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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Saturday 18 October 2025

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

21

drone flights over Rochester that day.

12:12 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:35 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 21 times on Saturday 18 October 2025, the first at 12:12 am and the last at 11:35 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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 service52%
  2. Other19%
  3. Events19%
  4. Training and testing10%

Flights, in order

21 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
12:12 amOther12 min53611b24
12:51 amEvents5 min0da41368
1:42 amEvents12 minb93dc5d4
2:12 amEvents13 mindad8744a
9:28 amCall for service1 min 58 s19d43681
1:28 pmCall for service11 min7e1ca636
5:34 pmTraining and testing5 minf14e51d5
6:04 pmCall for service10 min08b03f5f
6:06 pmCall for service16 min174ea608
6:30 pmCall for service8 mind0c19a4d
6:31 pmCall for service9 min6a53b822
7:09 pmTraining and testing2 mind6e96b7d
7:35 pmCall for service16 min1d7fb54b
7:50 pmOther14 mind7089704
9:01 pmCall for service11 minbfad7b48
10:05 pmOther19 mincddb3bcd
10:08 pmCall for service15 minea3868f3
10:50 pmCall for service17 minae068b21
10:56 pmEvents5 minfb559750
11:09 pmOther17 mine73130dc
11:35 pmCall for service20 mina037ed9e

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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