drone flights over Rochester that day.

12:08 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:52 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 14 times on Saturday 4 October 2025, the first at 12:08 am and the last at 11:52 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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

Call for service79%
Events14%
Training and testing7%

Flights, in order

14 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)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
12:08 am	Call for service	7 min	`4e73659c`
12:44 am	Call for service	6 min	`fbdaccfc`
1:34 am	Call for service	14 min	`a7b7cd40`
2:11 am	Call for service	4 min	`0b1ed7ec`
2:35 am	Call for service	9 min	`43383b46`
5:25 pm	Events	4 min	`0bc7dada`
5:39 pm	Events	15 min	`2dff1951`
6:10 pm	Call for service	2 min	`600913d5`
8:04 pm	Training and testing	1 min 16 s	`fb7cd819`
8:13 pm	Call for service	17 min	`5d3e80d2`
10:13 pm	Call for service	17 min	`94d41154`
11:19 pm	Call for service	3 min	`69409ee7`
11:22 pm	Call for service	11 min	`95e285e9`
11:52 pm	Call for service	14 min	`40194b37`

How this page is made

Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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