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  4. February 2026
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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Saturday 28 February 2026

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

13

drone flights over Rochester that day.

12:09 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:54 pm.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 13 times on Saturday 28 February 2026, the first at 12:09 am and the last at 10:54 pm CST, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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 service38%
  2. Events38%
  3. Training and testing23%

Flights, in order

13 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
12:09 amCall for service8 mine7df96ce
12:19 amCall for service6 min27923a39
12:44 amCall for service5 min1aeda270
1:06 amCall for service14 min8ea00bd5
1:55 amCall for service6 min9b1460e3
2:11 amEvents11 min3ff489f4
2:25 amTraining and testing1 min 54 s4b4cd982
2:31 amTraining and testing7 minb23a7163
6:52 pmEvents6 min113b72b5
7:30 pmEvents10 min415acd65
8:56 pmEvents16 minc7f5ddf7
9:27 pmEvents12 minf343503c
10:54 pmTraining and testing1 min 56 s2b0bd30b

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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