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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Tuesday 31 March 2026

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

27

drone flights over Rochester that day.

12:59 am

first takeoff; the last was at 6:20 pm.

3 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 27 times on Tuesday 31 March 2026, the first at 12:59 am and the last at 6:20 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

27 drawable flights of 27. 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, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Training and testing63%
  2. Call for service26%
  3. Events11%

Flights, in order

27 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 (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
12:59 amCall for service17 min52f337e8
2:54 amCall for service9 mincf62cefb
4:51 amCall for service13 minb63bf67e
5:06 amCall for service8 min4ed2663f
10:01 amCall for service4 min25aed101
1:08 pmTraining and testing9 minf3cad9d6
1:45 pmEvents13 min2eabb417
2:09 pmTraining and testing2 min51f20f25
2:13 pmTraining and testing2 min24d18809
2:17 pmTraining and testing1 min 48 s0a61c770
2:17 pmTraining and testing6 min8f40a754
2:21 pmTraining and testing1 min 18 s8d894ad2
2:32 pmTraining and testing1 min 50 s59e41e2b
2:37 pmTraining and testing1 min 29 s64eb366c
2:40 pmTraining and testing3 min0de45048
2:45 pmTraining and testing2 min22055de9
2:49 pmTraining and testing3 min6a0901fe
2:54 pmTraining and testing2 min874e8715
2:57 pmTraining and testing1 min 36 sc263e269
3:01 pmTraining and testing1 min 29 s19edb211
3:06 pmCall for service13 min8b96bf16
3:17 pmTraining and testing3 min83360a15
3:22 pmTraining and testing2 min6413718a
4:06 pmCall for service8 mind874d502
4:43 pmEvents14 mine2da25b7
5:48 pmEvents2 minc0ea0585
6:20 pmTraining and testing3 minfd967e5b

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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