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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Tuesday 2 December 2025

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

11

drone flights over Rochester that day.

9:44 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:19 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 11 times on Tuesday 2 December 2025, the first at 9:44 am and the last at 11:19 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 service73%
  2. Training and testing18%
  3. Other9%

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
9:44 amTraining and testing51 se3732f9c
10:23 amTraining and testing53 s8fb4fa29
1:57 pmCall for service12 min18f9d530
3:16 pmCall for service15 min3b8972be
3:49 pmCall for service14 min7bcae446
5:13 pmOther6 mine4a28f10
6:07 pmCall for service10 minbe7f94a2
8:31 pmCall for service11 minc26c26ad
9:50 pmCall for service10 min4d41a580
10:02 pmCall for service10 min40f1b0c9
11:19 pmCall for service4 min2255d7fe

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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