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Rochester, Minnesota

Lowertown, May 2026Boundary licence unconfirmed

A neighborhood page. 39 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

39

drone flights crossed Lowertown.

39

of them in May 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lowertown 39 times between 1 May 2026 and 31 May 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 May 2026.

39 of the 39 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 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.
LowertownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

13% 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 39 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service62%
  2. Events15%
  3. Training and testing13%
  4. Search8%
  5. Other3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 1 May 20261:31 amCall for service14 min4dc0cb32
Fri 1 May 20264:57 pmTraining and testing14 min5928fc56
Sat 2 May 20261:16 amCall for service7 mind382594a
Sat 2 May 20262:35 pmOther10 min3ff551ee
Sat 2 May 20266:19 pmSearch11 min4b533664
Sat 2 May 20266:49 pmEvents10 min1b18ba53
Tue 5 May 20269:03 amCall for service12 mincff5b05a
Tue 5 May 20264:34 pmCall for service11 min6032942e
Tue 5 May 20267:10 pmEvents14 min0278cb9c
Wed 6 May 20263:41 pmCall for service14 min1bfedf17
Thu 7 May 20266:07 pmCall for service10 min2524ac38
Thu 7 May 20266:25 pmCall for service7 min475ad42d
Fri 8 May 20266:56 pmSearch11 min31c719c3
Tue 12 May 20268:11 amCall for service11 min7d151039
Wed 13 May 20268:02 amEvents7 min23dd96ca
Wed 13 May 20269:33 pmEvents9 min6450e1d7
Thu 14 May 20265:47 pmCall for service9 min371d9e81
Thu 14 May 20267:47 pmCall for service19 minf1b21a5c
Fri 15 May 20262:02 pmCall for service10 min23cb7882
Fri 15 May 20265:02 pmCall for service10 min75f4902a
Sat 16 May 20266:42 pmEvents7 mind3b7d90f
Tue 19 May 20269:54 amCall for service9 min6671456c
Tue 19 May 20261:49 pmCall for service7 min9b589eef
Wed 20 May 20265:23 pmCall for service14 mina3fdc9d5
Thu 21 May 20266:39 pmTraining and testing6 minb45c4f57
Thu 21 May 20267:06 pmTraining and testing16 minf033a870
Fri 22 May 20269:54 amCall for service12 min7cd719ea
Sat 23 May 202611:46 pmCall for service5 min05e00df8
Tue 26 May 202612:51 amCall for service12 min45f72fd9
Tue 26 May 20269:27 amSearch7 min15cff4f7
Wed 27 May 20267:29 amCall for service7 min6c1709bb
Wed 27 May 20268:30 amCall for service7 min98b0781c
Wed 27 May 202612:36 pmCall for service9 min4f5f517e
Wed 27 May 20267:28 pmEvents8 min1e89dc83
Thu 28 May 20261:47 pmTraining and testing15 min9ba1a4d6
Fri 29 May 20268:46 amCall for service12 mine7802337
Sat 30 May 20264:20 pmTraining and testing3 minee0f8acd
Sun 31 May 20261:22 amCall for service17 min082ed616
Sun 31 May 20263:34 pmCall for service18 mindb8965f5

All 39 flights in May 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. "Lowertown" 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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