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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Saturday 15 November 2025

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

19

drone flights over Rochester that day.

12:30 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:33 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 19 times on Saturday 15 November 2025, the first at 12:30 am and the last at 11:33 pm CST, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

19 drawable flights of 19. 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 service42%
  2. Events26%
  3. Other16%
  4. Training and testing16%

Flights, in order

19 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
12:30 amCall for service1 min 14 s2b2cdea8
12:32 amOther17 min90842c53
12:54 amTraining and testing2 min53eb3686
12:58 amTraining and testing1 min 41 s90b70f1c
1:09 amCall for service10 minb9c12b20
1:34 amCall for service6 min9892d8fa
1:55 amCall for service16 minba3ea278
3:00 amOther11 mine53c4dc5
5:16 pmCall for service12 minf55afce1
5:51 pmCall for service7 min8df77203
6:15 pmCall for service38 sb17920d8
7:05 pmEvents13 minc1f3c12d
8:09 pmEvents11 mincb4a7115
8:23 pmCall for service9 minbc5d77c8
8:28 pmEvents14 min65716388
9:35 pmEvents18 minb5002cc0
10:32 pmOther6 minac904555
10:47 pmTraining and testing3 min02b8ee05
11:33 pmEvents5 minf4055592

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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