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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Friday 5 June 2026

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

19

drone flights over Rochester that day.

1:19 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:47 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 19 times on Friday 5 June 2026, the first at 1:19 pm and the last at 10:47 pm CDT, 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, CDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service63%
  2. Training and testing21%
  3. Events11%
  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 (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
1:19 pmCall for service8 min5d811148
3:07 pmCall for service19 min18ccc7ce
3:08 pmCall for service9 min2bbd3949
3:25 pmCall for service14 minc292708d
4:11 pmCall for service19 min2296b1fb
4:47 pmTraining and testing3 min661caf0b
4:58 pmTraffic and crashes9 minc6402e88
6:21 pmCall for service16 mind35ecfbd
6:41 pmCall for service11 min2adde38f
7:02 pmTraining and testing2 min50baa46c
7:05 pmCall for service12 min7b0feba8
8:11 pmEvents9 mina8bc0660
8:25 pmCall for service12 min03d56467
9:16 pmEvents10 min75ddb55f
9:34 pmCall for service18 min0bea97a0
10:02 pmTraining and testing5 mina8eca9ad
10:03 pmTraining and testing4 minfcc77635
10:09 pmCall for service13 min43a45451
10:47 pmCall for service7 mineeb4cccd

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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