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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Thursday 25 September 2025

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

31

drone flights over Rochester that day.

8:44 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:36 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 31 times on Thursday 25 September 2025, the first at 8:44 am and the last at 11:36 pm CDT, by Rochester 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, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service45%
  2. Training and testing23%
  3. Search13%
  4. Events10%
  5. Other6%
  6. 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 (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
8:44 amEvents11 min8aad29e9
9:36 amCall for service4 mina16c1a0a
9:44 amCall for service8 minff9bfde5
10:38 amSearch19 min7529c957
11:06 amTraining and testing4 min3c90ecea
11:43 amEvents8 min059c5a3a
12:02 pmSearch19 min8c447f46
1:38 pmCall for service12 min7c3d2be6
2:00 pmTraining and testing43 sd7e867e4
2:02 pmCall for service10 minb31fe7d3
2:37 pmCall for service18 min1cb5b14d
3:17 pmTraffic and crashes16 min9e26c160
4:37 pmCall for service19 mine1061102
5:01 pmCall for service8 min372398e0
5:21 pmTraining and testing8 min58404a1a
5:35 pmTraining and testing8 minff7140c0
6:05 pmCall for service15 min21c101f8
6:36 pmCall for service8 min827f66a0
6:51 pmSearch14 min925edddf
6:52 pmSearch14 min83ecf8e0
7:25 pmTraining and testing7 min6da37a86
7:25 pmCall for service5 min9952c1e6
7:50 pmTraining and testing54 s05d9f67e
8:16 pmOther8 min057a664c
8:31 pmCall for service8 mindc8b9a0b
8:38 pmCall for service6 min780f4152
8:53 pmOther14 min1d76f50b
8:55 pmCall for service13 mine2e0dc4d
9:30 pmCall for service18 min82bbae8a
11:14 pmEvents6 min06157554
11:36 pmTraining and testing54 s529e9c5b

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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