8
drone flights over Rochester that day.
1:00 am
first takeoff; the last was at 6:23 pm.
17 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Rochester police drones flew 8 times on Tuesday 4 August 2026, the first at 1:00 am and the last at 6:23 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, CDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 am | Events | 15 min | 87ef247e |
| 1:40 am | Events | 14 min | a3118327 |
| 1:36 pm | Call for service | 19 min | 567d90e8 |
| 2:46 pm | Call for service | 16 min | b0decd81 |
| 3:08 pm | Call for service | 19 min | 515a4341 |
| 3:40 pm | Call for service | 19 min | 2e6b36a4 |
| 4:08 pm | Events | 8 min | 8f0036d3 |
| 6:23 pm | Call for service | 18 min | f0fe3a51 |
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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