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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Saturday 25 April 2026

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

22

drone flights over Rochester that day.

1:03 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:58 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 22 times on Saturday 25 April 2026, the first at 1:03 pm and the last at 10:58 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

22 drawable flights of 22. 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. Call for service45%
  2. Events45%
  3. Training and testing9%

Flights, in order

22 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
1:03 pmCall for service10 min9e5bf04b
1:22 pmEvents13 min55661ae3
2:09 pmTraining and testing43 s7f874ac0
2:16 pmEvents9 minfac97028
3:21 pmTraining and testing10 min58d1182a
4:06 pmCall for service14 min9a1d4d96
4:12 pmCall for service14 min73596b42
4:37 pmCall for service22 min4ef3f2bf
5:17 pmCall for service11 minc9df0caf
5:43 pmCall for service12 minf5627a09
6:37 pmCall for service16 min60ee29a5
6:50 pmCall for service13 min22df6f58
7:32 pmCall for service20 min20b9bfbe
7:43 pmEvents8 min857e3c10
8:00 pmEvents1 min 23 s9b070257
8:14 pmCall for service17 mina7c85c58
8:20 pmEvents9 minb1a3ef95
8:49 pmEvents18 minafc15436
9:38 pmEvents13 mineb3231b5
10:16 pmEvents14 min5e4b203a
10:52 pmEvents3 mina1bd5a7f
10:58 pmEvents8 min75608f3a

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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