6
drone flights over Rochester that day.
8:10 pm
first takeoff; the last was at 11:55 pm.
12 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Rochester police drones flew 6 times on Saturday 31 January 2026, the first at 8:10 pm and the last at 11:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:10 pm | Training and testing | 3 min | d3f5e80a |
| 8:21 pm | Events | 14 min | c3201d2e |
| 9:20 pm | Call for service | 14 min | 0ad02d5e |
| 10:05 pm | Events | 12 min | 327d5e6a |
| 11:40 pm | Call for service | 8 min | 85139c11 |
| 11:55 pm | Call for service | 11 min | 4bfd2ed2 |
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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