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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Tuesday 2 June 2026

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

22

drone flights over Rochester that day.

8:00 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:38 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 22 times on Tuesday 2 June 2026, the first at 8:00 am and the last at 11:38 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. Events36%
  3. Training and testing18%

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
8:00 amEvents13 min4b5a627a
1:25 pmTraining and testing5 min56471304
3:45 pmEvents18 min8348c996
4:24 pmEvents21 minc6948b71
4:43 pmCall for service7 mina136366a
4:49 pmEvents22 minabdaf5a6
5:13 pmEvents20 min8bd86560
5:36 pmEvents10 minfe4a501c
5:46 pmCall for service11 min21abc38c
6:19 pmCall for service11 min5c65b271
6:59 pmTraining and testing7 min3442b579
7:15 pmTraining and testing8 min21ba5be8
7:27 pmTraining and testing7 min0cacc545
7:47 pmCall for service10 min7a75d9d2
8:06 pmEvents4 minabd5d715
8:10 pmCall for service17 min81db0268
8:13 pmCall for service10 min2a18621f
9:14 pmEvents8 min1075b50d
9:24 pmCall for service10 mine703bf97
9:24 pmCall for service13 minec5f3f05
9:58 pmCall for service14 min07e5924c
11:38 pmCall for service10 min291bb2cb

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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