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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Saturday 6 June 2026

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

21

drone flights over Rochester that day.

12:09 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:44 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 21 times on Saturday 6 June 2026, the first at 12:09 am and the last at 11:44 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. 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 service81%
  2. Training and testing14%
  3. Search5%

Flights, in order

21 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
12:09 amCall for service6 mince7d7c89
12:42 amCall for service22 min9f3aa095
1:12 amCall for service15 mine3cfc6d4
2:37 amCall for service23 min88cd60bc
2:25 pmCall for service9 mind81df263
2:59 pmCall for service8 minb96431e1
3:32 pmTraining and testing1 min 16 scef3731b
3:34 pmTraining and testing1 min 00 s70575b92
3:50 pmCall for service11 min8a7e4ab8
4:32 pmSearch20 min5973b087
5:06 pmCall for service3 mina1b6542a
6:12 pmCall for service13 min2335f9cd
7:35 pmCall for service17 min120ef90b
7:54 pmCall for service16 mina4ab6cb2
9:35 pmCall for service19 mina87ee36e
10:15 pmCall for service9 min0e138459
10:24 pmCall for service15 min2b652008
10:49 pmCall for service9 mind1ccd8b8
11:07 pmCall for service7 min61d4fd59
11:33 pmTraining and testing4 mine3632b93
11:44 pmCall for service11 min7a1ec551

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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