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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Wednesday 4 February 2026

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

11

drone flights over Rochester that day.

7:02 am

first takeoff; the last was at 3:43 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 11 times on Wednesday 4 February 2026, the first at 7:02 am and the last at 3:43 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 service64%
  2. Training and testing27%
  3. Events9%

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
7:02 amTraining and testing8 mindc811400
8:12 amCall for service11 min58409094
8:48 amCall for service12 min349346d2
9:23 amTraining and testing42 sdf73f2aa
9:34 amCall for service13 mine18874ff
10:18 amCall for service5 minba3d9361
10:38 amCall for service10 min245947c3
11:19 amTraining and testing4 min55fdbf1f
11:45 amCall for service7 minb0be2ad2
2:13 pmCall for service13 min83f9cfb3
3:43 pmEvents13 min01132f87

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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