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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Thursday 6 November 2025

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

12

drone flights over Rochester that day.

12:21 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:16 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 12 times on Thursday 6 November 2025, the first at 12:21 am and the last at 10:16 pm CST, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

12 drawable flights of 12. 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service75%
  2. Training and testing25%

Flights, in order

12 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
12:21 amCall for service10 min96f47496
12:44 amCall for service1 min 55 sc312c63f
12:59 amCall for service13 mina0064887
9:56 amCall for service11 min5fc290c0
3:56 pmTraining and testing47 s94a67c3f
5:57 pmCall for service12 mine558690f
7:23 pmCall for service11 minde0fd31e
8:00 pmCall for service7 min088a0463
8:59 pmTraining and testing1 min 14 sfb4bcc46
9:35 pmCall for service8 min63755b15
9:56 pmCall for service16 min7d0be7aa
10:16 pmTraining and testing1 min 23 s6438618f

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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