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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Tuesday 16 December 2025

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

11

drone flights over Rochester that day.

12:24 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:49 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 11 times on Tuesday 16 December 2025, the first at 12:24 am and the last at 10:49 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 service45%
  2. Events18%
  3. Other18%
  4. Traffic and crashes9%
  5. Training and testing9%

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
12:24 amEvents8 minf99798da
12:40 amCall for service8 min8e2667dc
2:17 amEvents16 minfd08838f
3:01 amCall for service11 minc0eda4a8
9:53 amOther18 min15ce0095
3:34 pmTraffic and crashes10 mincb1b774a
5:29 pmTraining and testing1 min 55 s7050e387
5:58 pmCall for service6 min11d3ef70
6:16 pmCall for service12 mina609b377
10:29 pmCall for service7 min45e3fa91
10:49 pmOther13 mind99cc068

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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