 minAUPD-260
4:01 pmOther5 minAUPD-260
4:40 pmOther9 minAUPD-260
5:10 pmOther13 minAUPD-260
5:13 pmNot stated4 minAUPD-260
6:41 pmOther11 minAUPD-260
7:45 pmCall for service24 minAUPD-260
8:11 pmNot stated6 minAUPD-260
8:31 pmOther11 minAUPD-260
9:32 pmOther17 minAUPD-260
9:56 pmOther18 minAUPD-260
10:15 pmTraffic and crashes9 minAUPD-260
10:44 pmOther11 minAUPD-260
11:05 pmOther18 minAUPD-260
11:34 pmOther14 minAUPD-260
11:58 pmOther1 min 54 sAUPD-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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