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Rochester, Minnesota

Downtown, November 2025

A neighborhood page. 99 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in November 2025.

99

drone flights crossed Downtown.

99

of them in November 2025.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 99 times between 3 November 2025 and 28 November 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 November 2025.

99 of the 99 drawable flights that crossed the area in November 2025. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
DowntownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

16 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

41% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CST).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 99 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service64%
  2. Training and testing13%
  3. Events12%
  4. Other9%
  5. Not stated2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, November 2025

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 3 Nov 20257:26 pmTraining and testing1 min 33 s75aff29d
Mon 3 Nov 202510:11 pmCall for service11 mincd5f954e
Mon 3 Nov 202511:44 pmCall for service13 min83fc52ea
Tue 4 Nov 20253:28 pmCall for service14 min470005b5
Tue 4 Nov 20256:04 pmTraining and testing3 min6d6ac5ce
Tue 4 Nov 20256:25 pmCall for service24 min368bea79
Tue 4 Nov 20257:46 pmCall for service11 min88e4d939
Tue 4 Nov 20259:51 pmCall for service5 mina297de9a
Tue 4 Nov 202511:27 pmCall for service14 minabd1ee50
Wed 5 Nov 202512:19 amCall for service12 mina46df2cd
Wed 5 Nov 20251:09 amCall for service7 min54a5dcf5
Wed 5 Nov 20252:12 amCall for service11 min938360d9
Wed 5 Nov 20252:46 amCall for service15 min5b168c65
Wed 5 Nov 20259:28 amCall for service9 mindd8e54a7
Wed 5 Nov 20258:02 pmCall for service9 min7bf5a1a2
Wed 5 Nov 202510:04 pmCall for service8 min95371e5f
Wed 5 Nov 202510:41 pmCall for service47 sc121a564
Wed 5 Nov 202510:42 pmCall for service7 min1db65004
Thu 6 Nov 202512:59 amCall for service13 mina0064887
Thu 6 Nov 20255:57 pmCall for service12 mine558690f
Thu 6 Nov 20257:23 pmCall for service11 minde0fd31e
Thu 6 Nov 20258:59 pmTraining and testing1 min 14 sfb4bcc46
Thu 6 Nov 20259:56 pmCall for service16 min7d0be7aa
Fri 7 Nov 20257:40 amCall for service19 min79f8bf25
Fri 7 Nov 20258:34 amCall for service19 min38b3de51
Fri 7 Nov 20259:18 amCall for service18 minec35f84b
Fri 7 Nov 202510:45 amCall for service1 min 58 sc5f87d6a
Fri 7 Nov 202510:58 amOther1 min 00 sd8991d99
Fri 7 Nov 202511:14 amTraining and testing1 min 39 sceaf9dad
Fri 7 Nov 20252:27 pmCall for service11 min085237a7
Fri 7 Nov 20255:31 pmOther14 mind02f7c0e
Fri 7 Nov 20256:31 pmCall for service9 min555ca074
Fri 7 Nov 20256:57 pmCall for service6 minea97085e
Fri 7 Nov 20258:36 pmNot stated7 min336d4057
Fri 7 Nov 20258:49 pmCall for service12 min376b9086
Fri 7 Nov 202510:14 pmCall for service10 minfc960dda
Fri 7 Nov 202511:22 pmCall for service1 min 59 s1016bca5
Sat 8 Nov 202512:20 amCall for service10 min6d4ee35b
Sat 8 Nov 20252:33 amEvents5 min7fde4924
Sat 8 Nov 20259:35 pmEvents7 minc3b0ffee
Wed 12 Nov 202512:35 pmTraining and testing46 s8c316aad
Thu 13 Nov 20259:15 amNot stated21 minecb713e0
Thu 13 Nov 20257:13 pmCall for service10 mina405a51a
