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  4. June 2026
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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Monday 8 June 2026

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

24

drone flights over Rochester that day.

5:57 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:52 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 24 times on Monday 8 June 2026, the first at 5:57 am and the last at 11:52 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

24 drawable flights of 24. 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 service54%
  2. Training and testing21%
  3. Events17%
  4. Not stated8%

Flights, in order

24 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
5:57 amTraining and testing2 mind95bf455
6:03 amCall for service13 min5eb8881f
6:25 amCall for service6 mind6d4aa46
6:38 amEvents6 min96f12d49
7:13 amEvents17 mina069e1bd
7:36 amEvents22 min5a11ba93
8:01 amEvents22 min8c497c53
2:30 pmTraining and testing1 min 43 s2cdb4613
2:34 pmTraining and testing1 min 06 s51f05587
2:37 pmCall for service15 min163b1ade
2:42 pmCall for service15 mind214ca5e
3:23 pmNot stated4 min9e34d44d
3:28 pmNot stated12 min6e054978
4:30 pmTraining and testing5 minfb52c5a0
4:41 pmCall for service12 min198c2b77
5:20 pmCall for service13 min3e0d1489
5:58 pmCall for service9 minb6651ab4
6:16 pmCall for service20 min6d449603
6:17 pmCall for service10 minf424eff8
8:00 pmCall for service7 min0d6f026a
8:45 pmTraining and testing1 min 29 sb4f2405e
9:02 pmCall for service9 min25e543a6
10:18 pmCall for service13 min6fe547aa
11:52 pmCall for service8 minbf7644b1

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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