5
drone flights over Rochester that day.
10:00 am
first takeoff; the last was at 9:31 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Rochester police drones flew 5 times on Saturday 15 August 2026, the first at 10:00 am and the last at 9:31 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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 am | Call for service | 20 min | 91b569cd |
| 3:12 pm | Call for service | 19 min | 9350c758 |
| 4:13 pm | Call for service | 7 min | b78efb64 |
| 5:31 pm | Call for service | 9 min | 8b05c174 |
| 9:31 pm | Call for service | 1 min 12 s | 800c67b0 |
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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