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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Saturday 20 June 2026

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

13

drone flights over Rochester that day.

10:44 am

first takeoff; the last was at 9:40 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 13 times on Saturday 20 June 2026, the first at 10:44 am and the last at 9:40 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. Call for service92%
  2. Not stated8%

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
10:44 amNot stated9 mind31bf089
11:16 amCall for service10 min513c8fbf
11:50 amCall for service4 min7b545c72
1:12 pmCall for service8 min6a4007aa
1:32 pmCall for service6 min430323f0
2:53 pmCall for service8 min561f69c1
3:31 pmCall for service14 min244b0862
4:24 pmCall for service11 min9e28ece4
5:34 pmCall for service11 min772ecceb
6:43 pmCall for service12 min6c8145ee
7:13 pmCall for service9 mina37788aa
8:40 pmCall for service12 minbd6f4632
9:40 pmCall for service8 min09e2b33e

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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