Thu 13 Nov 20257:36 pmOther10 min65d22d60
Thu 13 Nov 20258:20 pmOther4 min5cf56544
Thu 13 Nov 20258:59 pmOther16 min92b95b03
Thu 13 Nov 20259:46 pmEvents15 min24a02e61
Fri 14 Nov 20254:42 pmTraining and testing5 min75bef065
Fri 14 Nov 20258:34 pmCall for service10 min73eb251c
Fri 14 Nov 202510:16 pmOther19 mind48784aa
Fri 14 Nov 202511:48 pmCall for service11 minecf0eb2b
Sat 15 Nov 202512:30 amCall for service1 min 14 s2b2cdea8
Sat 15 Nov 202512:54 amTraining and testing2 min53eb3686
Sat 15 Nov 202512:58 amTraining and testing1 min 41 s90b70f1c
Sat 15 Nov 20251:34 amCall for service6 min9892d8fa
Sat 15 Nov 20251:55 amCall for service16 minba3ea278
Sat 15 Nov 20255:51 pmCall for service7 min8df77203
Sat 15 Nov 20256:15 pmCall for service38 sb17920d8
Sat 15 Nov 20258:09 pmEvents11 mincb4a7115
Sat 15 Nov 20258:23 pmCall for service9 minbc5d77c8
Sat 15 Nov 202510:32 pmOther6 minac904555
Sat 15 Nov 202510:47 pmTraining and testing3 min02b8ee05
Sat 15 Nov 202511:33 pmEvents5 minf4055592
Sun 16 Nov 202512:09 amTraining and testing1 min 34 s665fb72d
Sun 16 Nov 202512:42 amCall for service8 min70fce6e2
Sun 16 Nov 20251:37 amOther7 mina6c8e4a7
Tue 18 Nov 202511:28 amTraining and testing10 min04c57efa
Tue 18 Nov 20252:25 pmCall for service20 minafbce83f
Thu 20 Nov 20255:14 pmOther6 mindaf99191
Thu 20 Nov 20257:09 pmCall for service10 min7ffdf3df
Thu 20 Nov 20259:43 pmCall for service1 min 41 sfcfcd2f6
Thu 20 Nov 20259:56 pmCall for service15 minfab865e0
Thu 20 Nov 202510:34 pmCall for service14 min894a68f6
Fri 21 Nov 20251:33 amEvents10 min5ae42570
Fri 21 Nov 20257:57 amCall for service7 mina4cfda7d
Fri 21 Nov 20259:57 amCall for service1 min 42 s4a658709
Fri 21 Nov 202511:09 amCall for service15 mind63ceb8e
Fri 21 Nov 202511:32 amCall for service7 min6d474245
Fri 21 Nov 20257:30 pmCall for service17 min2ce66abe
Fri 21 Nov 20259:47 pmEvents10 minaf121d22
Fri 21 Nov 202510:12 pmEvents12 minee24710e
Fri 21 Nov 202510:26 pmTraining and testing1 min 33 s77cfb9f1
Fri 21 Nov 202510:45 pmTraining and testing1 min 13 sb9e440a9
Fri 21 Nov 202510:52 pmEvents12 minf841ff89
Fri 21 Nov 202511:20 pmCall for service20 min50a75ea7
Sat 22 Nov 202512:02 amCall for service10 min5a825341
Sat 22 Nov 202512:29 amCall for service13 min1e2626b9
Sat 22 Nov 20251:38 amEvents7 minb1ab1a38
Sat 22 Nov 20251:54 amEvents19 minb576b804
Sat 22 Nov 20252:41 amEvents10 mine400f498
Thu 27 Nov 20259:01 amCall for service13 min2757fbdb
Thu 27 Nov 20252:42 pmCall for service11 min8ae08b45
Fri 28 Nov 20253:30 pmCall for service12 min1226fd38
Fri 28 Nov 20254:51 pmCall for service19 min8566bb34
Fri 28 Nov 20255:58 pmCall for service2 minca58e059
Fri 28 Nov 20258:43 pmCall for service3 min4507b731
Fri 28 Nov 20259:07 pmCall for service6 minb1a73ae4
Fri 28 Nov 20259:38 pmCall for service13 minf7d02dbf
Fri 28 Nov 202510:37 pmCall for service17 mindd9b4449

All 99 flights in November 2025. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

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.
  • Boundary. "Downtown" is a neighborhood polygon from Olmsted County GIS (Neighborhood Associations), licence "NOASSERTION". Boundary licence unconfirmed: the boundary is shown for orientation only.
  • A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.

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