6
drone flights over Rochester that day.
12:36 am
first takeoff; the last was at 11:27 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Rochester police drones flew 6 times on Saturday 18 July 2026, the first at 12:36 am and the last at 11:27 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
6 listable flights. Flights in the latest full month link to their own page.
| Takeoff (CDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:36 am | Events | 9 min | c7d081b7 |
| 7:31 pm | Call for service | 6 min | be7c709b |
| 7:48 pm | Call for service | 12 min | a5a2de32 |
| 9:28 pm | Call for service | 12 min | 383b15b4 |
| 10:36 pm | Call for service | 7 min | 1b4a4582 |
| 11:27 pm | Events | 9 min | 394271f1 |
How this page is made
- Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
- Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
- The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
- 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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