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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Thursday 11 December 2025

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

10

drone flights over Rochester that day.

10:04 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:26 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 10 times on Thursday 11 December 2025, the first at 10:04 am and the last at 9:26 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service40%
  2. Events30%
  3. Traffic and crashes20%
  4. Training and testing10%

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
10:04 amCall for service10 min0dd3be53
10:33 amCall for service13 minfc0c9c6a
2:32 pmTraffic and crashes3 min2802e024
5:00 pmTraining and testing1 min 47 s085f9fe8
5:20 pmEvents9 min1ecf87a5
6:40 pmEvents16 mineeaecbc6
7:57 pmEvents5 minb46c56b7
8:07 pmTraffic and crashes8 min226d3eb5
8:23 pmCall for service4 min6a6c55cb
9:26 pmCall for service9 min8a9f7468

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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