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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Wednesday 31 December 2025

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

8

drone flights over Rochester that day.

5:06 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:35 pm.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 8 times on Wednesday 31 December 2025, the first at 5:06 pm and the last at 10:35 pm CST, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

8 drawable flights of 8. 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 service100%

Flights, in order

8 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
5:06 pmCall for service14 min44e72372
5:43 pmCall for service18 mina7476941
6:42 pmCall for service4 minddfacc75
7:28 pmCall for service8 min5d00a860
7:52 pmCall for service18 mina9b94a27
9:15 pmCall for service9 mindb5fcabe
10:01 pmCall for service15 min25a38230
10:35 pmCall for service13 min8c94a65b

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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