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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Wednesday 4 March 2026

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

19

drone flights over Rochester that day.

10:33 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:58 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 19 times on Wednesday 4 March 2026, the first at 10:33 am and the last at 11:58 pm CST, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

19 drawable flights of 19. 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. Events42%
  2. Call for service32%
  3. Training and testing21%
  4. Traffic and crashes5%

Flights, in order

19 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
10:33 amEvents15 mina21bd218
11:25 amEvents9 min9d388e98
11:47 amCall for service9 mincbde13f2
1:30 pmCall for service12 min5aed9549
4:18 pmEvents4 mina9ec2680
5:22 pmTraffic and crashes16 min8abfe629
5:42 pmCall for service13 min48f92f68
6:08 pmCall for service4 minda284eeb
6:14 pmCall for service18 minf5a7faa3
6:52 pmTraining and testing2 min8b7ba58b
7:04 pmTraining and testing7 min09e188ec
7:24 pmEvents12 min0dece242
8:34 pmCall for service10 min66c16645
9:20 pmEvents5 min22a1f615
9:39 pmEvents16 min655848b8
10:26 pmTraining and testing3 mincc357c2e
10:31 pmTraining and testing1 min 24 s0ba3de3d
11:23 pmEvents8 min7e4dc9d4
11:58 pmEvents11 min12093347

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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