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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Friday 28 November 2025

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

11

drone flights over Rochester that day.

3:05 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:37 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 11 times on Friday 28 November 2025, the first at 3:05 pm and the last at 10:37 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.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service91%
  2. Events9%

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
3:05 pmCall for service17 min40594b83
3:30 pmCall for service12 min1226fd38
4:28 pmEvents14 min500493e4
4:51 pmCall for service19 min8566bb34
5:58 pmCall for service2 minca58e059
8:27 pmCall for service14 min51695732
8:43 pmCall for service3 min4507b731
9:06 pmCall for service50 s4c39f5be
9:07 pmCall for service6 minb1a73ae4
9:38 pmCall for service13 minf7d02dbf
10:37 pmCall for service17 mindd9b4449

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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