33
drone flights over Aurora that day.
8:50 am
first takeoff; the last was at 10:50 pm.
12 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Aurora police drones flew 33 times on Monday 5 October 2026, the first at 8:50 am and the last at 10:50 pm MDT, by Aurora Police Department's published record.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, MDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
27 listable flights; 6 with a sensitive stated purpose are counted above but not listed. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.
| Takeoff (MDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:50 am | Other | 12 min | AUPD-261 |
| 9:11 am | Other | 21 min | AUPD-261 |
| 9:38 am | Other | 7 min | AUPD-261 |
| 9:51 am | Other | 12 min | AUPD-261 |
| 10:21 am | Other | 14 min | AUPD-261 |
| 11:02 am | Other | 22 min | AUPD-261 |
| 11:43 am | Other | 10 min | AUPD-261 |
| 11:58 am | Assisting another agency | 25 min | AUPD-261 |
| 12:16 pm | Assisting another agency | 24 min | AUPD-261 |
| 12:30 pm | Assisting another agency | 21 min | AUPD-261 |
| 1:06 pm | Other | 9 min | AUPD-261 |
| 1:14 pm | Call for service | 12 min | AUPD-261 |
| 2:16 pm | Other | 13 min | AUPD-261 |
| 3:12 pm | Other | 5 min | AUPD-261 |
| 3:27 pm | Other | 5 min | AUPD-261 |
| 4:21 pm | Call for service | 3 min | AUPD-261 |
| 4:47 pm | Other | 6 min | AUPD-261 |
| 4:55 pm | Other | 11 min | AUPD-261 |
| 5:21 pm | Other | 10 min | AUPD-261 |
| 6:51 pm | Other | 21 min | AUPD-261 |
| 7:06 pm | Other | 15 min | AUPD-261 |
| 7:33 pm | Other | 22 min | AUPD-261 |
| 8:06 pm | Call for service | 8 min | AUPD-261 |
| 8:21 pm | Other | 9 min | AUPD-261 |
| 8:39 pm | Other | 24 min | AUPD-261 |
| 10:22 pm | Other | 25 min | AUPD-261 |
| 10:50 pm | Other | 5 min | AUPD-261 |
How this page is made
- Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
- Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
- The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
- 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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