I was watching military traffic for all of America earlier this evening and noticed a V22 Osprey squawking the callsign ANON appear in the list all of a sudden. First instinct was to get a pic with my phone.

Notice the HEX ID code AE6B96, that will be important shortly.

Here is the rest of the info for the aircraft at that time.

I first found the plane right before it landed. You'll notice in my original pic, it was at 700' and dropping.

As soon as it landed, they changed the callsign they were squawking to RUDY30 This activated my almonds even more... Wtf is an Osprey, a navy/marine transport VTOL, doing squawking ANON, and then RUDY30 once on the ground? Thus began my journey.

I immediately zoomed out to view the full flight path. Don't ask me what the orange/black triangle path is...I'm not that great with the website I was using yet, and it isn't the fun part anyway! See where it took off from? That's an awfully odd spot for a troop transporter regularly used for infil/exfil to be originating from...

Unfortunately, my dumb ass clicked the wrong thing while trying to screengrab the zoomed in point of origin, but I still managed to get a grab of where it was, just sans flight path trail. The earliest point in the path was approximately centered on screen. Since the aircraft had already stopped squawking, I was not able to reselect it to get the flight path to reappear. Oh well, I had enough data to continue investigating.

Of course, the next step was to hop on google maps and find the area. The two streets you see here are the same two in the top right of the previous image. I included a GPS tag on that street so you can find it yourself and look around. I couldn't find any other sign of civilization in the area closer to the origination point for ANON than these few pieces of property. Kinda looks like a compound of some sort to me...

Here is a zoomed out view of the area, showing that there really isn't much else going on and there is plenty of space for an Osprey to land to the SW of those properties.

Looking once again at the full flight path, you'll notice that they took a little pitstop at the Navy airstrip located on San Clemente Island, just west of San Diego.

Around this point in my investigation, I realized that there was a Cessna Citiation on short final approach to land at the same strip where the pitstop took place. If you pay attention to the times in the lower right corner of my pics, it will give you an idea of when all of this was happening. That Citation would have been taking off from Yuma to head for San Clemente right around the same time that the Osprey landed at Naval Base Coronado.

If you dig around on Google maps and look at the sat photos for the area around where ANON took off, it kinda looks like it may have been a pot grow op to me. One of the properties has either a lot of greenhouses, or a lot of solar panels. Can't tell for certain what. Pot farming is legal in California, but it wouldn't surprise me if there may have also been some human trafficking going on there as well. Idk. All I know is, a military flight that CLEARLY wanted one of us to catch it (ANON and RUDY, really? That's pretty clear as day...) took off while squawking ADSB instead of just IFF (another sign they wanted us to notice), dropped a "package" off at San Clemente, and another military Citation (small transport, less than 10 people) flew out to pick the package up.

I would LOVE to hear any ideas or theories you guys have. That GPS is 36.673485, -119.104618 if any of you wanna go poking your noses around.

So there you have it. Thanks for bearing with me slowly getting this finished. I'll try and have images uploaded and text pre-typed before I go telling any interesting stories in the future.