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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Friday 26 June 2026

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

16

drone flights over Rochester that day.

9:31 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:20 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 16 times on Friday 26 June 2026, the first at 9:31 am and the last at 11:20 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

16 drawable flights of 16. 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.

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Why, in the agency's words

  1. Call for service75%
  2. Training and testing19%
  3. Search6%

Flights, in order

16 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
9:31 amTraining and testing3 minf7993103
11:10 amCall for service14 mine4a25e47
2:54 pmCall for service20 min9613586b
3:26 pmTraining and testing1 min 38 s40a15bfa
3:44 pmTraining and testing1 min 33 s7971ca82
3:47 pmCall for service14 mina9761461
4:48 pmCall for service12 min806b1875
5:06 pmCall for service10 min8db55de9
6:56 pmSearch7 min65481010
7:20 pmCall for service4 min2d6a3845
7:40 pmCall for service11 min3802bac6
9:09 pmCall for service7 min03aebb98
9:20 pmCall for service16 min85cb75e1
9:54 pmCall for service3 minf2c428be
10:53 pmCall for service5 minc953c886
11:20 pmCall for service18 mind0c5de35

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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