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Rochester, Minnesota

East Side, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 33 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

33

drone flights crossed East Side.

33

of them in January 2026.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed East Side 33 times between 1 January 2026 and 31 January 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 January 2026.

33 of the 33 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 2026. 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.
East SideOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

27% 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 33 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service58%
  2. Training and testing21%
  3. Events15%
  4. Search6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Jan 202612:04 amCall for service8 min1e8d21b4
Thu 1 Jan 20262:59 pmCall for service10 min6d46fe7b
Thu 1 Jan 20265:37 pmEvents6 min47e32ff9
Thu 1 Jan 20266:57 pmCall for service10 min2ee0b6eb
Thu 1 Jan 202610:37 pmCall for service19 minc8c11762
Thu 1 Jan 202611:59 pmCall for service9 mince8da491
Wed 7 Jan 20262:20 pmCall for service11 min282744ca
Fri 9 Jan 202610:37 amCall for service6 minb78583dd
Fri 9 Jan 20263:11 pmCall for service10 min69aaaebd
Fri 9 Jan 20267:28 pmEvents13 min240c105e
Fri 9 Jan 20268:20 pmSearch18 minf4653e63
Fri 9 Jan 20269:31 pmCall for service8 min57b6cbae
Fri 9 Jan 202611:13 pmCall for service10 min1e2b42c7
Sun 11 Jan 20266:49 pmCall for service9 min27308d96
Tue 13 Jan 20268:07 pmTraining and testing4 minb914e157
Tue 13 Jan 20268:37 pmEvents9 min423c267b
Wed 14 Jan 20262:22 pmTraining and testing9 minb964be70
Wed 14 Jan 20263:03 pmTraining and testing14 min2fe085c0
Wed 14 Jan 20268:10 pmCall for service7 min1f146033
Wed 14 Jan 20269:00 pmCall for service2 min9774b401
Thu 15 Jan 202610:37 amCall for service10 min19516a3c
Thu 15 Jan 202612:16 pmTraining and testing11 min10f214c7
Sun 25 Jan 20269:23 pmCall for service9 min334c9e25
Sun 25 Jan 20269:36 pmCall for service0 s94a37086
Thu 29 Jan 20262:52 pmTraining and testing8 min0c413858
Thu 29 Jan 20264:00 pmTraining and testing5 minae6bcaf4
Fri 30 Jan 202610:09 pmSearch14 min5bfbd620
Fri 30 Jan 202611:34 pmCall for service9 minecb8739e
Sat 31 Jan 20268:10 pmTraining and testing3 mind3f5e80a
Sat 31 Jan 20268:21 pmEvents14 minc3201d2e
Sat 31 Jan 202610:05 pmEvents12 min327d5e6a
Sat 31 Jan 202611:40 pmCall for service8 min85139c11
Sat 31 Jan 202611:55 pmCall for service11 min4bfd2ed2

All 33 flights in January 2026. 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. "East Side" 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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