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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Thursday 4 June 2026

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

16

drone flights over Rochester that day.

9:32 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:29 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 16 times on Thursday 4 June 2026, the first at 9:32 am and the last at 10:29 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service56%
  2. Events38%
  3. Traffic and crashes6%

Flights, in order

16 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
9:32 amCall for service8 min82d9169e
12:52 pmCall for service15 minf1eb9acb
2:02 pmCall for service8 min1eebc6a7
4:15 pmCall for service20 min6355f9a3
4:41 pmCall for service33 sf66dc858
4:42 pmEvents36 s95dbe5ea
4:59 pmTraffic and crashes8 min73cf82ae
5:06 pmCall for service6 min9166d63e
5:25 pmCall for service6 min633eb87a
5:48 pmEvents4 min0acc5710
5:53 pmEvents9 min20abc61c
6:12 pmEvents10 mindb015c54
6:26 pmCall for service10 mind96097d3
8:11 pmCall for service7 min2e657d84
8:40 pmEvents8 min0d0a5811
10:29 pmEvents15 min07f43fb6

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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