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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Saturday 11 October 2025

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

11

drone flights over Rochester that day.

1:21 am

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

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 11 times on Saturday 11 October 2025, the first at 1:21 am and the last at 11:58 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

11 drawable flights of 11. 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. Events55%
  2. Call for service27%
  3. Search9%
  4. Other9%

Flights, in order

11 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
1:21 amEvents8 min81727fcb
1:30 amEvents11 min749b7a32
2:41 amCall for service12 min781d09a7
6:37 pmSearch1 min 49 s9d7305a9
6:40 pmEvents6 min0b44e400
7:28 pmCall for service8 min57137f5b
8:12 pmCall for service8 min44adf37b
8:46 pmOther11 min8084aff5
10:29 pmEvents10 minf07f7b7e
11:27 pmEvents17 min9df0e507
11:58 pmEvents6 min530fd8f0

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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