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Rochester, Minnesota · one day

Saturday 26 September 2026

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

15

drone flights over Rochester that day.

1:16 pm

first takeoff; the last was at 10:24 pm.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester police drones flew 15 times on Saturday 26 September 2026, the first at 1:16 pm and the last at 10:24 pm CDT, by Rochester Police Department's published record.

15 drawable flights of 15. 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 service93%
  2. Events7%

Flights, in order

15 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
1:16 pmCall for service13 mind9320bfd
2:48 pmCall for service11 min74f2988d
4:52 pmCall for service15 min5705b15d
5:55 pmCall for service10 min268388a0
6:06 pmCall for service9 mina1565693
6:11 pmCall for service7 mina7abd3aa
6:50 pmCall for service11 min65bde09e
7:31 pmCall for service8 minf930dbef
8:02 pmCall for service10 min8b2936df
8:24 pmCall for service6 min2f430087
8:38 pmCall for service17 minb509feb1
9:20 pmCall for service13 minf03a7b18
10:00 pmCall for service8 min85a5189e
10:01 pmCall for service13 min3c1151d8
10:24 pmEvents17 min842c3468

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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