drone flights over Rochester that day.

1:38 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:56 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 14 times on Tuesday 30 June 2026, the first at 1:38 pm and the last at 10:56 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

14 drawable flights of 14. 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

Call for service64%
Events14%
Training and testing7%
Other7%
Search7%

Flights, in order

14 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)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
1:38 pm	Events	18 min	`93b00ad3`
2:09 pm	Training and testing	1 min 03 s	`a3df6db0`
2:24 pm	Events	9 min	`729de7c3`
2:36 pm	Other	4 min	`d10373ce`
3:16 pm	Call for service	1 min 06 s	`646053f1`
5:21 pm	Call for service	14 min	`dd28058a`
5:47 pm	Call for service	13 min	`d3f06af7`
6:01 pm	Call for service	11 min	`732d695a`
6:34 pm	Call for service	11 min	`d9b2fb74`
6:46 pm	Call for service	9 min	`ac055b18`
7:54 pm	Call for service	9 min	`b314149e`
8:02 pm	Call for service	16 min	`76642a38`
9:52 pm	Call for service	17 min	`50c8e6e4`
10:56 pm	Search	11 min	`080d5dd3`

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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