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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Thursday 30 October 2025

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

29

drone flights over Rochester that day.

12:57 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:53 pm.

6 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 29 times on Thursday 30 October 2025, the first at 12:57 am and the last at 11:53 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

29 drawable flights of 29. 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 service59%
  2. Training and testing38%
  3. Events3%

Flights, in order

29 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
12:57 amCall for service14 min6a5f19eb
1:40 amCall for service8 min6d1f238d
2:22 amCall for service6 minb7cd6298
2:31 amCall for service17 mind8b9a394
2:53 amCall for service17 min90e38969
4:20 amCall for service20 mina897682b
9:06 amTraining and testing43 s81452856
12:44 pmCall for service19 minfeaaf838
1:59 pmTraining and testing3 minfee39871
2:06 pmTraining and testing3 min137448bf
2:10 pmTraining and testing2 mina44ce6fb
2:18 pmTraining and testing1 min 20 s61e67e82
2:23 pmTraining and testing1 min 06 s397653eb
2:25 pmTraining and testing1 min 21 sff5acc62
2:27 pmTraining and testing1 min 58 s1a98ae47
2:31 pmTraining and testing1 min 11 sbc8c34f0
2:36 pmTraining and testing3 min9827a00a
3:19 pmCall for service6 min1e5a882e
3:33 pmCall for service9 min2630c2bc
4:17 pmCall for service13 min4bdb783b
4:22 pmEvents6 min5c7d3e27
4:57 pmCall for service3 min49db3d66
5:21 pmTraining and testing1 min 07 s339f1398
5:45 pmCall for service2 mind851fbdb
5:50 pmCall for service12 minc0d37951
6:04 pmCall for service14 min607cc3a0
7:00 pmCall for service4 mineabdd66b
7:54 pmCall for service18 min1101ea12
11:53 pmCall for service6 minece8bba4

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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