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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Tuesday 4 November 2025

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

11

drone flights over Rochester that day.

1:19 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:27 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 11 times on Tuesday 4 November 2025, the first at 1:19 am and the last at 11:27 pm CST, 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, CST.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service82%
  2. Other9%
  3. Training and testing9%

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 (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
1:19 amCall for service13 minff058535
3:28 pmCall for service14 min470005b5
4:13 pmOther7 min34ce1f18
5:51 pmCall for service14 min5c721003
6:04 pmTraining and testing3 min6d6ac5ce
6:25 pmCall for service24 min368bea79
7:17 pmCall for service3 min2b8c34e4
7:46 pmCall for service11 min88e4d939
8:11 pmCall for service16 min0ec7ef44
9:51 pmCall for service5 mina297de9a
11:27 pmCall for service14 minabd1ee50

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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