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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Friday 12 June 2026

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

12

drone flights over Rochester that day.

6:55 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:28 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 12 times on Friday 12 June 2026, the first at 6:55 am and the last at 10:28 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

12 drawable flights of 12. 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 service75%
  2. Events17%
  3. Other8%

Flights, in order

12 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
6:55 amEvents9 min3f0011a9
7:45 amOther12 min463ef35f
9:57 amEvents13 mine92f45bb
12:34 pmCall for service4 min0549ffd2
2:02 pmCall for service6 mind5e87849
7:23 pmCall for service5 minab0f2eae
8:16 pmCall for service18 minfd8aad47
8:28 pmCall for service7 min6f57b5d4
8:50 pmCall for service18 min5095c940
9:11 pmCall for service10 min5bd231cf
10:00 pmCall for service4 min5124db19
10:28 pmCall for service10 min8a40d1ce

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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