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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Thursday 20 November 2025

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

10

drone flights over Rochester that day.

4:52 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:42 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 10 times on Thursday 20 November 2025, the first at 4:52 pm and the last at 11:42 pm CST, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

10 drawable flights of 10. 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 service50%
  2. Training and testing40%
  3. Other10%

Flights, in order

10 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
4:52 pmTraining and testing2 min7e17584c
4:56 pmTraining and testing9 mind267ded3
5:14 pmOther6 mindaf99191
5:54 pmCall for service17 min09075d4d
7:09 pmCall for service10 min7ffdf3df
7:23 pmTraining and testing6 min9d0ebd4a
9:43 pmCall for service1 min 41 sfcfcd2f6
9:56 pmCall for service15 minfab865e0
10:34 pmCall for service14 min894a68f6
11:42 pmTraining and testing6 mindc5c4b26

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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