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Saint Paul, Minnesota · one day

Friday 3 July 2026

20 drone flights from St. Paul Police Department's published record.

20

drone flights over Saint Paul that day.

12:06 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:55 pm.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Saint Paul police drones flew 20 times on Friday 3 July 2026, the first at 12:06 am and the last at 11:55 pm CDT, by St. Paul Police Department's published record.

20 drawable flights of 20. 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. Not stated100%

Flights, in order

20 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
12:06 amNot stated13 min4c6c05eb
12:19 amNot stated14 min77002a07
12:38 amNot stated9 min698ee7d0
12:43 amNot stated8 minfa921cfc
12:51 amNot stated9 minacf66b4a
1:13 amNot stated11 mine03a80e5
11:01 amNot stated10 mine8a56ee7
1:07 pmNot stated12 min706bae06
2:18 pmNot stated9 mina56bda0a
5:37 pmNot stated6 min5ac9dd44
7:02 pmNot stated13 mince97b720
7:20 pmNot stated4 min6d95816c
8:44 pmNot stated13 minc693169a
10:12 pmNot stated17 min76c91bc6
10:19 pmNot stated11 min9cc7a1ca
10:45 pmNot stated8 mina95fab04
11:07 pmNot stated4 mine809657f
11:13 pmNot stated10 min18e310d1
11:38 pmNot stated18 min9972b357
11:55 pmNot stated11 min73ce3349

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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