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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Monday 10 August 2026

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

7

drone flights over Rochester that day.

1:11 am

first takeoff; the last was at 5:52 pm.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 7 times on Monday 10 August 2026, the first at 1:11 am and the last at 5:52 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

7 drawable flights of 7. 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 service71%
  2. Events14%
  3. Search14%

Flights, in order

7 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
1:11 amCall for service10 minb7e1052c
2:05 amCall for service21 min885976db
8:25 amEvents6 mine17beb72
8:54 amCall for service9 min0101d610
9:10 amCall for service6 min47d5f460
9:56 amSearch9 minf560b058
5:52 pmCall for service15 mina1f0ef05

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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