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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Tuesday 9 June 2026

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

18

drone flights over Rochester that day.

12:23 am

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

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 18 times on Tuesday 9 June 2026, the first at 12:23 am and the last at 10:29 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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. Events67%
  2. Call for service33%

Flights, in order

18 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
12:23 amCall for service15 min045ce780
12:52 amCall for service9 mina2f36b7e
4:14 amCall for service15 mina3afd5a2
6:27 amEvents22 minb5fdef70
7:28 amEvents23 mincac014ff
7:57 amEvents23 min04274d1e
11:01 amCall for service17 min8d9bd1d2
12:43 pmEvents9 mine6ce3360
1:19 pmCall for service20 mind1bac398
4:37 pmEvents21 min395236cd
4:49 pmCall for service16 min39aa8877
5:30 pmEvents15 min512e5cf3
5:35 pmEvents16 min923c253d
6:17 pmEvents13 min99934a78
8:46 pmEvents13 min990d9352
9:33 pmEvents6 minf8a0f4ac
9:35 pmEvents18 mina78780c1
10:29 pmEvents13 min0ccaf943

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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