6
drone flights over Rochester that day.
7:22 am
first takeoff; the last was at 4:40 pm.
7 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Rochester police drones flew 6 times on Thursday 29 January 2026, the first at 7:22 am and the last at 4:40 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:22 am | Events | 15 min | 74ee7461 |
| 10:53 am | Events | 7 min | 892775d8 |
| 12:28 pm | Events | 13 min | fbccd0d0 |
| 2:52 pm | Training and testing | 8 min | 0c413858 |
| 4:00 pm | Training and testing | 5 min | ae6bcaf4 |
| 4:40 pm | Training and testing | 3 min | 1b2fe245 |
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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