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  4. June 2026
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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Thursday 11 June 2026

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

13

drone flights over Rochester that day.

10:36 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:39 pm.

8 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 13 times on Thursday 11 June 2026, the first at 10:36 am and the last at 9:39 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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. Training and testing38%
  2. Call for service38%
  3. Traffic and crashes15%
  4. Events8%

Flights, in order

13 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
10:36 amTraining and testing7 min7f1f6317
10:46 amTraining and testing4 mind0cbe0e2
11:04 amTraining and testing1 min 55 sdc7282ae
11:42 amEvents9 min6b4f7c91
11:54 amCall for service12 min4594ca93
12:24 pmTraffic and crashes8 min91b63f50
12:33 pmTraining and testing2 min8c7ba645
1:32 pmTraining and testing3 min6699d933
4:39 pmCall for service10 mind6a7e1f8
4:44 pmTraffic and crashes13 minfa04954b
7:29 pmCall for service11 min8731be36
8:18 pmCall for service14 min8fa00951
9:39 pmCall for service6 min605cfb45

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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