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Rochester, Minnesota

East Side, October 2026

A neighborhood page. 11 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2026.

11

drone flights crossed East Side.

11

of them in October 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed East Side 11 times between 1 October 2026 and 7 October 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 7 October 2026.

11 of the 11 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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

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

64% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

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 11 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service55%
  2. Events36%
  3. Traffic and crashes9%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20262:42 amCall for service20 min3c3a53de
Fri 2 Oct 202611:10 pmCall for service13 minf4aadf7c
Sun 4 Oct 202612:36 amEvents5 min732004eb
Mon 5 Oct 20267:37 pmCall for service9 mind1f80ab5
Mon 5 Oct 202611:02 pmCall for service4 min16e453df
Tue 6 Oct 20264:35 amCall for service12 mineb9b7f64
Tue 6 Oct 20269:16 amTraffic and crashes12 minc790f7df
Tue 6 Oct 20264:36 pmEvents15 mine0a4e472
Tue 6 Oct 20267:26 pmCall for service12 min8c967fd0
Wed 7 Oct 20261:48 amEvents12 minb1d46932
Wed 7 Oct 20262:38 amEvents10 minf84d6a6a

All 11 flights in October 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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