9
drone flights over Rochester that day.
6:59 am
first takeoff; the last was at 3:05 pm.
13 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Rochester police drones flew 9 times on Monday 5 January 2026, the first at 6:59 am and the last at 3:05 pm CST, by Rochester Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CST.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
9 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) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:59 am | Events | 20 min | 2a3f8714 |
| 7:29 am | Events | 7 min | 7aa63237 |
| 10:25 am | Call for service | 20 min | df0e1ad8 |
| 10:49 am | Training and testing | 9 min | 68d1461a |
| 12:27 pm | Traffic and crashes | 13 min | 2c6e644c |
| 1:42 pm | Call for service | 2 min | 44896977 |
| 1:52 pm | Call for service | 16 min | 56e32a4f |
| 2:45 pm | Call for service | 8 min | 7a5d8b10 |
| 3:05 pm | Training and testing | 16 min | 44d8eef9 |
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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