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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Friday 6 February 2026

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

10

drone flights over Rochester that day.

4:37 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 11:50 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 10 times on Friday 6 February 2026, the first at 4:37 pm and the last at 11:50 pm CST, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

10 drawable flights of 10. 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 service60%
  2. Events20%
  3. Training and testing10%
  4. Search10%

Flights, in order

10 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
4:37 pmTraining and testing4 mine0ffd04a
4:46 pmCall for service8 minf8cbe202
6:45 pmCall for service21 minbe39e65f
7:27 pmCall for service9 min3bf7cf94
8:04 pmEvents18 min844b98e5
9:23 pmCall for service5 min528e1f84
9:39 pmEvents6 min39e1ad25
10:14 pmSearch14 minc491bb35
10:51 pmCall for service9 min2903d567
11:50 pmCall for service6 min57c6965b

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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